"Nobody likes a bully, and nobody likes being bullied. But what do you do when confronted by a bully? Do you sit there and take it out of fear that standing up to the bully will lead to even more torment? Do you rat him out and hope for the best, knowing that it'll lead to a parking-lot brawl after school? Or do you stand up, fighting fire with fire? Rockstar's latest game, appropriately titled Bully, puts you in that situation and gives you the tools to stand up to those bullies, knock them around with your fists, and rise to the top of a boarding school's social scene. " -- Gamespot

"Take off that ridiculous purple wizard robe. Throw down your magical sword. Holster that plasma rifle while you're at it, and go ahead and crash your futuristic helicopter/spaceship into the nearest vagina-shaped alien fortress. Can we put a temporary hold on adolescent male fantasy? I mean Fantasy, like Final Fantasy, like airbrushed-Tolkien-on-the-side-of-a-custom-van fantasy. I'd rather escape to the circus than escape to another fantasy world full of elves in tights or linebackers in Robocop costumes. I'd rather spend my time in the real world. In fact, I'd rather hang out in the most painful, awkward, and humiliating real "world" of them all: high school. " -- 1up

"Commonly referred to as "Harry Potter for Hoodlums" or "Grand Theft Auto for Kids," Bully sets players in the soiled sneakers of snot-nosed punk Jimmy Hopkins. Jimmy's been kicked out of so many schools that he's been dumped at Bulworth Academy, the last on the boarding school train for most kids before they end up at military school or in the state prison system." -- GameDaily