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dmullig2's Bully (PS2)
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| [September 16, 2012 03:18:41 PM]
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Recently, I decided to play Bully again. Upon hearing about it in class, I decided to try to find my copy and play it for myself. When I popped it in, it took me back to the days of playing Grand Theft Auto and how fun that was. Bully is very similar to Grand Theft Auto, as Rockstar Studios made them both. However, the biggest difference was its setting. Grand Theft Auto would take place in a city, while Bully took place in a high school environment.
This change in environment really sets the game apart from GTA. With a school setting, the game sets up new mechanics that might otherwise never make it into a game like GTA. These game mechanics come in the form of mini-games, which represent different classes that the player must take. Each mini-game is a little different. There are world jumbles, quick time events, and even a game resembling the classic arcade game Qix. All these mini-games are added into a game that already borrows from many genres.
Because it borrows heavily from GTA, it in turn, borrows from many other games. The Grand Theft Auto series has different genres attached to it, such as a driving game, an action game, and many others. GTA is also known for adding mini-games as well, but Bully outdoes that game in the mini-game department. Bully has races, which could attribute it as a racing game. There are fights where it pulls from the fighting game genre.
Bully even has a slight RPG system, with the intermingling with different factions, or cliques as the game calls it. The player can associate with the jock group, or the nerd group just by doing simple missions for them. With all these different genres that are put in the game, it might seem overwhelming and maybe lacking focus. However, this game does an excellent job giving the player the basic GTA formula while also adding some fun mini-games that branch from different genres.
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dmullig2's Bully (PS2)
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Current Status: Playing
GameLog started on: Sunday 16 September, 2012
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