Bully was a great entry in the sandbox style that Rockstar have perfected of late – based on events in a school rather than the usual gangster environment that the Grand Theft Auto titles prefer – although Bully is currently unavailable on PlayStation 3 (and actually on sale on the 360 today).
However, a recent ESRB rating has finally locked the game down for Sony’s console, citing “Crude Humor, Language, Sexual Themes, Use of Alcohol and Tobacco, Violence” and awarding it a Teen rating – that’s not unexpected, but the rating is welcome.
Chances are it’s the PS2 version (as is currently the norm with Rockstar) rather than a port of the Xbox 360 version, but seeing as any version is better than no version at all, this can only be good news.
Other Rockstar titles recently awarded a rating include Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories, the Midnight Club series and Red Dead Revolver. Make of that what you will…
Via Twitter.
colmshan1990
Vice City Stories is fantastic, don’t miss out on that guys.
The Lone Steven
I remeber Bully being excellent but it was basically GTA Junior without the things that make GTA, GTA. Shame that there don’t seem to be any plans for a sequel.
I think GTA:VCS was a bit of a let down due to it being the next GTA game that i played after GTA:SA and it didn’t live up to it but i admit, i was a bit harsh as it’s a PSP game ported to the PS2 and looking back, it’s excellent. Story is excellent and doesn’t feel the need to swear every few seconds unlike SA. I did hear rumours of GTA:SA stories but i suspect they either canned it or had no plans to do that. That and GTA4 was being developed at the time. Predict that they will be £12 each.
3shirts
Bully is a fantastic game. Really surprised me how good it was after I waded through the bullshit in the media about it. Clearly none of them had actually played it cos the plot is very non-bullying
McProley
Fully agree mate. I missed out on it in the PS2 days but i got it on steam a year or so ago for pittance. its cracking
MadBoJangles
I played Bully to death on 360, took me forever to get 100% completion (I was missing 1 lawnmowing job).
Great great game.
Joshua Hood
I’ll be intrigued to see what’s going in with the Stories game there – as far as I know, not a single game has ever actually been released using Sony’s PSP Remaster tools for PS3 (the GoW Origins collection was before the tools were released).
colmshan1990
It was ported to PS2 as far as I remember, so they may just be porting the port rather than porting the PSP game.
Joshua Hood
Oh shit yeah, course it was. My bad!
Tomhlord
Why is it listed as ‘Bully’ and not ‘Canis Canem Edit’ if it is the PS2 version?
Alex C
Isn’t Bully the US name?
Tomhlord
Ah yes, so it is.
colmshan1990
It’s ‘Bully’ on Steam for me…
Tomhlord
Yup, as Alex says, Bully was the US name for the PS2 game. It was Canis Canem Edit for PAL on PS2. Then Bully again for Wii, 360 & PC.
Sab7786
Bully was a great game, would love to play it again.
YOURMUMANDME
Loved Canis Canem Edit, first thing my Mrs ever gifted me and the 3rd last game I ever played on my PS2 before Shadow of the Colossus and Dragon Quest VIII.
Life was easy back then …
yannickvanloon
Niceee! I need to play Bully and Red dead revolver at my Ps3! I have vice city stories already as psp version at my Ps Vita :)
fattyuk
day 1 purchases from me!
R1MJAW
Both games are up on the US store now as part of today’s update along with Midnight Club 3 DUB Edition Remix … $9.99 each.