Bus stops located in various locations around the world allow the player to quickly travel back to Bullworth Academy. The player can also grab onto the back of a moving car while on a skateboard, but can't drive cars themselves. The vehicles featured in the game include a skateboard, scooters, bicycles and go-karts. Jimmy can run, jump, swim or use vehicles to navigate the game's world. The weapons available include slingshots, bags of marbles and itching powder, stink bombs, firecrackers, baseball bats, planks of wood, and spud cannons. The player can use melee attacks and weapons to fight enemies. Not attending classes when they are available is considered a violation of rules, unless they have been completed, in which case they become optional. Classes reward the player with new clothing items or abilities for example, English allows the player to apologise to authority figures after violating rules, Chemistry allows players to create their own throwable weapons, and Gym unlocks new fighting moves. Each course has five classes, which increase in difficulty, and passing all five will result in the player passing the course. When not performing missions, the player can attend classes, presented as minigames. Outside of missions, the player can freely roam the game's open world, consisting of the fictional town of Bullworth, and has the ability to complete optional side missions. If a group holds Jimmy in high regard, they will act friendly towards him (and have the option of being hired as 'bodyguards' or 'muscle') if a group despises Jimmy, they will attack him on sight. Missions reward the player with cash, new items, and increase/decrease the respect of certain groups. Players complete missions-linear scenarios with set objectives-to progress through the story. Throughout the story, Jimmy rises through the ranks of the school groups, archetypes which include Bullies, Nerds, Preppies, Greasers, and Jocks. The game's single-player mode has the player control a high school student-teenage rebel, James 'Jimmy' Hopkins. Bully is an action-adventure game set in an open world environment and played from a third-person perspective.

Bully video game gameplay