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School today is based on one thing - Popularity. Gone are the days when children used to get up in a morning to enrich their minds with knowledge, now their inspiration to make the long haul out of bed is Popularity. Those who have it use their powers for great evil and those that don't have it get bullied. It has changed millions of people's lives, but yet it has not been made into a game - yet.
We've all been there - the first day of a new school. The Popularity Game puts you straight into the heart of this situation - should you stick with your geeky mates from Primary school or try and mix in with an entirely new crowd? You choose in this FPS (First Person School-em-up). Everything you do in the game depends on these few moments. Go up to your old mates and you'll be fighting an uphill image battle for the nest few years, but go up to the 'in' crowd and start an uncool topic and it will take an awful lot of button-bashing to reverse it.
It is this early on that the game introduces you to the 'Respect Points' system. This is how you are ranked in the game, and is everything the game is based around. You get RP's for doing certain things like having an attitude, wearig the right boots and even watching the correct TV programmes. Watch your ranking soar to the top as you hang out with the right crowd, eat junk food, smoke and generally be anti-social. But you can watch it plummet as you complete your homework, let a teacher say 'willy' without laughing, being nice to people and wear your bag on 2 shoulders... Popularity is such a fickle thing.
From that day on you take control of your own little computerised person - Every break, every dinner, every after school time is in YOUR hands, and literally anything is possible, all through the use of cleverly devised mini - games...
Smash Windows and Run
Take your choice of rock, choose a window of the school and throw, using a handy power bar to decide if your shots hit or miss. This one gains you HUGE respect points amongst mates, and is great for multiplayer as you battle it out to see 'Who will get caught first'.
Peer Pressure Pursuit
Smash your buttons to fill the power bar to give in to your mates complaining - Start of on the easiest level, Being asked to tell a Teacher to 'shut up', which involves a simple 1 button hammering manouvre, up to the hardest level, Stealing a Car, which asks you to pull off precise combo's at the speed of light to succeed.
Beat the Geeks
Annoyed at people getting better marks that you in class? Fed-up with people actually getting questions correct? This mini-game sees you get your revenge as you steal those nerds football and take the mickey out of them as you use your dazzling skills (i.e. Popularity) to show - up those brain-boxes. Tricks like Pushing, Shoving, Blasting the ball in peoples faces, tripping and hurling abuse help you to reach your goal of keeping the ball for 10 minutes straight before hitting it over the fence. There are certain obsticles to be missed though - Grasses, Teachers and Nerds fighting back are all possiblities in this free flowing football frenzy, and all can be defeated via certain tactics, which makes this a certain for lovers of ISS and FIFA.
Group Fighting
You and 10 of your mates take on 1 member of the year yunger than you in this fanatical fighting simulator. SMILE as you push them around a circle. JOKE as your mates pin him down as you smack him in the face. LAUGH as the pathetic little person attempts to fight back. There are 5 Levels of difficulty to chhose from - Very Easy - You and 20 others take on the weakest person in school, Easy - You and 15 others take on a member of the year yonger than you, Normal - Fight it out with 10 mates as you take on the hardest in the year below you, Hard - Take on a member of your year with only 2 other mates and sharp objects and Very Hard, where you do the ever frustrating task of havng to fight BY YOURSELF, with no weapons, against a peer. With all the blood of Mortal Kombat and all the skill of Streets of Rage it's bound to have you mindlessly tapping buttons all year long.
There are over 30 mini games for you to play including the ones above and many others like 'Getting a Detention', 'Pretend that you've got stuff when you haven't' and 'Stealing' as well 10 more to unlock during the course of the game.
Along with popularity comes girls, and this will take up a large part of your game time. Having to take the time to act tough, try to be funny and abuse teachers all with her watching, you must then pick up the courage to ask if she would like to go out with you sometime. The girl, howeer is not too important - she is just an accessory for you to use to you advantage and to get Respect Ratings - Picking a fat girl will do you no good, and you'll drop down the ratings faster than Rick Waller on a bungee jump. Pick a blonde with no personality, however, and don't be surprised to see peers praying to you as if you was a god.
All this too much for you? Well you can take control of your character in Primary School in a tutorial mode, just to get you ready for the main game. Everything has been perfectly down graded - Instead of swearing you say words like 'Poo' and 'Bum', also, insted of talking to girls, you throw stones at them. All mini games are suspended though in favour of having painting contest and battles with POG's (new fad's are downloadable).
'Popularity - The Game' is planned to be out by Summer, with a girl version, including nail scratching fights, hair pulling and long complecated storylines that all boil down to nothing, scheduled for a 2004 release.
