Bully

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***Bully***は、PAL地域では***Canis Canem Edit***とも呼ばれ、Rockstar Vancouverが2006年10月17日に米国で、2006年10月25日に英国でPlayStation 2向けにリリースしたサードパーソンアクションアドベンチャービデオゲームです。 Xboxバージョンは元々開発中でしたが、非公開の理由でキャンセルされました。 ゲームは、WiiとXbox 360では2008年3月4日、PCでは2008年10月24日に、強化されたグラフィック、新機能、キャラクターを備えた***Bully: Scholarship Edition***として再リリースされました。 プレイステーション2版のゲームは、限定版のコミックと、ゲームで使用されているものと同じスタイルのドッジボールが含まれ、*Bully*という単語がエンボス加工された特別版として米国でも入手できます。

2012年12月18日、BullyはPlayStation StoreのPlayStation 3用の*PS2クラシック*で再リリースされ、2016年3月22日の時点で、後に用のダウンロード可能な強化されたPlayStation 2クラシックバージョン用のPlayStation 4の経由PlayStation Network、フレームレートとグラフィック解像度が強化されています。*Scholarship Edition*の更新版、タイトルは***Anniversary Edition***、War Drum Studiosによって開発され、2016年12月8日にAndroidおよびiOS向けにリリースされました。

## Gameplay

*Bully* is an open world sandbox action-adventure game set in a school environment. The player takes control of a 15 year old teenage rebel ジェームズ・“ジミー”・ホプキンス, who from the opening cutscene is revealed to be a difficult student with a turbulent background. The game concerns the events that follow Jimmy being dropped off at Bullworth Academy, a fictional boarding school in New England. The player is free to explore the school campus and town, or to complete the main missions. The game makes extensive use of minigames. Some are used to earn money, others to improve Jimmy's abilities.

School classes themselves are done in the form of minigames, broken into five levels of increasing difficulty. English, for example, is a word scramble minigame, and as Jimmy completes the level, he learns to apologize to bullies, deliver better taunts, apologize to Prefects and finally to apologize to the police.

Jimmy has a multitude of weapons available, although they tend to run along the lines of things a school boy might actually attain, such as slingshots, bags of marbles, stink bombs, and later in the game, a bottle rocket launcher and a spud cannon. He also has an assortment of vehicles to operate — mainly bicycles with different abilities, but also a moped, a go-kart, a skateboard and on rare occasions, a lawn mower.

## Setting

The game takes place at Bullworth Academy, a fictional independent boarding school in the New England area of the United States. Jimmy ends up enrolled in the school when his newly married mother and fifth stepfather go on a year-long honeymoon cruise. The school is located in the also fictional town of Bullworth, which resembles Connecticut (this would also explain the high prevalence of 'Old money' and 'Nouveau Riche' influences). The school itself is a classical neo-gothic design and is similar to many other public schools and colleges in the United Kingdom and New England, in particular Fettes College in Edinburgh.

### Time

The timeline of the game is vastly unclear. The developers deliberately included influences of various periods of time to make the game more inclusive and less of a period piece. Cars and architecture feature design influences going back to the 1970s, 1980s, or 1990s but there are also other objects hinting at a setting sometime in the 2000s.

* Future Street Race 2165, an arcade video game found in the Boys' Dorm, displays the year 1995.
* School sports flags show the school as champions as recently as 1998-1999.
* A poster can be seen in the Jock Clubhouse that dates to 2005, and another to 2007.
* The year 2007 can be seen on notices on the wall of the Boys' Dorm.
* Mr Galloway alludes to surfing "dubious sites" on the internet. Additionally, two desktop computers that resemble computers seen in the 1990's and early 2000's can be found in the basement bedroom of Dragon's Wing Comics.
* In contrast to the above, the School Library has a number of computers that closely resemble the early 1980s Commodore Educator 64.
* A line of Bryce Montrose's dialogue suggests that the game specifically takes place in the 2000s.
* On the game's website, an introduction written by Miss Danvers welcomed students to the "2006 term" at Bullworth Academy. There were other allusions to 2006 on the website. However, because there are numerous contradictions between the website and the game itself, this cannot be taken as proof that *Bully* took place in 2006 and 2007.

Because of the contradicting factors, it is quite impossible to pin the game as taking place in a specific era. This was specifically intended by the developers, who wanted to create a timeless atmosphere to allow players to relate the game with their own days in school.

## Plot summary

* Chapter 1: Making New Friends and Enemies: Jimmy comes to Bullworth Academy and immediately runs into trouble with the Bullies.
* Chapter 2: Rich Kid Blues: Jimmy is now more popular, but he must deal with the spoiled Preppies.
* Chapter 3: Love Makes the World Go Around: Jimmy gets mixed in with the love affairs of Johnny Vincent, leader of the Greasers, and his girlfriend Lola Lombardi.
* Chapter 4: A Healthy Mind is a Healthy Body and Other Lies: Jimmy decides to take on the Jocks, but he first needs to convince the Nerds to help him.
* Chapter 5: The Fall and Rise of Jimmy Hopkins, Aged 15: Jimmy, after briefly enjoying his power as king of Bullworth Academy, is expelled. He has to clear his name and get re-enrolled back into the Academy while regaining control of the cliques.
* Chapter 6: Endless Summer: Jimmy can tie up any loose ends, such as finishing races, finding collectibles, etc.

