Rockstar used GTA: Vice City's code to craft cult classic open-world game Bully, but immediately found the choreography "hard" because "you're getting into fistfights with other kids"

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"If you took it too far, it would immediately get too violent and inappropriate"

A football team and red bull mascot running in Bully
(Image credit: Rockstar Games)

Bully shares a significant amount of its code with GTA: Vice City, but its devs ran into some difficulties when it came to making its combat animations.

Because of the fact that Rockstar Games makes roughly one game every five-to-eight years now, it's easy to forget just how many games were coming from the company in the 2000s. In just over five years from October 22, 2001 to October 31, 2006 we had five GTA games, Manhunt, The Warriors, Red Dead Revolver, two Midnight Club games, Bully, and the classic Rockstar Games Presents Table Tennis all from Rockstar studios.

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