We've all been there - the first day of a new school. The Popularity Game puts you straight into the heart of this situation - should you stick with your geeky mates from Primary school or try and mix in with an entirely new crowd? You choose in this FPS (First Person School-em-up). Everything you do in the game depends on these few moments. Go up to your old mates and you'll be fighting an uphill image battle for the nest few years, but go up to the 'in' crowd and start an uncool topic and it will take an awful lot of button-bashing to reverse it.
It is this early on that the game introduces you to the 'Respect Points' system. This is how you are ranked in the game, and is everything the game is based around. You get RP's for doing certain things like having an attitude, wearig the right boots and even watching the correct TV programmes. Watch your ranking soar to the top as you hang out with the right crowd, eat junk food, smoke and generally be anti-social. But you can watch it plummet as you complete your homework, let a teacher say 'willy' without laughing, being nice to people and wear your bag on 2 shoulders... Popularity is such a fickle thing.
From that day on you take control of your own little computerised person - Every break, every dinner, every after school time is in YOUR hands, and literally anything is possible, all through the use of cleverly devised mini - games...
Smash Windows and Run
Take your choice of rock, choose a window of the school and throw, using a handy power bar to decide if your shots hit or miss. This one gains you HUGE respect points amongst mates, and is great for multiplayer as you battle it out to see 'Who will get caught first'.
Peer Pressure Pursuit
Smash your buttons to fill the power bar to give in to your mates complaining - Start of on the easiest level, Being asked to tell a Teacher to 'shut up', which involves a simple 1 button hammering manouvre, up to the hardest level, Stealing a Car, which asks you to pull off precise combo's at the speed of light to succeed.
Beat the Geeks
Annoyed at people getting better marks that you in class? Fed-up with people actually getting questions correct? This mini-game sees you get your revenge as you steal those nerds football and take the mickey out of them as you use your dazzling skills (i.e. Popularity) to show - up those brain-boxes. Tricks like Pushing, Shoving, Blasting the ball in peoples faces, tripping and hurling abuse help you to reach your goal of keeping the ball for 10 minutes straight before hitting it over the fence. There are certain obsticles to be missed though - Grasses, Teachers and Nerds fighting back are all possiblities in this free flowing football frenzy, and all can be defeated via certain tactics, which makes this a certain for lovers of ISS and FIFA.
Group Fighting
You and 10 of your mates take on 1 member of the year yunger than you in this fanatical fighting simulator. SMILE as you push them around a circle. JOKE as your mates pin him down as you smack him in the face. LAUGH as the pathetic little person attempts to fight back. There are 5 Levels of difficulty to chhose from - Very Easy - You and 20 others take on the weakest person in school, Easy - You and 15 others take on a member of the year yonger than you, Normal - Fight it out with 10 mates as you take on the hardest in the year below you, Hard - Take on a member of your year with only 2 other mates and sharp objects and Very Hard, where you do the ever frustrating task of havng to fight BY YOURSELF, with no weapons, against a peer. With all the blood of Mortal Kombat and all the skill of Streets of Rage it's bound to have you mindlessly tapping buttons all year long.
There are over 30 mini games for you to play including the ones above and many others like 'Getting a Detention', 'Pretend that you've got stuff when you haven't' and 'Stealing' as well 10 more to unlock during the course of the game.
Along with popularity comes girls, and this will take up a large part of your game time. Having to take the time to act tough, try to be funny and abuse teachers all with her watching, you must then pick up the courage to ask if she would like to go out with you sometime. The girl, howeer is not too important - she is just an accessory for you to use to you advantage and to get Respect Ratings - Picking a fat girl will do you no good, and you'll drop down the ratings faster than Rick Waller on a bungee jump. Pick a blonde with no personality, however, and don't be surprised to see peers praying to you as if you was a god.
All this too much for you? Well you can take control of your character in Primary School in a tutorial mode, just to get you ready for the main game. Everything has been perfectly down graded - Instead of swearing you say words like 'Poo' and 'Bum', also, insted of talking to girls, you throw stones at them. All mini games are suspended though in favour of having painting contest and battles with POG's (new fad's are downloadable).
'Popularity - The Game' is planned to be out by Summer, with a girl version, including nail scratching fights, hair pulling and long complecated storylines that all boil down to nothing, scheduled for a 2004 release.
I love you - I wish I could be just like yu. I praise your every step.
HAHA. Brilliant idea for a game. Well done Tribbers, now err, go make this game. Yeah...
