Bully: Scholarship Edition

just finished the main story today and gosh i loved playing this game so much. the variety of gameplay styles across this game's runtime makes it so incredibly fun and engaging, every mission/quest has something unique that makes it memorable and challenging. the dialogue and characters are laugh-out-loud hilarious and easy to get attached to, even when you're just passing by NPCs. incredibly advanced for its time with its social commentary, functionally bisexual protagonist, mechanics, and customization availability. the story of this game embraces traditional school clique stereotypes by turning the absurdity up to 100 and contrasting this separation with a central message and protagonist that defy disunity. the setting(s) of this game is extremely vast and fun to traverse; you will learn the map's layout intuitively over time, and the progression of the story including more and more locations is a really helpful way to teach the player about how to navigate Bullworth and other nearby towns. each location has its own feel and characters that prefer to roam there whilst remaining cohesive compared to other locations. this is not a super *hard* game but there were definitely times that i felt extremely challenged whether it be due to combat, navigation, or patience; never once, though, was this game not super fun to me despite any of that. my only complaint has nothing to do with how this game was made, it's just old and thus *will* crash on you mid-mission, the audio mixing is not great at times, and the controls can be a bit finnicky when you're trying to make precise movements. there are probably setups to optimize the crashing, and I had subtitles on for dialogue the entire game. Jimmy Hopkins is no doubt one of my favorite protagonists or characters in any form of fiction. i really wish video games were still made this thoroughly with this much love. this game has really only aged well, and will always be a classic.

if you can get it to work, definitely worth it (download silent patch to help with some issues, may not fix all of them depending on your luck)

i feel like the story has a few problems but i like it nonetheless
the fighting is fun for me

Very entertaining. As always, Rockstars comes in clutch

Masterpiece but there is a problem with window 10 users the game crashes 90% of the time you try to play it but overall good game and there are so many good mods for this game like super mod 4 by daboss so yeah 9/10

The size of the map feels excellent. I enjoyed the smaller scope that could be readily traversed using a skateboard or bicycle, and different sections unlocking as the story progressed kept things feeling fresh throughout the entire game. The setting of a New England prep school and its surrounding town, from wealthy residential homes to a sprawling industrial park, felt wonderfully unique and varied, and the reduced scope allows for more intimacy within. All NPCs are named, and over time you come to recognize them. You can talk to all of them as well, choosing either to greet or insult, with the ability to learn more biting taunts and effective apologies through classes.

The gameplay is very enjoyable. At its core, this is a fighting game with satisfying and fluid combat that places a variety of moves, tools, and weapons in the player’s hands. Time management also comes into play, with each day being a new chance to weigh the benefits of hanging around campus, interacting with students, and attending your classes against getting on your skateboard and rolling right out the front gate as soon as you get out of bed. Ditching school, raising hell in the yard and surrounding town, and dodging prefects and police is always a recipe for fun, but attending classes or doing favors for students and townsfolk also yields tangible and often substantial rewards.

Shawn Lee’s fantastic soundtrack defines a great deal of the game’s atmosphere, perfectly capturing the essence of youthful mischief, or elevating the energy of brawls by giving each clique unique fighting music. The simpler, somewhat cartoonish graphics are great, and feel fitting for the game’s story and tone. As much as I enjoy a beautiful, massive game like Red Dead 2, or await GTA 6, I also have a lot of love for Bully, and hope to one day see a sequel, and the occasional return to games of a similar scope by Rockstar.

Worst PC port I've ever seen. Classic Rockstar

Bad camera even with controller. There are bugs that affect the experience. The game's FPS is locked at 30 but sometimes drops, even if you download a 60fps fix, the game becomes pure bug.

I absolutely love Bully but the port is absolutely abysmal. Even with all the community fixes still could barely play the game without crashes.

A fun classic. Play a junior gangster in highschool, in classic GTA style.
Gives you a hard taste of boarding school life. A minor simulation to experience an alternative school life from your own.
Rekindle your childhood memories and compare. A great flashback, to make your adult life seem that much sweeter.
Save often it's a bit unstable and use a controller the layout is weird.

