"'Bully' Game Inspires Real-life Bullying!"

How about that, totally boring and predicatable enough, for you? As to the fact you're defending yourself against bullies, rather than being one, I'm sure the PC-brigade declared that as being wrong a long time ago. You have to report it to your school counsellor, nowadays, looking like a wimp in front of the whole school and result in bugger all being done about the actual bully, for fear of "infringing their human rights" by denying them education whilst they're expelled.

have you considered anger management?

No, because the sort of people that think "anger management" is the be all and end all are the people I tend to be angry with; in other words, it would be self-deafeating. Mind you, it probably would let me get close enough to inflict a lobotomy on them and stop them from spouting so much crap in the future.

Maybe, just maybe, this will be a ground breaking extension of interactive story telling in a freeform environment. If so, it will "rock" with or without drugs and violence.

Or maybe, what Rockstar does well is to do huge violent epics that push the bounds of good taste, but in this case they've shrunk the environment and taken out the violence and entertainingly dubious taste. If so, it will be dull as ditch water.

One question: linear or freeform? If the latter, could be good. If the former, it'll be a case of ignoring the hype and rent-before-you-buy.

freeform, so they tell us