Bully, also known as Canis Canem Edit, is a third person action-adventure video game released by Rockstar Vancouver for the PlayStation 2. The game was released as Bully: Scholarship Edition for the Xbox 360, Wii and PC and as Bully: Anniversary Edition for iOS and Android. Bully: Scholarship Edition was released by Rockstar Vancouver, with Mad Doc Software (now known as Rockstar New England), involved with the development. The game uses an advanced Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas engine through Renderware.
The plot of the game revolves around 15-year-old protagonist Jimmy Hopkins and his adventures at Bullworth Academy, a prestigious prep school in the town of Bullworth.
References to Grand Theft Auto[]
Vehicle models used in different Rockstar Games titles developed by different studios were provided to Rockstar Vancouver to be used as background props in Bully.
- A heavily edited model of the Stallion can be found in Shop class, featuring a similar flame pattern as the Diablo Stallion, although it lacks a hood-mounted supercharger. The license plate texture in also reused from Grand Theft Auto: Vice City.
- In addition, a 1970 Ford LTD Country Squire-looking vehicle (resembling the Regina) is also seen in the background, reused from The Warriors.
- Original carcols.dat and handling.cfg files from Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, used to define vehicle handling stats and default traffic colors in the game, appear as leftovers in Bully, seemingly unused in-game.
References to Bully in Grand Theft Auto[]
- Stock footage of Bullworth Academy (not mentioned by name) used in the trailer for Bully: Scholarship Edition is briefly reused in a segment of CNT in Grand Theft Auto IV, depicting one of the many unnamed boarding schools which Jill Von Crastenburg attended at some point.
- A short segment of the Prefects' theme can be heard during the Benefactor Surano commercial on Weazel.
- The movie Sequel II played at the Astro Theaters and featuring Billy Blue as an actor may or may not be a reference to Sequel: The Movie, which was advertised at the movie theater in Bully.
- A hoodlum found in Strawberry sometimes wears a shirt with "HOPKINS" labelled on the back.
- The coat of arms of the Bullworth Academy was stylized and featured in Canis Canem Edit [1], a painting by Mathew Morse at The Diamond Casino & Resort. The painting's name is taken from the academy's motto, which means "Dog Eat Dog" in Latin.
- The "Conveyor" livery[2] for the Mammoth Avenger, TM-02 Khanjali, HVY APC and V-65 Molotok shows an unedited Bullworth Academy coat of arms among other Rockstar Games Easter eggs including IV, Manhunt, Midnight Club: Los Angeles and Rockstar Presents: Table Tennis.
- The unreleased "Knuckleduster Sport" livery for the Grotti Itali GTO Stinger TT also shows an unedited Bullworth Academy coat of arms if observed closely.
External Links[]
- Bully Wiki
- Official Bully Homepage
- Official Canis Canem Edit Homepage
- BBC News article about the controversy
- Youth Council of Ireland wants boycott of “shocking" game