The original Bully was a great game but this port for Steam is unfortunately a buggy mess, it's literally unplayable on newer operation systems.

good game. feels kind of outdated with a little bit of janky controls and mechanics, but is bearable. the game has a bug which crashes the game quiet a lot, had to download a patch to fix it. the story is descent, some missions are unique and creative. it is a tedious job to run through the map as the skateboard you are given is tough to ride without crashes. to sum it up, a fairly unique title from rockstar games and worthy of giving a try.

really fun game, good story, characters that you love to hate, solid enough gameplay for a game about kids in a school bullying each other, honestly really fun.


for the 60 minutes that the game can handle without crashing to desktop. if you buy this, save often.

Jesus christ this game crashes 99% of the time, I have used commands, mods you name it to try and fix it but nothing works. This game is a lost cause and is just trash. Horribly optimized

This game is ridiculously fun. My only problem with it is the crashes. The game itself is one of the more interesting experiences I have had in gaming. Needs a sequel.

been playing this since 2013, completed this game like 4 times, gotta say the story 9/10 action 8.5/10 overall its a 9/10 i wish they come out with dlc and updates but i guess its a lost cause

I’ve always wanted to play it ever since I saw some gameplays of it. But in my town where I grew up I couldn’t find this game anywhere so I forgot about it. Few weeks ago I was searching what should I play after Persona 5 and found this gem on Steam, so I instantly bought it because I wanted something more simple and short. Finally after more than 15 years I got to experience this title and let me say that it didn’t age like milk at all.

Bully takes place in the Bullworth academy. Where Jimmy Hopkins (the main character) ,who was previously expelled from seven schools, is sent there as a last chance to avoid juvenile detention. From the start he is highly advised to behave and stay in the line, but the Bullworth academy’s nature doesn’t really allow that. Because in order to survive you gotta be tough and do some bad things in order to earn your respect among of all the students and rule the school.

The whole story is told in a lot of short and fun quests and its quality is pretty consistent throughout the whole game. Don’t expect nothing super complex and mind blowing, because this game is all about feeling the vibes. That is perfectly fine and the game excels in it. I must say, even tho the story is not super complex, all the characters that you meet are awesome and the dialogs are very well written.

The game is intertwined with a lot of fun little mini games, the main ones and most important are classes. They are always twice a day and are well designed so they don’t really take a lot of your time. I enjoyed attending most of the classes because every subject unlocks something new every time you succeed. In general I found a lot of the mini games spread around the game being fun, but I didn’t complete all of them on 100%, because they tend to get repetitive after a while.

The main thing that I was most skeptical about was how the game holds up till these days. But I must say that I am quite satisfied. Yes the game has downturns, some bigger than others. First one being that the game only runs on 30 fps, but I don’t really mind that. While the second one and more major is that the game crashes a lot and there is now way how to predict it. So after every progress you have to rush to the nearest save location. I heard that it can be fixed after installing some fan-made patch. But this problem occurs only on PC version.

As for the graphics, they are dated, but the game still looks good and it adds to the charm.

Moving to some gameplay points, the map is big but there are some shortcuts so you don’t travel for a long time. I would say that it is well made map yet still the commuting to task gets boring once you try to collect every collectible. I also hate the sprinting mechanic that allows you to sprint only if you spam the sprint button. In a game that has a bigger map and fetch quests, you will spend half of the time button mashing and that is annoying if you play more than two or three hours per session. As for the main feature that is the fighting, I must say I enjoyed it. The game offers plenty of fun combos that you can chain together making the fights pretty short which in this case is a good thing. There were only few instances where the fight wasn’t that fun, such as in some boss fights. Where I opted to completely different strategy and avoided close combat, because the ranged weapons are extremely overpowered. Some might say that it’s a bad thing, but I think that it allows other not so experienced players to have fun and easily complete the game without loosing their hair.

In conclusion I really enjoyed playing Bully. To me it somehow felt relaxing and served as a perfect cozy game to play after work. I would love it to get a remastered edition but unfortunately nowadays this game would get canceled for being what it is. I guess I will have to settle down with replaying it every now and then.

This game is very well written and stands as one of the best games of it's era. This port of it in particular has a tendency to crash randomly, which is a shame, but I still play it because of how encapsulating it's story is.

