Upcoming title for the Wii, Bully, ported from the PS2 will have a swag of multiplayer and minigame options...below you'll find the breakdown, word.
Math Class:
If ever there was a subject that they teach you in hell,
it is mathematics. There is no grey-area in math; it's right or wrong, yes or
no. Because of this, games like Brain Training have really caught on – improving
your quick-draw arithmetic skills, while making the subject a little easier to
digest for we, the numerically-challenged.
Mr. Hattrick, your in-game
math teacher, is at the centre of one of the game's new single-player missions.
Although he was in the original Bully, he's been fleshed out significantly as
part of the bonus content. As the tale goes, he gets busted for selling test
papers to his students before major exams. However, we didn't get to play this
new mission; rather, we were allowed to dive into the multiplayer 'math class' –
a series of rapid-fire math questions that you must answer before your fellow
players. The Wii remote simply chooses the correct answer from a list of
generally four answers. The time limit is generally very fast – answer
incorrectly the first time and there's usually not enough time to reconsider, so
you're best off really knowing the correct answer before you click.
There's a good variety of questions – many simple equations, spatial challenges,
simple geometry, brain teasers and an assortment of rather funny image-based
challenges (comparing sizes of objects, for instance). Amazingly, we could
actually see this improving our skills, given there are enough questions
included. Even if that isn't the case, it's hard to admit, but this actually
makes math (almost) fun. Yikes.
Music Class:
The music class, led by the charismatic, rotund hippie,
Ms. Peters, involves young Jimmy Hopkins playing the drums for the school
orchestra. In the single-player storyline, Jimmy gets blackmailed into
performing in the Christmas musical – he's given a sickeningly adorable
drummer-boy outfit and matching face paint and then shoved out onto the stage
for all to see.
What proceeds is a purposefully horrid rendition of a
montage of Christmas themes; Jimmy must play along in time with falling arrows
as you use the nunchuk and remote like drumsticks. As the arrows pass through a
point at the base of the screen, you need to time your swing correctly. All the
while, some of the school's nerds pirouette around and cut the rug in the
background, dressed as angels and other seasonal, figurative delights. It's
hilarious.
Biology Class:
In the scope of competitive games of the world,
dissection races surely rarely occur. In the town of Bullworth, however,
apparently this is all the rage. As you may have read about previously, the
multiplayer Biology game is actually a lot of fun. Initially, you're given the
body of a pigeon that's been retrieved by the groundskeeper. With your selection
of tools up the centre of the screen, you're tasked with pulling the avian
cadaver apart, piece by piece. The remote is the sole input tool here – you need
to keep up a good pace too, since you're competing head-to-head against your
friend in the separate multiplayer mode.
Like a slightly more forgiving version of Trauma Centre: Under the Knife on DS
or Wii (more forgiving in that there's no need to keep your 'patient' alive),
you need to trace over a dotted line with your scalpel, choose pins and pull
back the skin, and then remove the organs, cutting, pinching, pulling and
pinning as you go until all that's left is hollow, fouled remains.
One
thing you might not have heard about is the variety of animals that eventually
come up in the multiplayer game. Given that the groundskeeper is responsible for
harvesting the unfortunate specimens, in addition to the pigeon, you'll see a
variety of rodents, a bat and even an alien 'grey' that somehow ends up in the
school's possession on the last stage of the multiplayer game.