So why then are we here ten years on without even a sniff of Bully 2? After all there are plenty of reasons why we should see more of Jimmy. The game was a huge success and was well received by anyone who played it - and for good reason. In between attending various classes, you were also trying to bring peace to the school, learning how romance worked and setting up hilarious pranks. Bully, also known as Canis Canem Edit in the PAL region, is a third person action-adventure video game released by Rockstar Vancouver for the PlayStation 2. It told the story of James "Jimmy" Hopkins who's just been enrolled at a boarding school called Bullworth Academy, and although the game's title might suggest otherwise, our plucky hero is actually the bullied rather than the bully. Publishers of such popular games as Grand Theft Auto, Max Payne, Red Dead Redemption, L.A. A remastered version of the game, subtitled Scholarship Edition, was developed by Mad Doc Software and released on 4 March 2008 for Xbox 360 and Wii, and on 21 October 2008 for Microsoft Windows. The official home of Rockstar Games on Twitter.
It was released on 17 October 2006 for the PlayStation 2. Bully: Anniversary Edition is now available for both iOS and Android Rockstar Games and War Drums Studios are currently celebrating the games 10th. Not bad for the least violent game in Rockstar's roster. Bully (originally released in the PAL region as Canis Canem Edit) is an action-adventure video game developed by Rockstar Vancouver and published by Rockstar Games.
In the UK it was called Canis Canem Edit (that's "dog eat dog" in Latin, folks), not Bully, as it was actually censored by the British government.īritish Labour MP Keith Vaz tried to get it banned or at least reclassified as an 18-rated game before it was released, while Currys and PC World refused to sell the game altogether due to its "explicit link between violence and children". Although it looks like Rockstar Games is about to reveal Red Dead Redemption 2, today is actually the 10th anniversary of one of Rockstar's rather under-appreciated titles - Bully.