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 Mac OS X by Feral Interactive. The Game Boy Advance version was supposed to be released in North America in the spring of 2002, but was canceled for unknown reasons. 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 (Factorial, Longwool, NeoGenetic, and Pastoral), 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 (in this version, you are riding a sheep, and have to collect the trapped sheep in bubbles). 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. "Sheep" received "mixed or average reviews" on all platforms according to the review aggregation website Metacritic. "AllGame" gave the PC version four stars out of five and called it "an impressive package, not only in that it delivers a highly addictive and well-executed game, but also because the premise is simple, well thought out and executed flawlessly." Daniel Erickson of "Next Generation" said that the same PC version was "As brilliant and original as "Lemmings" was in its day." In Japan, where  the PlayStation version was ported and published by Syscom on 14 June 2001, followed by the Game Boy Advance version by Capcom under the name on 19 April 2002, "Famitsu" gave it a score of 28 out of 40 for the latter version, and 24 out of 40 for the former. "Nintendo Power" gave the GBA version a favorable review a few months before its supposed release date, and "GamePro" also gave it a favorable review before it was canceled for unknown reasons. "Computer Games Strategy Plus" nominated the PC version for their 2000 "Classic Game of the Year" award