Bully causes Brit-troversy a year late and a pound short
by Alexander Sliwinski 
{ Jan 21st 2008 at 9:30AM }
Now that the game has been out for a while, is it too much to ask that critics play the game before commenting on it -- scratch that, of course it is. Anybody who has played Bully knows that it is a smart satire of boarding school and protagonist Jimmy Hopkins is clearly more of a lover than a fighter. We're just hoping that the Wii and Xbox 360 versions of Bully are precursors to a sequel announcement.
[Via GamePolitics]
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Chris @ Jan 21st 2008 9:41AM
Its only a matter of time until holorooms are invented and you can beat somebody to death over and over, but anyway sounds to me like the telegraph are trying to get som attention.
Nigeria @ Jan 21st 2008 9:42AM
The Telegraph is like a virgin attempting to sexually asphyxiate a deflated blow-up doll while not realising that the doll is deflated, or the doll is a doll.
This game should come out for £20-25 like Resident Evil 4. Even though I didn't buy Resident Evil 4.
bateleur @ Jan 21st 2008 9:53AM
Bear in mind that the Telegraph is exactly the kind of right wing paper whose readers want to read about this kind of "scandal". Feeling morally superior is their main hobby - no need for us to spoil their fun. It's not like any of them will ever even see the game, never mind play it.
Ignatius @ Jan 21st 2008 9:54AM
Sounds like a reference to that song, Day-late, Dollar-short.
Oh well.
copa @ Jan 21st 2008 10:02AM
Please tell me that you can use the Wiimote to initiate boy-on-boy kissing. I'll watch Fox news for a week just to count the number of on-air aneurysms.
"It's worse than Manhunt 2!!!"
samfish @ Jan 21st 2008 10:09AM
Of all the games to port to the Wii and 360, I'm not sure why the picked this one. No one was even interested in the first one and it wasn't exactly popping up on GotY lists or anything.
Cutty @ Jan 21st 2008 10:48AM
Bully was an awesome game, I thought.
DrXym @ Jan 21st 2008 10:19AM
The controversy over Bully was simply ridiculous. Stores like GAME had posters up warning people they had to show an ID to purchase it. Yet it would be trivial to pick up 20 or 30 games that were far more violent that Bully was at the same rating. I can understand why Manhunt attracts controversy but not this game. Bully has nothing that wasn't seen in games like Skooldaze practically 15 years ago.
heckthor @ Jan 21st 2008 10:41AM
Since i never cared for this game i'll just say: BRING ON OKAMI........ if any game was and is meant for Wii is OKAMI... Anybody that played it has had that in mind since the Wii came out, and THEY (DEVELOPER) better not mess it up... Well not that they can mess it up that BAD, but i mean that HOPEFULLY it won't be like Mortal Kombat: Armaggedon that the controls were just an AFTERTHOUGHT... oh, and whomever didn't play this game and likes EPIC STORY, GAMEPLAY, GRAPHICS, MUSIC and anything that can be EPIC in a game should BUY OKAMI... either on PS2 or Wii... OKAMI.
JakubK666 @ Jan 21st 2008 10:51AM
But that game is confusing...and it will plant the seed of confusion into the mind of our beloved youngsters :)
ThornedVenom @ Jan 21st 2008 5:48PM
What is that I hear? A game where you can use motion controls to control... a brush?!! A BRUSH?!! How DARE we allow our children play such "GAMES"?!!
You are a HORRIBLE parent.
Max @ Jan 21st 2008 11:41AM
I read this in the paper yesterday and it made me quite angry. So angry in fact that I just wrote to the charity that gave most of the quotes in the article, asking whether they had actually played the game. Write too! Their website is beatbullying.org
Dio @ Jan 21st 2008 2:45PM
UK: WE KNOW DRAMA