This is such an old gem. I LOVED playing this on PS2 and it was nice to give her some playtime as good ole Jimmy once again. Simple but fun. Just a good classic if you have never played it I recommend it. When in doubt SAVE. I save after missions and between classes. But I'm trying not to fail any classes on this play through. Good luck bullying the kids! lol

i like to jump high school kids and beat them up nice game 10/10

such a fun good game btw scholarship means university

It may be the nostalgia talking here, but I loved this game back then, and I still love it now. It has always been one of my top favourite games. These types of genre of games takes so much time and money, but gosh do they do their best with it. So much to love about this game, I just love it. Happy to buy it myself and forever cherish it. Thanks to my bother who introduced me to this game, love for all!

Gary must be behind all of the glitches in this game...

This game perform well in my low end laptop but the game close automatically. I dont know why and what i do.
Not Running Continuously automatically close over a period of time repeatedly.

This game is unplayable without community patches. Horrible port

Bully: Scholarship Edition (Steam) – Fantastic game, awful port. Constant bugs and crashes made it unplayable for me on PC, which is a shame because this one hits hard on the nostalgia. The music is amazing — that weird little soundtrack sticks in your head for years. Still one of Rockstar’s most unique and charming games. If you can get it working, it’s a blast. Definitely deserves a sequel or a proper remake that doesn’t self-destruct on launch.

Bully: Scholarship Edition is a pretty good Adventure open world game and it’s not really surprising since this is made by Rockstar, although it does have some flaws that holds it back from being really great that’s with this port of this game, anyway let's talk about the story.

15-year-old Jimmy Hopkins has it rough from being kicked out of seven different schools, his mom being married for the fifth time and now he's headed to Bullworth Academy considered to be one of the worst private schools in the country.

Jimmy is not a bad kid he can be a bit of a jackass and he has his own issues but despite him looking like a bully, he actually is a pretty good person who stands up to bullies, but as soon as he arrives at Bullworth the young man's going to be put to the test as he's going to be made to face the different clicks of the school, the bullies, the abusers and the manipulative psycho leading practically all of them.

Now the likes, the story is very good it does have a lot of plotholes though, but that was due to cut content, but anyway the story has a lot of good twists and turns, interesting missions and well-written characters and despite the name of the game being called bully your not a bully it's actually about fighting against bullies whether their kids or adults, it also has a bit of a heartfelt message which I found good, it feels like a good indicator in the kind of storytelling Rockstar would be famous for with their Red Dead Redemption games and the kind of messaging it has while still being a fun game, basically this game’s story is a sort of in between old Rockstar to new Rockstar. There’s also plenty of memorable moments and some pretty memorable dialogue, also the game can be quite funny I mean what other game can let you knee a little person dressed as an elf in the balls.

The gameplay is very good it's like their other games like Grand Theft Auto, with traveling around the open world doing missions as well as the main story with plenty of fun mini games you can do, but what helps this to stand out from their previous works is the gameplay, while it is generally the same you're not going to have access to guns and the like, the arsenal you have is more juvenile but I don't mean that as an insult, like instead of guns you can have a slingshot, marbles and a graffiti can, stuff you suspect a classic bully to have, hell the only gun you have is probably the firework Cannon and my personal favorite the potato gun.

Anyway you mainly deal with opposition with classical fisticuffs, punching, kicking and as you advance those the game you can learn new moves like kneeing someone in the groin, you can also improve your character via lessons since Jimmy is a kid he has to go to school but each class you take you can learn different moves or things to improve your characters skills or how to traverse the world. There's also plenty of really good side missions and mini games that really help break up the monotony of the main story.

The characters are all really good very well written with their own unique personalities I think my favorite characters has to be Jimmy yeah he can be a bit of a jerk, but he's actually a very nice kid and he just wants to have a nice quiet time at school, but he gets pulled into the insanity of Bullworth it feels like what if a real person was just dragged into a rockstar game and deal with all kinds of crazy people that’s in those games, he's also the kind of kid that can just roll with the punches and not afraid to get his hands dirty.

I also like Pete he was a good side character he's generally a sweet kid who's just wants friends, I like Gary as he's just a crazy over the top villain that wouldn't be out of place in a GTA game, I liked Johnny the leader of the greasers as he was cool he feels like a '50s motorcycle punk/delinquent movie somehow got transported to the modern world.

The graphics are good for the time this game was released, very detailed with a nice set of colors, scenery and detail that makes you stop and stare sometimes. The levels are very good and quite diverse with each part of bullworth from the school and the town feels like a real place, it’s very distinct and give good incentives to explore every inch of it. The music is very good some nice tracks; the voice acting is very good, there are some parts that do feel a bit phoned in here and there, but other than that it's very well done and each voice actor does their best.