## キャラクター

*キャラクターを見る*
The game focuses on Bullworth's newest student, Jimmy Hopkins. As he advances through his academic career at Bullworth Academy, he may interact with the school's students and teachers, as well as people from the neighboring districts, many of whom will give him errands to complete. He is greeted by Gary Smith, a scheming, unstable sociopath and Pete Kowalski, a shy student who has yet to make any friends. Jimmy has to navigate his way through the five cliques at the school — the Bullies, Nerds, Preppies, Greasers and Jocks — as well as the Townie kids, the school faculty and all the other adult townsfolk. Unlike other games from Rockstar, no two characters in *Bully* are the same, and every character has their own name, personality, and appearance.

 ファイル:1l.jpg  Most of the voice actors of the teenagers and kids were in their late teens and early twenties to make the game's dialogue feel as realistic as possible.

### Voice Acting

The game's voice cast are made mostly of 'off-the-street' actors and actresses, some of which had prior roles in other Rockstar titles like *Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas*, or credits in television programmes. Some of them went on to take on other acting roles, while *Bully* remains the only role for others.

## Development

Bully possibly started development around 2003 by Rockstar Vancouver when they were known as Barking Dog Studios. When they were purchased by Rockstar Games, development stepped up further. Many very low quality beta models of characters can be found within the game files from a very early version of the game.
Early information released by Take-Two Interactive seemed to indicate that the player would be taking the role of a bully, and screenshots printed in *Electronic Gaming Monthly* showed the player-controlled antagonist administering a swirlie and throwing a punch at another student. The game uses an advanced *Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas* engine through Renderware. Rockstar Vancouver also decided to make every student in the school have a unique appearance and, within programming limitations, personality. While many features had been completely new, there are a considerable amount of content and features recycled from *Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas* such as certain game mechanics, some in-game models including cars, sounds and a few other miscellaneous details.

## Reception

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*Bully* has received generally positive reviews from critics. The game received ratings of 8.9/10 from IGN, 9.0/10 from Games Radar, a perfect 10/10 from 1UP.com, 8.7/10 from GameSpot, 5/5 from JIVE Magazine, 8.75/10 from VGRC.net, a 5/5 from X-Play, and made the Top 10 Games of '06 in *PlayStation Magazine*. *Canis Canem Edit* also got 9/10 from *OPS2* Magazine. Critics generally praised the game's storyline, while they complained about particular stealth missions, as well as the camera. Critics also noted that the game is substantially easier than veterans of the *Grand Theft Auto* series (Rockstar's flagship titles) would expect.

### Awards

* Won IGN's award for Best PlayStation 2 Action Game.
* Won GameSpot's award for Best Original Music.
* Finalist for GameSpot's Game of the Year 2006
* Gaming Target - 52 Games We'll Still Be Playing From 2006 selection
* Came in top ten of best PlayStation 2 game of the year.
* Became number #43 in the top 100 games of all time in IGN.

### Reception

Both versions of the game generally received positive reviews with IGN giving the Wii version an 8/10, while the Xbox 360 version received 8.7/10. 1up.com gave the Wii version an A grade.

The Xbox 360 version of *Bully: Scholarship Edition* was found to be unstable on some players' consoles, resulting in glitches, crashes and performance issues. Rockstar have promised to have a patch addressing these issues by the week of March 10, 2008. On Thursday March 20th, a patch was released via Xbox Live, but some initial reports claim to have continued or worsened problems. GameSpot, a game review website which bases its reviews on the initial public release, took the glitches into account and marked the 360 version of the *Scholarship Edition* down to a 7/10, a full point lower than the Wii version, which received an 8.

## Gallery

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## Soundtrack

 ファイル:Bully - Soundtrack Welcome to Bullworth
## Sequel

*Main article: Bully 2*
While not yet confirmed, there have been many hints made by Rockstar Games that a sequel would be released. Dan Houser said in 2012 that after Max Payne 3, Bully 2 was a possibility. In July 2013, Rockstar Games filed trademark renewals for the franchise sparking more rumors of the development to the game.
## See also

* Bully Trivia
* Myths in Bully

## References

1. ↑ Bully Mysteries - What Year Is Bully Set In?
2. ↑ Building a Better Bully

## External links

* Official *Bully* Homepage
* Official Canis Canem Edit Homepage
* Press Release by Take Two Interactive
* Website with videos of missions in Bully and Bully: SE
* BBC News article about the controversy
* Youth Council of Ireland wants boycott of “shocking" game
* Information about the Bully Soundtrack album, composed by Shawn Lee
* Voices and Choices: A Conversation with Shawn Lee