Canis Canem Edit Comments by Tom Bramwell

Yep.

Great game.

Buy it, just to get the flood of gangster games stopped and make the people with decision making skills realize that it was the GAMEPLAY that sold GTA. Not the killing.

It actually does sound good. Bugger.

Sod it I will give it a try.

Sounds like fun. Kind of like Harry Potter but without the magic and Posh Twunts.

Wow so using the basis of GTA yet it feels fresh.
Well only R* can make a decent GTA clone...

Oh, and about that Fifa review...

i'm still contemplating whether to buy this now or wait til it drops in price many months from now.

I hope all the idiots who were campaigning to get it banned read this review!

Doesn't sound like much to get your knickers in a twist about! No worse than a lot of games that come out these days.

Maybe originally calling it "Bully" (still is in the US) wasn't the best idea...although I suppose it generated a huge amount of hype about the game.

Yep, sounds all right!

Whoah, a 9. I was expecting less

Hmm. From disinterest to top of the wishlist.

its out today isn't it? i thought i saw copies for sale in my local GAME? Broken street-date?

/rubs eyes incase i'm seeing things...

No, it seems the streetdate was brought forward. Something about a footie game being out soon or something. Hopefully my copy is sat in my hallway awaiting my return home.

Everybody loves a bit of Bully.

I see what your saying about not being able to blame the idiots and Rockstar courting contraversy...but at the same time, its the same idiots time and time again who try to blame videogames for all of the worlds troubles.

This game was really just an excuse for them to vent their narrow opinions.

yup, and R* played 'em like a violin maestro.

I watched the GameSpot video review and the game looks excellent fun to play. Shame that I no longer own a PS2 or that there isn't an Xbox or PC version forthcoming. I guess I'll have to wait until I buy a PS3 before I get the chance to play it...

Situations like this are not uncommon.

Heh. :)

Anyone know if the Xbox version works on Xbox 360?

damn after the liksang thing im sure i said id never buy anything sony again

It's quite pretty for a Rockstar PS2 game as well I thought. Some nice depth of field effects and the characters look better than the ones in GTA. Some nice lipsynching as well.

There are minor issues like 'floating' feet due to heavily optimized animations but you don't notice that and also there's a lot of repetition in textures but that wont bother you too much. The framerate stalls are annoying but acceptable.

Overall the game is fine technically except for the design decision to make the camera rotation to not change the movement direction of the character and instead function like the old resident evil games. It's just plain wrong for this type of control system.

Genuinely surprised to see a 9 at the bottom of the page after reading the review. As each paragraph progressed it sounded more and more like it had 8 written all over it.

A great game is a great game no matter which platform it is on.

I'll buy this! :)

yeah but you can kiss other boys in it..! Jack will have a field day:
http://gaygamer.net/index.php?id=1609

girls like flowers, and pressing X while holding L1.

:)

did i mention eg is the best?
or it would be, if it made game titles in italics...

Kiigan, there isn't an Xbox version.

Good. Looking forward to my pre-order coming thro.

Must. Have.

Sounds boring to me =/. Although there hasn't been a game in a long time that looks good. The balance thing sounds nice though, and kinda proves all that space in GTA SA wasn't needed.

Hmm..it sounds somewhat interesting, but to me this whole situation reminds me a little too much of that Simpsons episode where Marge can't persuade the kids to do yard work, yet when they subsequently go to the carnival, they're calmoring to get a turn on the virtual "Yard Work Simulator". Yes, the game sounds well put together, but going to school was a bit of a chore in real life. Why do I want a game that simulates it? :S

Also, I must confess that the teacher in the second screenshot in this review actually IS my old chemistry teacher. Which is a bit creepy.

after all the pre-release hype and Mad Jacks rantings i was expecting somnething totally different to this.

i hasn't lived up to the violence simulator it was supposed to be and sounds boring.
Sounds exactly like i imagined boarding school to be.

\is disappointed

I might get a PS2 just so I can play this game, and "The Warriors".

