Bully
- October 16, 2006 11:53 AM PST
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The simple truth is that not much information has been released about Bully, with much of what is known gleaned from screenshots and teaser video footage.
Predictably enough, however, the title alone was enough to pry Jack Thompson out from under whatever Florida rock he calls home, spouting the usual mix of clueless hyperbole and incendiary rhetoric that gets our nation's effete "journalists" worked up into a lather. This guy is demanding that Take Two provide him with a preview build of Bully to assess, as if there's any question what his thoughtlessly pre-packaged klaxon call verdict will be. This is the same guy that likens accepting pre-sale orders for games not yet rated to selling drugs not yet approved by the FDA.
"Eat my slingshot-y shorts, Bart Simpson!"
Like movies, music, and every other art form that was once decried as an assault on the "traditional values" blowhards like Thompson claim to hold dear, video games like Bully don't create society, they reflect aspects of it, casting back a dark image of everything that's wrong with the supposedly preparatory world of education we force our children to navigate.
Railing against popular entertainment while kids graduate unable to read is a lot like Congressional hearings on steroids in baseball while millions of homeless choke city streets: it serves as little more than a distraction from exponentially more important problems.
At least Bully promises to provide gamers with an outlet for any latent rage they might harbor about their past, or an empowering distraction from a frustrating day-to-day reality, with a lighthearted tongue-in-check tone. Whatever tabloid headlines choose to invoke Rockstar's latest dystopia, let's just hope that the finished product is worth your attention when it finally lands on store shelves.
At least it's bigger than a San Francisco studio apartment.
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