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This puzzle game will be as frustrating as it is addicting.
With the exception of the Who Wants To Be a Millionaire series and a few other games, the puzzle genre hasn't benefited from any particularly entertaining games as of late. Hoping to capitalize on the lull, Empire Interactive and Mind's Eye are hard at work on Sheep - a rather unique puzzle game in which your main objective is to successfully herd sheep from the beginning of a level to the end without suffering any significant sheep-related casualties along the way. Sounds simple and shallow at first, but after playing it once, you'll quickly realize that there is much more to Sheep than just a simple game of follow the shepherd.
Believe it or not, Sheep has a story, which serves the purpose of setting up the overall humorous theme of the game. Aliens from a distant planet visit Earth and leave some of their kind on the planet to observe and nurture the crude life-forms within the environment. As these life-forms grow, the alien species eventually evolve into the lesser role of a common farm animal, known as sheep. Your goal is to get to keep the sheep out of danger and get them back to their home planet. Four different shepherds - two humans and two dogs - plan to take on the task of bringing the sheep home, but each has different abilities and attributes, forcing you to be aware that one shepherd may perform better in certain situations than the other shepherds.
Getting the woolen creatures to their final destination in the initial stages isn't too difficult, thanks to Sheep's training mode. In this mode, you have a chance to become familiar with how the game controls, how the sheep react to different kinds of herding techniques, as well as with the individual characteristics of the four shepherds and the four different kinds of sheep. You learn how obstacles - such as hurdles, catapults, and button-controlled doors - come into play; you also learn how to avoid some of the more dangerous items that appear later in the game, such as electrified fences, out-of-control tractors, jets, and knights, just to name a few. But perhaps the most important aspect of the training mode is learning to deal with the time limit, and if anything makes Sheep a challenging game, it's the limited amount of time you have to complete each level. As a shepherd, your natural instinct is to stick behind the sheep and slowly maneuver them through the stage,, but you'll quickly find out that doing so won't get you very far. The training mode teaches you when to use speed and when it's better to slow down so that that none of your sheep inadvertently fall victim to the perils of a particular level. Unfortunately, the training mode tends to teach you by trial and error, so don't be surprised to see plenty of your sheep squashed, turned into a pile of ash, or end up as victims of some other fate that's equally brutal.
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