When the company demoed 'Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas,' it opened with a video reel featuring clips from 'Boyz N the Hood' and 'Easy Rider.' This time, it was 'Rushmore' and 'Napoleon Dynamite' and seemingly every movie that features schoolboys wearing blazers with a patch on the chest. That's still too much for some, but the game is clearly not the worst of what people were expecting.Ī trio of Rockstar reps recently demonstrated 'Bully' for MTV News at the game maker's downtown office. 'I think it's wonderful.'ĭubbed a 'Columbine simulator' last year by attorney Jack Thompson and the subject of a picketing campaign by a group called the Peaceoholics, the game, as demonstrated, appears to be more of a 'Napoleon Dynamite' or 'Breakfast Club' simulator (see 'Rockstar Games' 'Bully' Won't Take Your Lunch Money Until '06'). 'When I saw it, I was like, 'I want to be the first one to play the game,' ' said Izzy Kalman, a Staten Island school psychologist and founder of Bullies2Buddies, who saw the game in action at Rockstar's offices last week.

In fact, it even has an advocate in the bullying-awareness crowd. NEW YORK - A year after critics said it should be banned, 'Bully' - the new game from 'Grand Theft Auto' maker Rockstar Games - is finally in action.Īnd the biggest shock so far is that the game is not exactly what the 'Bully' opponents said it would be.

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