CANIS CANEM EDIT - PS2

You play as Jimmy, a teenage boy who's dropped off at a boarding school while his mother and step-father go on a year-long holiday. He looks like a right little bruiser, with a short stocky build and the face only a mother could love. Yes, he looks like your stereotypical school bully, but as things turn out, he's not the repugnant bad boy that his image (or Jack Thompson) suggests.

One of the first kids you meet is Garry, a really annoying bully that lives in the same dorm as you. You only put up with him for so long, though, and soon that rather weak friendship is over and you move onto other things. The storyline isn't all that involving, but interesting little things pop up throughout, with Jimmy moving from one activity to the next, showing about as much commitment to something as most kids. Bully is about surviving as the new kid, and it carries that off very well indeed.

The main area is Bullworth Academy, the school in which you'll attend lessons. During a morning and an afternoon session you'll be required to go to class, with truancy frowned upon by teachers and prefects. These lessons are basically little mini-games that increase in difficulty as you progress from lesson to lesson, and success will earn you rewards in a number of areas - such as increased luck with the ladies. If you're simply messing about outside of class and get caught by a prefect, you'll be taken to the lesson without any real punishment, but getting caught while on a mission will cause you to fail.