Rockstar Announces Bully ps2xbox
Posted 09:18am 10/05/05 by: trog
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Rockstar Games, renowned developers behind such titles as the Grand Theft Auto series, have announced a new original title called Bully for the PlayStation 2 and Xbox.
As a troublesome schoolboy, you'll laugh and cringe as you stand up to bullies, get picked on by teachers, play pranks on malicious kids, win or lose the girl, and ultimately learn to navigate the obstacles of the fictitious reform school, Bullworth Academy.
No other information is available yet, but the game will be demonstrated behind closed doors at E3.

Press release:
New York, NY- May 9, 2005 - Rockstar Games, the world-renowned publishing label of Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. (NASDAQ: TTWO) is proud to announce Bully for the PlayStation®2 computer entertainment system and Xbox® video game system from Microsoft. Bully takes the Rockstar tradition of groundbreaking, innovative, original gameplay and humorous tongue-in-cheek storytelling to an entirely new setting: the schoolyard. Bully is the brutally funny debut title from Rockstar Vancouver and is expected to hit retail shelves in October 2005. Bully will be shown behind closed doors in the Rockstar booth at E3 (324 South Hall).

"We are really excited about the first title to be developed by our Rockstar Vancouver studio," said Sam Houser, President of Rockstar Games. "We fought hard to keep this title under wraps for ages and I am thrilled that we can finally unveil it to people at E3."

As a troublesome schoolboy, you'll laugh and cringe as you stand up to bullies, get picked on by teachers, play pranks on malicious kids, win or lose the girl, and ultimately learn to navigate the obstacles of the fictitious reform school, Bullworth Academy.
Comments on this Article
Tue 10 May 05, 11:27am
WaLLy3K
Posted: Tue 10 May 05, 11:27am

Sounds like a Kiddies Corner game.. ie: not very good :P

Tue 10 May 05, 11:43am
Bill.From.Finance
Posted: Tue 10 May 05, 11:43am

for all those who went through school bullied and didnt do anything about it, now you can!! relive those teenage years and be who you werent. rockstar sure know who to target.

Tue 10 May 05, 11:44am
trog
Posted: Tue 10 May 05, 11:44am

Yeh, Rockstar are well-known for their childrens range

Tue 10 May 05, 12:26pm
Kommandant
Posted: Tue 10 May 05, 12:26pm

And here I was thinking you'd get to bring a Mac-10 to school :P

That'd be fun.

Tue 10 May 05, 12:51pm
kEEv3r
Posted: Tue 10 May 05, 12:51pm

You have a small brain WaLLy3K.

Tue 10 May 05, 1:02pm
Fury
Posted: Tue 10 May 05, 1:02pm

yeh mac 10's are overrated

p90's are all the rage now.

Tue 10 May 05, 6:15pm
Badomen
Posted: Tue 10 May 05, 6:15pm

LOL, u get to play some school nerd, the tartget of bullies...

Pass!

Tue 10 May 05, 11:17pm
bloodylegend
Posted: Tue 10 May 05, 11:17pm

Sims: At school.

Tue 10 May 05, 11:19pm
MackTheKnife
Posted: Tue 10 May 05, 11:19pm

Already the anti-game freaks are out in force.

Stolen from Anti-Gamer Angry Man Jack Thompson


Makers of Grand Theft Auto to Release The Bully Game, Featuring School Kids Beating One Another Up

A confidential video game industry source has informed Miami attorney and anti-violent video game advocate Jack Thompson that Take-Two Interactive’s Rockstar Games is working on a new violent video game called The Bully Game.

This new title, according to this deep industry source, will pit rival gangs against one another in a virtual reality school where they can mercilessly beat and harm one another, turning virtual schools into cauldrons of chaos.

Given the fact that video games spill virtual violence into reality, this schoolyard violence is not what America’s schools need right about now.

Today Jack Thompson is contacting the Bush Administration’s Department of Education to alert the President.

If the video game industry is allowed, unchecked, to continue to raise our children, then at this pace pretty soon “No Child Left Behind” will morph into “No Child Left Alive.”

President Bush’s oft-repeated mantra that the answer to the entertainment industry’s assault upon our children is that “parents need to be better parents” is an insufficient firewall against the above outrage coming to a school near you.

CONTACT Jack Thompson at 305-666-4366 for additional information.

Tue 10 May 05, 11:25pm
Laz
Posted: Tue 10 May 05, 11:25pm

Too bad kids are already being bullied, so they can't use this game as an excuse that their perfect little kids, who'd never done anything wrong until they played this MA/R rated game which they're not allowed to own/play anyway, have been corrupted by it and need to sue rockstar.

Tue 10 May 05, 11:39pm
EYEconfide
Posted: Tue 10 May 05, 11:39pm

Jack Thompson? Isn't he dead yet? :(

Wed 11 May 05, 1:13am
Yug
Posted: Wed 11 May 05, 1:13am

Quick! Alert the President! Rockstar are releasing another violent game!

Wed 11 May 05, 9:21am
TeenageIdol
Posted: Wed 11 May 05, 9:21am

Jack Thompson? Isn't he dead yet? :(


Jack Thompson the Miami lawyer not the Aussie actor read the second paragraph of the quoted article again you idiot

This sounds like it will be great for a one weekend hire.

Wed 22 Feb 06, 9:11pm
Fury
Posted: Wed 22 Feb 06, 9:11pm

I spy with my little eye, something beginning with D.

and ending in "umbass".

nice resurrection WG.

Wed 22 Feb 06, 9:13pm
zynasis
Posted: Wed 22 Feb 06, 9:13pm

times like this im glad i dont own a ps2.

Wed 22 Feb 06, 9:14pm
Fury
Posted: Wed 22 Feb 06, 9:14pm

times like may 2005?

Thu 23 Feb 06, 2:33am
MackTheKnife
Posted: Thu 23 Feb 06, 2:33am

seems to be a spate of dickheads reviving old threads.

Thu 23 Feb 06, 7:40am
D-Monk
Posted: Thu 23 Feb 06, 7:40am

whatever happened to this game anyways, still being made?

Sat 25 Feb 06, 6:09pm
PS2 Boy
Posted: Sat 25 Feb 06, 6:09pm

R* is still making it, but it has been prolonged to later this year.

Sat 25 Feb 06, 9:03pm
Favzer0
Posted: Sat 25 Feb 06, 9:03pm

i was like..>Wtf this game sounds familiar...wasnt there another one released?

Sun 26 Feb 06, 1:46am
Tsurani
Posted: Sun 26 Feb 06, 1:46am

Here come the women activist's waving banners of hypocricy like a proverbial stick!!! Ownard Christian Soldiers!!!

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