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Good - That is how they choose Gameaday nowadays.
Yes. Indeed. I read the first line.
School today is based on one thing - Popularity. Gone are the days when children used to get up in a morning to enrich their minds with knowledge, now their inspiration to make the long haul out of bed is Popularity. Those who have it use their powers for great evil and those that don't have it get bullied. It has changed millions of people's lives, but yet it has not been made into a game - yet.
We've all been there - the first day of a new school. The Popularity Game puts you straight into the heart of this situation - should you stick with your geeky mates from Primary school or try and mix in with an entirely new crowd? You choose in this FPS (First Person School-em-up). Everything you do in the game depends on these few moments. Go up to your old mates and you'll be fighting an uphill image battle for the nest few years, but go up to the 'in' crowd and start an uncool topic and it will take an awful lot of button-bashing to reverse it.
It is this early on that the game introduces you to the 'Respect Points' system. This is how you are ranked in the game, and is everything the game is based around. You get RP's for doing certain things like having an attitude, wearig the right boots and even watching the correct TV programmes. Watch your ranking soar to the top as you hang out with the right crowd, eat junk food, smoke and generally be anti-social. But you can watch it plummet as you complete your homework, let a teacher say 'willy' without laughing, being nice to people and wear your bag on 2 shoulders... Popularity is such a fickle thing.
From that day on you take control of your own little computerised person - Every break, every dinner, every after school time is in YOUR hands, and literally anything is possible, all through the use of cleverly devised mini - games...
Smash Windows and Run
Take your choice of rock, choose a window of the school and throw, using a handy power bar to decide if your shots hit or miss. This one gains you HUGE respect points amongst mates, and is great for multiplayer as you battle it out to see 'Who will get caught first'.
Peer Pressure Pursuit
Smash your buttons to fill the power bar to give in to your mates complaining - Start of on the easiest level, Being asked to tell a Teacher to 'shut up', which involves a simple 1 button hammering manouvre, up to the hardest level, Stealing a Car, which asks you to pull off precise combo's at the speed of light to succeed.
Beat the Geeks
Annoyed at people getting better marks that you in class? Fed-up with people actually getting questions correct? This mini-game sees you get your revenge as you steal those nerds football and take the mickey out of them as you use your dazzling skills (i.e. Popularity) to show - up those brain-boxes. Tricks like Pushing, Shoving, Blasting the ball in peoples faces, tripping and hurling abuse help you to reach your goal of keeping the ball for 10 minutes straight before hitting it over the fence. There are certain obsticles to be missed though - Grasses, Teachers and Nerds fighting back are all possiblities in this free flowing football frenzy, and all can be defeated via certain tactics, which makes this a certain for lovers of ISS and FIFA.
Group Fighting
You and 10 of your mates take on 1 member of the year yunger than you in this fanatical fighting simulator. SMILE as you push them around a circle. JOKE as your mates pin him down as you smack him in the face. LAUGH as the pathetic little person attempts to fight back. There are 5 Levels of difficulty to chhose from - Very Easy - You and 20 others take on the weakest person in school, Easy - You and 15 others take on a member of the year yonger than you, Normal - Fight it out with 10 mates as you take on the hardest in the year below you, Hard - Take on a member of your year with only 2 other mates and sharp objects and Very Hard, where you do the ever frustrating task of havng to fight BY YOURSELF, with no weapons, against a peer. With all the blood of Mortal Kombat and all the skill of Streets of Rage it's bound to have you mindlessly tapping buttons all year long.
There are over 30 mini games for you to play including the ones above and many others like 'Getting a Detention', 'Pretend that you've got stuff when you haven't' and 'Stealing' as well 10 more to unlock during the course of the game.
Along with popularity comes girls, and this will take up a large part of your game time. Having to take the time to act tough, try to be funny and abuse teachers all with her watching, you must then pick up the courage to ask if she would like to go out with you sometime. The girl, howeer is not too important - she is just an accessory for you to use to you advantage and to get Respect Ratings - Picking a fat girl will do you no good, and you'll drop down the ratings faster than Rick Waller on a bungee jump. Pick a blonde with no personality, however, and don't be surprised to see peers praying to you as if you was a god.
All this too much for you? Well you can take control of your character in Primary School in a tutorial mode, just to get you ready for the main game. Everything has been perfectly down graded - Instead of swearing you say words like 'Poo' and 'Bum', also, insted of talking to girls, you throw stones at them. All mini games are suspended though in favour of having painting contest and battles with POG's (new fad's are downloadable).
