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Last Thursday (July 19, 2007) publisher Take Two announced that Rockstar’s popular and controversial adventure title Bully is Wii and 360 bound in an enhanced Scholarship Edition. Aside from promising additional new content and a Winter 2007 release date, details about the new versions are slim.

The original Bully took the PS2 by storm, offering GTA-style sandbox gameplay in a boarding school (and town) setting. Though it caused the usual Rockstar uproar about inappropriate content (especially because it starred a 15 year old kid and was set in a school), the storyline and characterizations were actually quite rich and warm. Protagonist Jimmy Hopkins could be a troublemaker, or an upstanding citizen, depending on how the player approached things.

What’s really interesting is the speculation over the decision to bring Bully to the Wii. Table Tennis, Rockstar’s other upcoming Wii port,  makes perfect sense, but Bully has the potential to tick off all those soccer mom’s who are currently enjoying Wii Play and Mario Party 8 with their toddlers. Or perhaps its really just good business sense (given the Wii’s sales) and the only person who’ll get their panties in a wad is Jack Thompson.

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