Grand Theft Auto Junior

User Rating: 8 | Bully PS2
By Second_Rook | Review Date:
I was reluctant to play Bully for the longest time, until one day it was just sort of thrust into my hands by a friend. I eventually put it in the PS2 and was pleasantly surprised. It took very little time for me to treat Jimmy Hopkin's problems as though they were my own. I stayed up late a few nights to just do "one more" mission.

The story, missions, and humor are pure GTA, it's just been toned down to a PG-13 version. You are Jimmy Hopkins, a bitter teen who's mother lives in a cycle of marriage and divorce, dumping him off wherever she can. After being expelled from a series of boarding schools Jimmy ends up at Bulworth Academy. He meets Gary, a sociopath off his meds who lives to plant seeds of discord. Gary is your fist mission contact and the game spreads out from there.

As this is a school you have classes that you may or may not attend, if you choose to skip you will be pursued by prefects at the school or the police in town. Attending is beneficial as each passing grade grants you a different type of bonus or ability and the minigames are actually pretty good.

The soundtrack is excellent, both musically and vocally, I laughed a couple of times during the game which is always a nice bonus, in fact the mission in which Jimmy must wear the Bullworth Bulls mascot costume and is forced to repeatedly do the Bull Dance may be the funniest moment ever in a videogame.

I am going to guess that Jimmy will eventually make it into college and I will be sure to enroll right along with him.

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