Is 'Bully' fun to play? Like, for real

Though not perfect, new game gets high marks for depth, concept.

Anyone who thinks video games are teaching our children how to be vicious, cruel and perhaps even violent has forgotten just how vicious, cruel and perhaps even violent children can be all on their very own.

Especially brutal are those tween years — 12 to 16 — that time when kids are beginning to flex their growing mental and physical muscles and often do so with no real sense of how they're affecting the people around them. Yes, if memory serves, teens don't need a game to show them how to act like a school of piranhas on the hunt for blood. It just comes naturally.

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