When comparing Bully: Scholarship Edition vs GTA: Chinatown Wars, the Slant community recommends GTA: Chinatown Wars for most people. In the question“What are the best games with rich story for Android?” GTA: Chinatown Wars is ranked 19th while Bully: Scholarship Edition is ranked 28th. The most important reason people chose GTA: Chinatown Wars is:
The power struggle between gangs has resulted in the death of your father. You have flown from Hong Kong to avenge your father's death. The missions vary, and all could be plausible making it easy to get lost in the story.
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Pros
Pro Fun combat system
The combat in the game is actually well fleshed out, allowing the player to string combos when fighting in the game. Often games of this type have simple controls that only do the basics, but Bully actually went a step beyond and created fighting mechanics that are fun and intuitive.
Pro Good mix of missions
The games missions allows for the player to explore the world the game is set in, from the school, to environments that involve characters from the school. It feels like a fleshed out world that has a good mix of missions making for a game that does not ever feel stale.
Pro Compelling events make the story interesting
The power struggle between gangs has resulted in the death of your father. You have flown from Hong Kong to avenge your father's death. The missions vary, and all could be plausible making it easy to get lost in the story.
Pro Local multiplayer is more fun than you'd think
The local multiplayer takes advantage of this open-world game in the best ways possible. You can challenge another player to different activities - including Death Races (last alive or first to the finish wins), Stash Dash (get to a delivery van first and make deliveries while the other player tries to stop you), Liberty City Survivor (1v1 battle against your opponent with many police around), and Defend the Base (co-operatively protect targets from incoming bad guys).
Pro Decent graphics
The graphics and lighting effects have been improved over the original version (on the Nintendo DS) to a point where they're good enough for modern mobile gaming.
Pro Controller support for improved controls
GTA: Chinatown Wars has built in controller support which means it is compatible with the Google Nexus Player as well as the Amazon Fire TV. This means you can play it on your phone/tablet with a Bluetooth controller, or on an Android console on the big-screen TV with a Bluetooth controller for an even more console-like feeling.
Note: not all Bluetooth controllers are supported
Cons
Con Frequent crashes to desktop
It will consistently crash to desktop (CTD) about every 15-30 minutes. It does not make any difference if you attempt to set compatibility to XP SP3, limit CPU affinity to core 0, or even set "run as admin", either.
Rockstar's apparent solution, other than releasing a v1.3 patch, is for you to limit your entire system's usable RAM to 1GB. Which you obviously can't do on any Windows OS beyond XP without incurring a BSOD loop.
Con Terrible performance years after release
Notable drops in framerate during the Chemistry and Music minigames, on machines well above the recommended hardware many years after release.
Con 30 FPS cap
Bully: SC is limited to running at 30 frames per second.
Con Uses stick-based gesture gameplay even when mouse is in use
The game was not updated to show icons for mouse and keyboard controls, leaving the port showing analog stick control tutorials in the game, even if they are not being used at all.
Con Controls on touchscreen are not that good
Driving can be pretty difficult with the touch screen controls, though there are two different settings, so one may work better than the other.
Con Not an original game
While not a con for everybody, this game has virtually nothing new about it. It was originally launched for the PSP (PlayStation Personal) and Nintendo DS (dual screen - new generation of GameBoy). The tutorial is borrowed from the PSP version, while it retains the mini games from the DS version.