Game entry

Bully

2006 · Action-adventure, Sandbox · PC, PlayStation 2, PlayStation 4 · Take-Two Interactive

After 200 duels settled by the community, Bully stands no. 407 among the best video games of all time on GameForever, with 1,730 ELO points and 73% of wins. Its most contested head-to-head pits it against Assassin's Creed Brotherhood: 2 wins to 1 across 3 duels. Measured against its own family, it climbs to no. 9 out of 135 (2006).

World rank

no. 407 =

ELO score

1,730

Wins

73%

Duels played

200

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About Bully

As a mischievous schoolboy, you’ll stand up to bullies, get picked on by teachers, play pranks, win or lose the girl, and ultimately learn to navigate the obstacles of the worst school around, Bullworth Academy - a corrupt and crumbling prep school with an uptight facade.

The community says

I was maybe fourteen when I first got my hands on this, playing it at a cousin's place on weekends, and the school setting felt so novel back then. Looking…

ELO progression

Score moved from 1,500 to 1,730 ELO points over the last 215 days.

Head-to-head

Direct record on the most played match-ups.

against Assassin's Creed Brotherhood 67% 3 duels played · 30 points behind
against Pizza Tower 100% 2 duels played · 329 points ahead
against Assassin's Creed II 0% 2 duels played · 140 points behind
against Hitman 50% 2 duels played · 121 points behind
against Resident Evil 4 100% 2 duels played · 141 points ahead

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The games Bully sits between in the world ranking.

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The standing

Where Bully ranks

The world rank mixes every family of games. Here is where Bully stands in each of the ones it belongs to. Its best standing, all families considered: 9 out of 135 (2006).

Where Bully ranks
Ranking	Position	Games competing
World ranking	407	5,110
Action-adventure	50	332
2000s	124	1,304
2006	9	135

The community

The debate

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Save_Spencer

I was maybe fourteen when I first got my hands on this, playing it at a cousin's place on weekends, and the school setting felt so novel back then. Looking back the combat really was clunky even by that era's standards, but the characters stuck with me way more than they had any right to
VinylByte

I borrowed this from a friend one summer and ended up keeping it way longer than I should have. Every time I picked up the controller I told myself just one more mission, and somehow the whole afternoon disappeared.
rowe_trystan

So I keep seeing this pop up against stuff like Witcher 3 and honestly the comparison never made sense to me, they're not even trying to do the same thing, one's a school sim with pranks and the other is this massive RPG, and yet people vote like they're measuring the same yardstick, which I guess is just how these rankings work.

Puente51

Lo de comparar peras con manzanas pasa en casi todos los duelos del ranking, no solo aquí, y al final el sistema no mide eso.
QuestDragon93

It gets a pass just for being different (which, fair, it earned that reputation). But at 214th it's clearly riding on nostalgia more than on what's actually in the game.

Ghost_Archuleta

Distinto no siempre es sinónimo de mejor, y aquí se nota bastante en varias misiones tardías.

Paola_1997

Y a mí me pasó igual con GTA V, los prefiero por razones distintas según el día.
Samuel_75

No entiendo cómo sigue ganando duelos contra juegos con diez veces su ambición...

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