Instead of a crime-ridden city like Liberty City, the setting is the small New England town of Bullworth, while includes a boarding school called Bullworth Academy. It's basically the GTA game formula in a different kind of setting. Like GTA, Bully involves a series of mini-game missions that follow a story, plus a variety of side games and the opportunity to cause trouble in case you want to take a break from the story missions (or if you don't want to do the story missions to begin with). With all of this in mind, Bully takes the player into the world of school bullying while providing an immersive gaming experience, the same way GTA does with street crime. The video game Bully does not depict cyber bullying (being that it's presumably set in the 1990s), but rather presents traditional forms of bullying in a visually cartoonish fashion, probably not too different from old comedy movies that depict funny non-explicit scenes of school bullying. Two, it is still possible to portray a naturally serious topic with lightheartedness and humor, if done right. Just think of action and crime thriller movies, not to mention the Grand Theft Auto games. One, there is a difference between reality and fantasy, even with topics that are surely serious in real life. So how is it possible to enjoy Rockstar's video game Bully while being aware of the issue in real life? I can make two statements. There have been cases of serious depression and tragic cases of suicide stemming from bullying. These days, school bullying includes the physical kind that has occurred for decades as well as the online type where victims are humiliated via social media and text messaging. Now the company is known not just for controversy related to depicting violent street crime in video games, but also for controversy related to depicting school bullying in a video game. Here is a non-GTA game from Rockstar that provides a new adventure while staying true to its brand of games with free-world exploration and controversial themes. That's why it's no surprise that, like any other kind of business, Rockstar took a moment to develop and release something different. Even so, it's possible for game developers to get temporarily bored with making the same product repeatedly and for gamers to play the same game multiple times. With Grand Theft Auto, the highly controversial yet immensely popular street crime video game series, Rockstar Games has a flagship product that could rake in millions of dollars for years to come.

Rockstar Games explores another controversial premise, while thrilling us with an entertaining game.

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