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BEAT THE BULLIES: A NEW LOW ..THE VIDEO GAME THAT MAKES IT COOL TO BE A BULLY
A SKINHEAD thug wins a bloody playground fight with a classmate, before hunting down a teacher as his next victim.
This is Bully. A new video game that's been called the sickest ever, a sadistic orgy of violence where you win points for being the most vicious yob in a reform school.
News of the game's release comes as research suggests that playing violent video games makes youngsters more aggressive.
And it appears in the same week as the Daily Mirror launched the Beat The Bullies campaign, backed by X-Factor judge Simon Cowell.
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Horrified child welfare campaigners and teachers' groups are calling on the government to ban the Bully game.
Liz Carnell of campaign group Bullying Online says: "This game should be banned. I'm extremely worried that kids will play it and then act out what they've seen in the classroom.
"Bullying is not a game by any stretch of the imagination. We have around four suicidal children contacting us every day."
Two million children in the UK are bullied at school, with 40 per cent enduring abuse twice a week or more.
And the effects can last a lifetime. One in 12 youngsters is so traumatised that their education, relationships and even their job prospects are affected.
Between 10 and 15 children each year commit suicide after being picked on.
Steve Sinnott, General Secretary of the National Union of Teachers, says: "If this game lives up to its billing, the company is behaving very irresponsibly.
"Awarding a prize - even in the form of points - for bullying should not be promoted."
Before the game hits the UK shelves it must first be approved by the British Board of Film Classification.
Spokeswoman Sue Clark says: "It sounds likely the game will come to us and we will then have to decide whether or not to give it a certificate.
"If we refuse a certificate it cannot be sold or supplied."
But this is unlikely to prevent its release as to date the BBFC has only once failed to certificate a game.
This was in 1997 when it refused a rating for Carmageddon, in which players are encouraged to run over pedestrians.
And even that decision was later overruled by the Video Appeals Committee.
Bully will therefore in all probability be on sale before the end of the year.
Adrian Brown, of ChildLine, says: "Rockstar describe Bully, as 'brutally funny'.
"They may intend their game to be tongue in cheek, but ChildLine knows that for thousands of children bullying is just plain brutal and certainly not funny."
A spokeswoman for the Department of Culture, Media and Sport, says: "After a meeting between ministers and industry representatives in December, 15 and 18 certificates on the covers of games have been doubled in size to draw parents' attention to their content.
"This is an issue that the government takes extremely seriously."
Rockstar remains unrepentant. A spokesman said: "There are no easy answers for the real-life problem of school safety.
"But we believe the stories in video games should be judged like other works of fiction and recognized as entertainment.
"Bully is a fictional story that portrays a comic and exaggerated view of a boarding school told with merciless tongue-in-cheek humour.
"Anyone concerned about content should experience the game first hand and also understand the certification system which provides age-appropriate ratings and content descriptions so parents can make informed choices."
Well the right choice would be NOT to let any child or teenager play the game!! i'm really starting to get p****d off at people who are creating these games just because they say its fiction doesn't mean that everyone will take it that way. There WILL be kids who will like it enough to try it for real!! Anyway I hope that someone will STOP them from putting out those types of games!
I don't mind the violent games that are geared towards adults, but this game seems geared towards kids, even though it will have a mature rating, which of course means that no kid will play it, ha ha ha.
Maybe there should be a game, beat the tar out of stupid video game designers.
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Still doesn't sound as bad as Postal 2, the most horrifyingly violent game I have ever enjoyed playing. Where else can you light an entire marching band on fire? Or have a shotgun fight with Gary Coleman (yes, Arnold from Diff'rent Strokes) in a mall?
Funny how Rockstar Games has released virtually NO information regarding gameplay, yet these groups are protesting like they've seen the effects of it already.
According to the game company:
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Rockstar describes it as a game where players take the role of a "troublesome schoolboy" who "stands up to bullies, gets picked on by teachers, plays pranks on malicious kids, wins or loses the girl, and ultimately learns to navigate the obstacles of the fictitious reform school."
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Re: Video Game Violence
And they wonder why there is so much violence in schools and they wonder where the ideas come from. Heres Your Sign Duh don't let your kids play these games.What happened to good old Mario Brothers or Zelda those are good video games.
As a school counselor, I am greatly concerned about the glamorization of violence. Some kids think it is cool to be cruel. I am opposed to any game that minimizes the value of the human spirit. Our kids have great potential. We need to encourage them to utilize games that won't chip away at their inherent goodness.
And they wonder why there is so much violence in schools and they wonder where the ideas come from. Heres Your Sign Duh don't let your kids play these games.What happened to good old Mario Brothers or Zelda those are good video games.
And they wonder why there is so much violence in schools and they wonder where the ideas come from. Heres Your Sign Duh don't let your kids play these games.What happened to good old Mario Brothers or Zelda those are good video games.
There were violent movies and violent books and violent televisions shows in the past, and there was violence in schools in the past. I played Doom in high school and never felt the urge to shoot my classmates (well except perhaps metaphorically).
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