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Bully Returns, So Does Controversy

by Kev Lochun on March 4, 2008 at 10:38 pm

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Bully: Scholarship Edition hits shelves in the US today (it’s out 7 March in the UK) on 360 and Wii, and (who would have thought?) someone’s pissed about it.

It’s a bit like Harry Potter– another school year starts and you know the shit is going to hit the fan. This year at Bullsworth Academy said “mud” is being flung by an international coalition of Teacher’s Unions spanning Canada, US, Britain, Australia and the Caribbean, according to the Globe and Mail newspaper. Canadian Teacher’s Association president Emma Noble told them:

“We’re asking retailers to be responsible. Yes, they can sell it [Bully] and make a buck out of this, but is this the kind of marketing that they want to be [doing], selling games that glorify violence?”

“What it does is it encourages kids to target other kids, to be a bully with other kids. This doesn’t help us as teachers in the work that we’re doing at school. It also targets teachers at the school as well.”

Not that there’s a great deal that hasn’t been seen before, since Scholarship Edition is an updated version of PS2’s Canis Canem Edit – which Take-Two says has some new single-player missions, multiplayer games, as well as updated graphics, dialogue, and music.

I can’t imagine that a few new missions are going to fundamentally change the game, and as for the minigames – footage is already making the rounds. Non-violent is the polite way of looking at it.

Source: Globe and Mail

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3 Comments »

  1. Jonathan Zungre
    on March 5, 2008 5:59 pm

    i just beat the PS2 version a week or so ago, and let me tell you, it’s a pretty slick game. Rockstar does everything with so much style.

    and also, Jimmy’s whole mission in the game is to make everyone “play nice”, no one bullying anyone. your missions have to do with defending kids from bullies, not being a bully to the weaker kids. although you do go about it in a very rockstar-esque way.

  2. Jonathan Zungre
    on March 5, 2008 6:03 pm

    Also: The Canadian Teachers Association seems to be doing some Bullying of their own.

    Stop trying to take Take Two’s lunch money!!!

  3. Noble
    on April 1, 2009 1:37 am

    helo! The babes are here! This is my sexiest site to visit. I make sure I am alone in case I get too hot. Post your favorite link here.

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