Obviously borrowing from the Grand Theft Auto games, Bully is a free-roam, do-what-you-want game (originally released 2 years ago on the PS2) where you are a 15 year-old boy who's been expelled from every school he's been to and gets dumped at Bullworth academy, the worst school in the country. You do missions, roam around the world around you and do the occasional side missions that will either give you new abilities, or give you cash.
Unfortunately, this game's nothing compared to Grand Theft Auto. The school/city feels somewhat closed in compared to other games of this nature, and the highlight of Grand Theft Auto, shooting guns and stealing cars, is missing from this underpowered Wii port. Also, the side missions are almost completely restricted to taking your classes, finding collectibles and learning new fighting moves, and while it's fun at first, it grows tedious fast.
These problems wouldn't be so bad if the graphics were good, but sadly, Bully falls short again. They seemed great on the PS2, but they haven't been improved at all for it's jump to Wii. The motion controls worked better than the graphics did, but they didn't work very well, either. It's difficult to land combos while fighting, and the classes that use motion controls feel a little unfair.
Bully has a great concept, and is worth a chance, but I don't care about the fact that everyone else is giving this game an 8+/10. I'm not afraid to say it. I don't think this game is very good. And besides, if I had to choose, I would wait a few more weeks for GTA IV. And if you just have a Wii, look for No More Heroes, that's a pretty good game similar to GTA. :)
Bully: Scholarship Edition was an Xbox 360 & Wii re-release of the PS2 classic. Still playable on modern consoles, it'll make you long for a sequel.
A sequel? More likely a remake as is the current trend? No point, everyone wants GTA VI.
It's a shame that basically all of Rockstar's catalogue apart from GTA and Red Dead is now, well, dead.
The R☆ of today is extremely unlikely to put out any project that isn't GTA because of the gaming climate and because GTA is stupidly self sustaining.
Gone are the days of a mainline title and a portable tie-in/standalone title of the same name just like publishers putting out multiple fighters at once.
Costs are too high and mainline titles have become too gargantuan to allow for "risks" on lesser titles that may not take off or sell.
Take Capcom for example, and SF6. We are unlikely to ever see a new installment of their other fighters like Rival School or Darkstalkers because SF6 is more popular, recognized and costly. A new Darkstalkers in the RE Engine would look sick as f*ck, and would visually be unlike any other fighter if done right. Sadly though, it's not as recognizable as SF and Capcom is unlikely to put so much on the line for something that might not catch.
If there’s to be a sequel it should be at the college/university level. Otherwise its just going to be a rehash of the same progression and story.
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I don’t think you should review a game on the Wii and ask them to wait until another game arrives on another system, what if the reader only owns a Wii, that wouldn’t be helpful to them.
Other than that good review overall.