Sheep is a puzzle developed by Mind's Eye, released 6 November 2000 on PlayStation 3, PlayStation Portable, PlayStation and Mac.
What Sheep is
Sheep is a puzzle game developed by Mind's Eye and released in 2000. It was published by 1C Company. It is available on PlayStation 3, PlayStation Portable, PlayStation, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).
The premise, in the publisher's words
The basic premise of this game is that sheep were once intelligent beings from the planet Ovis Aries. These smart sheep sent a group of their species to Earth millions of years ago to learn about Earth's society and customs. Unfortunately their ship was damaged on the trip which left them stuck on planet Earth. As the years passed they forgot their mission, they soon became domesticated by mankind. Now their ancestors have come back to Earth to regain the lost sheep and stop the evil plan of mad scientist Mr. Pear. In order to keep their presence unknown they abduct 2 humans (Adam Halfpint and BoPeep) and 2 dogs (Motley and Shep) and implant them with the desire and will to herd sheep like…
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are comedy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
How it was received
Sheep holds a critic score of 70 out of 100. That places it above 31% of the 2,791 rated puzzle games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2000 averaged 72, so it scored 2 points below the year average.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Pentium II 233 MHz, 32 MB RAM and Any videoadapter with 4 MB of RAM. At 0GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 1GB.
What it launched against
Sheep launched on 6 November 2000, within three weeks of Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2, Unreal Tournament: Game of the Year Edition, Counter-Strike and Escape from Monkey Island. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2, Unreal Tournament: Game of the Year Edition, Counter-Strike, Escape from Monkey Island.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel. See all 2 videos →
Screenshots
All media
Dlc
Quick answers
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