Now the dislikes, now as I said this is somewhat of a bad port in my opening and it's true, when I first started the game it had a real bad crashing problem, there is a fix I was able to use that at least stopped the crash or more precisely the crashing message to appear, unfortunately another big problem is that the game just randomly shuts off like you could be playing it for like a few hours or even like 15 to 20 minutes and for some reason the game just shuts off for no reason, I don't know why I never could get it fixed.

Also I don't know if this is my controller or could be the game itself sometimes when I was opening like the pause menu it would open and close like real fast sort of like flicker open and I would have to click a few times before it could finally open, it also affected on how I saved, like I accidentally deleted my save file which made me have to start the whole game again. So I suggest when you save the game you make two save files instead of one, also unplug and then replug your controller that seemed to correct the issue for me.

There is also a lot of plotholes in the story, like consider the villain Gary He's supposed to be this big integral part, but he only shows up in the first chapter, then one time in the second chapter and we don't see him again until the Final Chapter, I mean his presence is felt throughout the school but I always wondered like where is he I mean he's supposed to be going to the school and we don't see him.

But again like I said these plot holes came about because of a lot of cut content. I also would have liked a few extra missions after you beat the main game, like what they did after Red Dead Redemption. Just a little warning there are a few missions that do feel gross and also feel like a contradiction to Jimmy's character, the missions are one stealing panties and another mission where you have to take pictures of an unsuspecting teenager and one were you roofy a unsuspecting teacher to help the lunch lady get with him. Rockstar has said it was a different time but even so that feels like a poor excuse and again these missions feel kind of out of character for Jimmy to do. Finally the game doesn't have any achievements which definitely felt like it was needed.

So now that is done Bully: Scholarship Edition is a pretty good Adventure open world game and it’s not really surprising since this is made by Rockstar, although it does have some flaws that holds it back from being really great that’s with this port of this game, it has a very good story, very good gameplay and really good characters, so I do recommend this game, but I do recommend getting it when it’s on sale and have a lot of patience and you may have to fiddle with it to make it work.

Great game, but mods & endless fixes do not solve the crashing issues. Rockstar needs to update the port.

Buy the PS2 or Xbox 360 versions.

The original Bully is great! But i can't recomend this one because the lack of checkpoints in missions can be freaking infuriating, some missions can be easily failed, and sometimes the game just crashes right when you're close to finish a long mission, making you have to replay the whole thing.

when having shadows and anti aliasing (maxed out 8) on i experienced crashes but other than that the game plays very good.

good game to play. I would suggest looking at the work you'll have to put in before buying this it is a very great game but it dose have problems where it will crash randomly makes sense since the game came out in 2006. the story holds up really good but you'll have to download some patches to fix the game from crashing and i would suggest buying a xbox controller keyboard and mouse will give you pains of child birth.

this game is the best nostalgic game ever made by rockstar, make sure to try it out

It's very good, but it crashes very often, fortunately there are mods that solve that problem, one of them is Silent Patch and that's the one I use.

I really like this game, but I CANNOT recommend the steam/pc version at all.

This game is buggy as hell. Crashing, random freezing and cutscenes bugging out, making me lose progress are some of the reasons why this game is really getting on my nerves. I just lost 3 hours of progress, because a cutscene bugged out, essentially soft locking me (I wasn't able to do anything, couldn't move. I just had to watch Jimmy stand there.)

Yes, that's totally on me for not saving every single time I finished something... But that shouldn't even happen in the first place. And yes, I have the Silent Patch installed.

If you want to play Bully, play it on ANYTHING else other than pc, please.
[P.S. the keyboard and mouse controls are horrid as well...]

Very simple and addictive game! Good storyline and character development. Mechanics take some getting used to though.

Buggy sadly, get a rom. Even with the work arounds there are lots of soft locks.

this game is great for people who want to be a public menace witout repercussions in real life

The game is awesome. We don't see games like this these days because society today has become sensitive to absolutely everything. I would love to see Bully2 but I don't think it will ever happen.
I'm sadly tho that I had to refund it cuz it doesn't start. I don't know whats the problem but the memories from when I played it as a child will be forever in my heart

Had to download some shit to get it working, without the game crashing every 10 minutes.

