[PS2] Canis Canem Edit hits shops, lots of people who've not played it complain.

Today sees the release (In the UK at any rate) of Canis Canem Edit. Previously known as Bully, the title is Latin for "Dog eat dog" and the game follows the school days of Jimmy Hopkins at Bullworth Academy and focuses on his run-ins with the many bullies there.

Made by Rockstar, a lot of people thought this game would be basically GTA:High School but if one reads some reviews (Rather than the sensationalist news stories) you'll see that it's quite different and rather than the Columbine-sim many said it would be, this is actually pretty light-hearted.

I don't doubt for a second that a lot of the negative news stories have been released by Rockstar themselves in an attempt to get some free publicity. They did it with all the GTAs and Manhunt and it worked for them then.

I reckon this looks like a decent game and if I didn't have such a huge backlogue of games to get through, I'd pick it up over the weekend. As it is, I've got about 8 games unstarted as it is so I'll hold off a bit and get a second hand copy at a later date.

Oh, according to Amazon.com it's still called Bully in the states (I suppose Latin would confuse too many Septics or something) and has been out since the 17th. So does anyone have it and is it any good?

Jam it back in, in the dark.