'Popularity - The Game' is planned to be out by Summer, with a girl version, including nail scratching fights, hair pulling and long complecated storylines that all boil down to nothing, scheduled for a 2004 release.
We've all been there - the first day of a new school. The Popularity Game puts you straight into the heart of this situation - should you stick with your geeky mates from Primary school or try and mix in with an entirely new crowd? You choose in this FPS (First Person School-em-up). Everything you do in the game depends on these few moments. Go up to your old mates and you'll be fighting an uphill image battle for the nest few years, but go up to the 'in' crowd and start an uncool topic and it will take an awful lot of button-bashing to reverse it.
It is this early on that the game introduces you to the 'Respect Points' system. This is how you are ranked in the game, and is everything the game is based around. You get RP's for doing certain things like having an attitude, wearig the right boots and even watching the correct TV programmes. Watch your ranking soar to the top as you hang out with the right crowd, eat junk food, smoke and generally be anti-social. But you can watch it plummet as you complete your homework, let a teacher say 'willy' without laughing, being nice to people and wear your bag on 2 shoulders... Popularity is such a fickle thing.
From that day on you take control of your own little computerised person - Every break, every dinner, every after school time is in YOUR hands, and literally anything is possible, all through the use of cleverly devised mini - games...
Smash Windows and Run
Take your choice of rock, choose a window of the school and throw, using a handy power bar to decide if your shots hit or miss. This one gains you HUGE respect points amongst mates, and is great for multiplayer as you battle it out to see 'Who will get caught first'.
Peer Pressure Pursuit
Smash your buttons to fill the power bar to give in to your mates complaining - Start of on the easiest level, Being asked to tell a Teacher to 'shut up', which involves a simple 1 button hammering manouvre, up to the hardest level, Stealing a Car, which asks you to pull off precise combo's at the speed of light to succeed.
Beat the Geeks
Annoyed at people getting better marks that you in class? Fed-up with people actually getting questions correct? This mini-game sees you get your revenge as you steal those nerds football and take the mickey out of them as you use your dazzling skills (i.e. Popularity) to show - up those brain-boxes. Tricks like Pushing, Shoving, Blasting the ball in peoples faces, tripping and hurling abuse help you to reach your goal of keeping the ball for 10 minutes straight before hitting it over the fence. There are certain obsticles to be missed though - Grasses, Teachers and Nerds fighting back are all possiblities in this free flowing football frenzy, and all can be defeated via certain tactics, which makes this a certain for lovers of ISS and FIFA.
Group Fighting
You and 10 of your mates take on 1 member of the year yunger than you in this fanatical fighting simulator. SMILE as you push them around a circle. JOKE as your mates pin him down as you smack him in the face. LAUGH as the pathetic little person attempts to fight back. There are 5 Levels of difficulty to chhose from - Very Easy - You and 20 others take on the weakest person in school, Easy - You and 15 others take on a member of the year yonger than you, Normal - Fight it out with 10 mates as you take on the hardest in the year below you, Hard - Take on a member of your year with only 2 other mates and sharp objects and Very Hard, where you do the ever frustrating task of havng to fight BY YOURSELF, with no weapons, against a peer. With all the blood of Mortal Kombat and all the skill of Streets of Rage it's bound to have you mindlessly tapping buttons all year long.
There are over 30 mini games for you to play including the ones above and many others like 'Getting a Detention', 'Pretend that you've got stuff when you haven't' and 'Stealing' as well 10 more to unlock during the course of the game.
Along with popularity comes girls, and this will take up a large part of your game time. Having to take the time to act tough, try to be funny and abuse teachers all with her watching, you must then pick up the courage to ask if she would like to go out with you sometime. The girl, howeer is not too important - she is just an accessory for you to use to you advantage and to get Respect Ratings - Picking a fat girl will do you no good, and you'll drop down the ratings faster than Rick Waller on a bungee jump. Pick a blonde with no personality, however, and don't be surprised to see peers praying to you as if you was a god.
All this too much for you? Well you can take control of your character in Primary School in a tutorial mode, just to get you ready for the main game. Everything has been perfectly down graded - Instead of swearing you say words like 'Poo' and 'Bum', also, insted of talking to girls, you throw stones at them. All mini games are suspended though in favour of having painting contest and battles with POG's (new fad's are downloadable).
'Popularity - The Game' is planned to be out by Summer, with a girl version, including nail scratching fights, hair pulling and long complecated storylines that all boil down to nothing, scheduled for a 2004 release.