# 20 Years Later, Rockstar’s Best Game Still Doesn’t Have the Sequel It Deserved

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/20-years-later-rockstars-best-game-still-doesnt-have-the-sequel-it-deserved/
- Published: 2026-10-31T11:00:19+00:00
- Updated: 2026-10-31T11:18:35+00:00
- Original publisher: Polygon
- Original article: https://www.polygon.com/bully-20-years-later-sequel-retrospective/
- Topics: Celebrity, Entertainment

## Key points

- Bully brought Rockstar’s open-world format to a fictional school.
- It earned an 87/100 Metascore in 2006.
- Two decades later, it still has no sequel or remake.

## Summary

Rockstar released Bully in October 2006, creating an open-world game set in a school and its surrounding fictional town. Its teenage setting gave the studio’s familiar freedom and mischief a distinctive, more innocent form, while Jimmy Hopkins’s efforts to stand up to bullies gave the story a thread of justice.

The game received an 87/100 Metascore and followed the success of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, arriving before GTA 4. Players explored Bullworth, tackled missions and used items such as marbles, stink bombs and slingshots; the article argues these had practical uses as well as comic appeal. Twenty years on, the writer laments that Bully has neither a sequel nor a modern remake, while noting that a new instalment would need to reflect changes in school life.

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