But when I fixed the problem, I had a lot of fun with this game.
I like the very simple but engaging story.
It's just a funny adventure game with similarities to the GTA mission structures, In general this game has more similarities to GTA then you might think, (no wonder coming from the same devs).
The different subject classes had some cool mini games (I suck at geography).
What I didn't like about the game was the old feeling movement and kinda repetitive gameplay.

Still, the game is a 7/10 for me.
Boink!

Such a great game.. shame to see it so buggy. worth if you get it on the cheap and constantly saving lol

BULLY IS A HAVE TO PLAY GAME! its childhood game but dose keep crashing on windows ten? any known fixes

🔔 Um verdadeiro absurdo esse jogo estar com as análises ''Muito Positivas'', Bully em si é um jogo 10/10, joguei muito quando era criança mas finalmente joguei do início ao fim, e claro, crashando tantas vezes que não consigo nem contar nos dedos das mãos. Há mods que ajudam e tentar evitar isso de acontecer, mas mesmo assim, sofri vários! Pra quem quiser estressar e tentar zerar o game na Steam, recomendo criar o hábito de salvar bastante, ter paciência (e tempo), e procurar pelo Silent Patch, ele ajuda nesses crashs, mas nada garantido. Busquei maneiras e maneiras de tentar melhorar isso, e mesmo assim rodou feito uma bomba atômica, atente na hora de comprar por que é repleto de problemas.

This game is worth buying the story combined with all the other stuff you can do is going to make playing worth the money/time. The only really frustrating thing is that the game crashes every now and then which can make it really annoying when you have come far into a level/task. The graphics is good for the age of the game and during the duration of me playing the game it seemed to not have any visual glitches/bugs at all, I would recommend buying this masterpiece of a game.

Amazing game. Its a shame Rockstar doesn't create these kind of games anymore. We should have a bully 2. This story is very deep with twists and plots. Spend time enjoying all the activities on this game as you get great rewards that make the game much more easier. Fun times with this game.

this game is peak however note this game needs to be patched with the 3.0 silent patch of github to work i love the game but rockstar is selling a broken product and it really sucks for people who haven't played the game.

how to fix it:
download the silent patch from github
unzip to main directory of the bully files
change settings in the github config i recommend changing the memory release
then play the game

its a simple fix but on that shouldnt be required but the ost in this game alon makes it worth it

you can dm if you need help with the files and installation if required

also play the game OG first then try mods some really good ones such as the online and zombie mod this game has it all

here is the issue, the game is AWESOME i love it, one of my favorites from my childhood. however, the bugs and glitches it encounters are TERRIBLE and happen far to often, im actually to the point i cant even launch the game now as of writing this review...and am looking into fixing it, if anyone could help id be greatful

i played this game alot when it came out and its just as fun the controls are a little werid on pc for my taste but i just plug in a controller, also it did seem to crash a lot after the first day of playing so i reccomend downloading the silent patch havent had any issues scince then

Game so good I translated the entire thing in Romanian just for the love of it.
Have all versions of it, even on PS2, finished it on all devices, simply my favourite game oat.

my first time ever playing this game, its very good had a lot of fun playing it, the only problem i had with this game it crashes a lot out nowhere, and the button mapping on the controller was absolutely trash, all my buttons was reverse my x button was my y button and vice-versa same with my A button being my B button, but that something I could look into but I was lazy to do any research into a game that I played every Sunday, but all in all this was a great game and I will recommend if you ever want to experience this game I would say get the 360 version or the ps3 version of the game due to the version on PC crashing a lot

Fun game to play, finally decided to go for the 100% and it took about 20 hours to do so, The game crashes a hell of a lot even with silent patch, but hey i was able to play despite those few issues. Still a shit tone of fun to play and i wish rockstar would just make Bully 2 already. P.S Fuck you Gary

I still remember playing Bully on my PS2 like it was yesterday. I didn’t have a memory card back then, so I’d leave the console running overnight—just so I could pick up right where I left off in the morning. This marks probably the tenth time I’ve completed the game, and honestly, it never gets old. There’s just something about Bully—its charm, its world, the characters—that no other game has ever matched. A true classic. Nothing will ever quite come close.

Very fun game, slightly janky controls, it does randomly close sometimes so be sure to save daily. The various incorporated mini games and stat progression through classes are great mechanics. This is a game for people who enjoy mainly side quests with a side of main quest. 4/5