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Bully Trailer Hits the Web

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the rockstar-at-it-again dept.

GGLucas writes "Contrary to the rumours that have spread about the Rockstar game, Bully, and it's storyline, the game's trailer as released by IGN today spins in a completely different direction, anti-game critics will not be happy. From the article: 'Bully puts players in control of 15 year-old Jimmy Hopkins — a boy who has just begun his first year in the New England-based Bullworth Academy, and a guy who's charged with the mission of ridding the school of a number of its undesirable elements.'"

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  1. Re:Bad marketting by zerocommazero · · Score: 5, Informative
    I guess it's the fact that NO ONE remembered (especially the editor) that the original game synopsis WAS that you were a kid who basically got fed up and fought back against bullies, bad teachers, etc.

    Come on, Slashdot, you're supposed to be better than the regular news spin!

  2. The Telstra/Gamearena mirror by AHuxley · · Score: 4, Informative

    A mirror of the 61.7mb 480x270.mov http://www.gamearena.com.au/ps2/games/title/bully/ index.php

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    1. Re:The Telstra/Gamearena mirror by Aladrin · · Score: 4, Informative

      Game Arena requires a login, and bugmetnot's accounts have all been disabled, apparently.

      How about:

      http://www.rockstargames.com/bully/trailer/bully_t railer1_final_480x270.wmv
      http://www.rockstargames.com/bully/trailer/bully_t railer1_final_480x270.mov

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  3. Re:Porn vs. Violence by TheoMurpse · · Score: 4, Informative
    NC-17 movies exist, as do R movies (which require a parent).
    I will dispute this, inasmuch as movie ratings are more contractual. The chain is basically:
    The MPAA has de facto control over most movie theatres in the US (Cinemark, etc.) through contracts (i.e. a movie theatre which shows first-run MPAA films may not show non-MPAA-certified films, or something to that effect). Thus, films must (if they want strong revenues) pretty much have to get MPAA certification (including receiving a rating) to appear in most movie theatres in the US. Additionally, movie theatres showing these films are contractually obligated, for the most part, to enforce the film ratings by MPAA requirements. There is no legality involved (pornography is a different story, of course). Thus, when you were carded by a theatre before seeing an R-rated film, it was purely based on contracts and societal pressures, not by any legal requirement to do so.
    What about cigerettes and alcohol?
    These have age requirements because it is almost incontrovertible that these substances have either a deleterious effect on one's health or influence minors negatively (and minors in particular have less maturity to deal with these effects, or make the decisions themselves).

    I don't have a great argument about pornography restrictions aside from the fact that the US is a particularly prudish country in regards to sex and nudity.