The 1up Yours podcast recently had a guy from Rockstar Vancouver in the studio with them, and he had some interesting things to say both about 'Bully' and gaming/game development in general.

i'm still contemplating whether to buy this now or wait til it drops in price many months from now.

£22.99 from HMV
http://uk.gamestracker.com/ps2/11034/

Having played for a few hours I'm not too impressed, although I expect things will improve once the 'outside world' becomes accessible.

I'm 10% in and it's really good so far. Have to disagree with the 'weak dialog' comment on the review, as I found it interesting, touching and very funny.

Must buy +1

I'm gonna buy it, cos ManicMinerUK is so excited about it!

Also surprised at that 9 at the bottom of the page. I was vaguely interested in this (tabloid baiting aside) but looks like it will join my to-get list. The PS2 is still getting some top-notch stuff, no doubt about it.

great game. instantly fun to play, and brilliant character designs.

"Having played for a few hours I'm not too impressed, although I expect things will improve once the 'outside world' becomes accessible."

The thing to do is to burn through the opening chapter quickly (took me about two hours or so, with some intermittent faffing), because then it really blossoms.

Picked this up today in Gamestop or €40! GAME were selling it at €55.

XBox 360 owners who miss out can wait for their forthcoming dose of jelly tits instead...

Hm. I must buy this once I've bothered completing Psychonauts.

>>>Pastici: Sounds boring to me =/. Although there hasn't been a game in a long time that looks good.
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If there's nothing out, or on the horizon, you like the sound of, it appears you've lost your gaming mojo mate. I sympathise, been there several times. All it takes is one game to get you back into it though. The last two games to shake me out of my periods of utter disinterest were Darwinia and, strangely, Dragon Quest 8. Strange, because I generally loathe jrpg's....and I'm not really a fan of rts's either o_O.

Played this for an hour or so today in work and so far I'm absolutely loving it,even though I can't stand any of the GTA games,this one seems to have a certain charm to it(I think it's the whole gangsta thing in GTA games that bores me rigid very quickly)I thought the graphics were surprisigly good for a ps2 game,and like a poster above I'm finding the writing to be consistantly funny,then again i'm easily amused.
Now i'm not a prude or anything else of the sort,but lil Jimmy certainly isn't the angelic lil lad who only has to defend himself against bullies throughout the game that a few website previews have made him out to be,infact he's a bit of a naughty,trouble making bastard so far(''Yes i'll follow you to go and beat up a homeless guy''etc),and I can now understand why a slight fuss has been made of the game elsewhere in the world,and I also agree that it needed a 15 certificate over here,infact IMO it's bordering on an 18 rating,as I could easily see some of the more impressionable stupid youths out there wanting to do some of the stuff the main character gets up to.

Hmm.....I might get this game after Phantasy Star Universe, Disgaea 2 and Dirge of Cerberus. With all the great RPG titles coming out (and KHII still doing well), Rockstar picked a pretty bad time to release a game if they want the RPG gamer to buy their game

The street date wasn't broken, it was just bought forward, from what I heard.
I'm genuinely interested in this game now. You can't help but question the moral of the main theme, as no matter how smart we all are, there will always be some impressionable folk out there who decide as a result that bullying is cool.
This reminds me of something I read in Edge - games are like food. It's not the ingredients that make the dish, it's the person they're given to.

I think it's not nice that they quit making the Xbox conversion.

Guess I have to wait until I get my PS3 or something ridiculous.

The BBFC part states that the game contains "Impressionable Behaviour", or something similar.

Gaah! Why do they have to review the game a week before it is even released? Annoying. It's not released until Friday here. Damn teasers.

No xbox version means no sale for me, do you see rockstar?

Idiots.

looks good. brings back fond memories of SKool Daze

Lukus> "Sounds like fun. Kind of like Harry Potter but without the magic and Posh Twunts."

You know, that's what my housemate said when I told him about Canis Canem - he was all like: 'It sounds like the game that they -should- have make for the Harry Potter setting, instead of all those pithy platformers..

Just heard on radio 1 this game is about beating kids up with baseball bats. Didn't take long for the publicity campaign to kick into action.

Despite that it looks great and I will be getting.