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Why the critics are wrong to slam Rockstar's Bully

shuandrew | March 09, 2008 | Blog | Playstation 2 Wii 
With the re-release of Rockstar's Bully, many critics have called for the Nintendo Wii and Xbox 360 versions of the game to be banned due to the title's supposed detrimental effects on children. However, Nintendic fights the corner of Rockstar and defends Bully in what looks like a case of many misinformed parties.
With titles such as Grand Theft Auto and Manhunt 2 under its belt, developer and publishe, Rockstar Games has become synonymous with the word ‘controversy’ in recent years. So when the firm revealed that it was to re-release Bully for the Nintendo Wii and Microsoft Xbox 360 this year, it wouldn’t have taken a genius to predict that the game would be the catalyst for another wave of moralistic uproar. So, in the light of certain stores refusing to stock it and this writer having to produce two forms of identification in order to purchase Bully, does it really deserve the negative attention and condemnation it has been getting? Xboxic thinks not.
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  • 0 thumbs!
    Seeker X | March 10, 2008
    Haven't we gone through this already? The release for the PS2 version was hell as it was, what the hell are people complaining about now?
  • 0 thumbs!
    Stitch | March 10, 2008
    Oh, come on!
    The game is not that bad.
    Nobody gets killed in this game, isn't that already good enough?
    They're just complaining for nothing.
  • 0 thumbs!
    Blackfalcon | March 10, 2008
    Why are people trying to ban this game when there are far worse ones out on the market already?!? Lol, clever.
    • 1 thumbs!
      Ameer | March 11, 2008
      The difference is that those 'worse ones' don't deal with children.

      Their argument is still flawed, but that's the perspective they're coming from.
  • 0 thumbs!
    Jai Poke Manic | March 10, 2008
    WTF that game is cool
    F em.

    ~Jai~
  • 0 thumbs!
    J Bro | March 11, 2008
    Man, people need to realize that this is just a video game. Movies have worse shit than this all the time, and you don't see people trying to ban movies.

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