8 Video Games In Desperate Need Of A Remaster
2. Bully
Considered by many to be Rockstar Games' finest work, Bully has a refreshingly different tone to that of the developer's larger franchises Grand Theft Auto and Red Dead Redemption. Taking the premise of the criminal sandbox and transplanting it into a notoriously awful boarding school was an inspired idea. Warring gangs are now archetypal high school cliques: jocks, nerds, preppies and greasers. Guns are replaced with slingshots, firecrackers, itching powder and just about anything you can imagine being used to wreak havoc by characters in the Beano. Overzealous police are now pompous, self-important prefects who won't hesitate to drag you to the principal's office for the crime of stuffing a small child in a bin.
Even the overarching plot feels like a light-hearted parody of the standard gangster story, chronicling the journey of new kid Jimmy Hopkins, his ascent to power amongst the student body, his subsequent betrayal, downfall and expulsion, and his redemption in uniting a school that has fallen into chaos. There is endless fun to be had, whether you attend your lessons as a model student painting pictures of your sexy art teacher (yes, that's a thing) or blow it all off to steal bikes and flush people's heads down the toilet.
With repeated calls from fans for a sequel and various cruel teases and hoaxes that have since come to nothing, the least Rockstar could do is treat us to a revamped Bullworth Academy and all the juvenile fun that comes with it - minus the atrocious clunky camera controls, of course.