Rockstar is legendary for its fantastic crime series and Western games, but they've also experimented with other ideas many times, creating wildly different genres of masterpieces."Bully" is one of them. To this day, many people are still looking forward to its sequel, and many people are exploring the true heritage significance of this game.When it was released, many parents thought it would "send the wrong message" to players, but this is not the case.For proof, just listen to the developers who had to water down the original game code during development.

Confused? Rockstar was advancing the development of multiple games at the same time, and they were able to do this because they used the code base of "Grand Theft Auto: Vice City" to build new works.This clever approach saved them a lot of time.However, environment designer Andrew Wood revealed in an interview that although these codes helped a lot, in order to make certain behaviors in the campus scene appear more "appropriate", they had to adjust some content:

"Full 80% of the RenderWare engine and code come from "Sin City". What makes us different is the fighting gameplay-lead designer Mike Scopa, the animators, and animation programmer Liberty Walker all put a lot of effort into this aspect, striving to make the combat interesting and impactful. It is very difficult for the animators to design the action, because the scene is fighting with other children. If you are not careful, the picture will become too violent and out of place."

This is enough to prove that Rockstar never thought of making a "violent game with the theme of school bullying" from the beginning.What they want to create is a fun game centered around "campus" life, but with a "unique Rockstar style."

Perhaps the "worst thing" about the game is its timing.At that time, Rockstar was already "famous" for the content of its many M-rated (adult-rated) games, and now it has launched a work set in a campus.Many adults are worried about a "moral panic" - they obviously don't play video games, but they believe that games will "destroy children's minds", but the reality is far from this view.

Fortunately, the game ended up doing pretty well, but for a variety of reasons, Bully never got a sequel.However, there are still many people who are looking forward to the sequel, and even hope that there will be a remake so that they can return to that school again and make some noise.