Sheep (video game)


Sheep is a strategy puzzle video game released for PlayStation, Microsoft Windows and Game Boy Advance. In 2001 it was released for OS X by Feral Interactive.

Gameplay

Sheep bears some resemblance to the video game Lemmings. The player can choose between 4 herders, the people Adam Halfpint and Bo Peep, and the dogs Motley and Shep.
The player must then guide sheep of 4 types, actually aliens from the planet Ovis Aries, through a series of obstacles to the finish line in the level.
There are a series of different worlds, starting with Polygon Farm and on to others, such as Village Fete and Lost in Space. If you collect all the golden sheep trophies in a world, you get to play a bonus game, devised from some other, like Snake.
The obstacles between you and victory vary from world to world, including tractors, knights, archers and demonic chefs. Eventually, you must thwart the schemes of the mad scientist Mr. Pear and his hench-cows.

Reception

Daniel Erickson reviewed the PC version of the game for Next Generation, rating it four stars out of five, and stated that "As brilliant and original as Lemmings was in its day."
Sheep received mixed reviews. Aggregating review websites GameRankings and Metacritic gave the PlayStation version 74.14% and 71/100, the PC version 74.08% and 73/100 and the Game Boy Advance version 69.67% and 67/100.
The editors of Computer Games Magazine nominated Sheep for their 2000 "Classic Game of the Year" award.