NOTE: This isn't indication as to whether Bully 2 is or isn't currently being worked on right now. Games get cancelled and rebooted all the time. Current consensus among Rockstar leakers is that the game IS in production and is Rockstar's next major game.



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Ok so the Bully community is going nuts over this one. To sum it all up, notorious Rockstar leak guy Fika122 recently got in contact with a former Rockstar New England developer. Said developer worked at Rockstar up to mid 2009 on an unannounced project for the 360 and PS3 (Bully 2). The identity of this Rockstar employee has obviously been made private to ensure he's not affected by what we're about to go into but he was verified by trusted Bully community member and popular YouTuber SWEGTA who made a video on the whole thing which I'll link below. The employee's name does show up in the credits for the first Bully and said employee WAS employed by Rockstar New England according to SWEGTA searching up his name on LinkedIn, looking at his online portfolio and other stuff which is why I'll take his word for all this information being real and legit.I'll sum up the information from the chat logs below but before we continue, what's interesting is that concept art and soundtrack samples supposedly for Bully 2 got leaked in 2017. I'll post them here so you can check them out.(this one is interesting as it explicitly mentions Jimmy's dad and his new house which according to the new leaked info was meant to be a major driving force in this game's story giving the image above legitmacy).Among this concept art leak was a character sheet of a mailman. Fika sent this to the employee who actually confirmed that it was official Bully 2 concept art who then stated that he thinks the rest might all be legit too.Alright so supposedly the game was to be set during Jimmy's summer vacation at his new step-dad's house with a summer camp being the main setting and with a nearby town to explore. You had step siblings to deal with and the game expanded on things you could do such as a climbing system, more pranks and some other mechanics like being able to dive into a garbage can to hide from someone chasing you. Other things included being able to shimmy along walls, and more mini-games.I think it's worth mentioning that some of the leaked soundtrack samples actually corroborated this summer camp/wilderness angle. Not to mention Abe living in the woods...This is Fika122's chat log with the Rockstar New England employee who was working on Bully 2There's a lot more to learn about this which is why I urge you to watch SWEGTA's video on this!!For me, the biggest take away from this is that they had planned on keeping Jimmy as the protag again but also the whole summer camp setting. Not going to lie, I had never really pictured something like that but now that the idea is known, I kinda want it.