Rockstar games has a new game coming out next month called Canis Canem Edit. In some ways, this game is similar to Rockstar's Grand Theft Auto games, except it includes a series of short games. In the game players act as Jimmy Hopkins, a 15 year-old boy who has been expelled from more than a handful of schools, and is being forced to go to Bullworth Academy by his mom and step father.
This game includes school subjects, like English, science, biology, physical education, and woodshop. It also allows Jimmy to walk through the halls, talking to girls, and beating up other kids. The game gives missions, which Jimmy must carry out, but, similar to Grand Theft Auto's police meter, there is a trouble meter that displays how much trouble Jimmy can get in before being sent to the principal's office. As the game progresses, Jimmy learns new things from his teachers, and is able to implement these techniques into the schoolyard.
Science
Physical Education
Photography
Art
Rockstar has gone through the trouble of making many different types of characters for this game, and each character has a different look and a different voice, complete with a unique personality. Being stereotypical, the game's schoolyard has four different types of cliques: nerds, jocks, preps, and greasers.
Jimmy can pedal through the streets of the game, and egg people, but not unlike Grand Theft Auto, he can get caught by the policemen on bikes.
I'm not quite sure how the game works as a whole... Does Jimmy go home and sleep and interact with his parents, or can he wander the streets endlessly? Is there a penalty for going to school late? Or missing school? I have many other questions that I don't know the answers to, but I'm eager to find out when the game comes out.
On a side note - I like how Rockstar's page for the game gives off the appearance of a legitimate school
Comments (1)
This looks like a fascinating game. If I understand correctly, the game even uses "education" as a tool to achieve criminal ends. Synical, yet often true to life, e.g. white collar crime, politicians, etc.
Posted by Andy | October 15, 2006 11:34 AM
Posted on October 15, 2006 11:34