If you missed Jimmy and are still yearning for a Bully sequel, we may have the next best thing. While Rockstar hasn’t released Bully 2 yet – and where there’s life, there’s hope – a dedicated team of modders have created an entire online mode to keep you busy in the meantime.
“IT’S HAPPENING!” developer SWEGTA announced on YouTube. “We finally have an online mode for Bully that allows you and your friends to play mini-games, role-play, compete in races, battle NPCs, and more!”
“This is a project that my team and I have been working on for a very long time,” SWEGTA added, “and it’s finally at a stage of development where we can announce it and show it to the public.
“Bully Online runs on the DSL Script Loader, which is a plugin for Bully that essentially allows for a more comprehensive approach to modding. Many things that we thought were impossible just a few years ago can now be done, including creating an online mode. We have an official Bully Online server and plan to make it publicly available in due course.”
Starting in December, the team will make the server available to Ko-Fi backers along with previews, videos, screenshots, and comments from the creators. The server itself is described as a “mixture” of mini-games, free roaming and role-playing, and features a “full-blown” inventory system that allows players to earn in-game money and spend it on “a wide range of different things such as housing, weapons, vehicles and items.”
What if there is ever an official sequel? Dan Houser, co-founder of Rockstar Games and author of the studio’s biggest games, including Grand Theft Auto AND Red Dead Redemption series I recently sat down to watch exclusive interview with IGNrevealing Bullying 2 this did not occur due to “bandwidth issues”.
Bully – also known as Canis Canem Edit in some parts of the world – was a humorous action game in which players took on the role of Jimmy, a high school outcast attending a pretentious private school. “Bully is a great, well-made action game, made even better by one of the best senses of humor in the world” – IGN Bully review To read. “Expect dozens of hours of fun.”
Fans have been demanding a sequel for a long time, which was once developed at Rockstar’s New England studio in the delayed 21st century. While Bully 2 was obviously never released, some of its ideas made their way into other Rockstar games like Red Dead Redemption 2.
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