You'd have to have the heart of a rock not to giggle when Ralph runs off a cliff and stands there for a few seconds before realising it in true 'toon style, and then plunging to his doom. The humour is definitely evocatively Warner Bros., and if you're a Looney Tunes fan, you'll almost certainly be an admirer. It's irritating in some places, and desperately frustrating in others, because trying to jump across slippery ice blocks whilst being forced to look at the wall around the corner isn't too healthy. The only annoying thing we've discovered, other than trying to remember which in-game symbol represents which button, is the camera it'll often leave you looking at a wall when you walk around a corner, and although it's supposedly controllable, the camera-turn buttons fail to work. In any case, it's pleasing enough to look at, with some effects fantastically rendered. The game is cell shaded, a la Jet Set Radio, although why you'd try and make a cartoon look more cartoony isn't quite clear. sketches, character drawings, renders, and other nifty extras are available - they're a definite incentive to go that little bit further. To spur you on, each level has a hidden secret bonus, and you can save up these bonuses to 'purchase' special items in between levels. It's mostly self-explanatory, and greatly helps your progress, unless of course you're playing the French language version that we inexplicably seem to have been sent. You can also flick to a map screen, which contains hints for the items you are using. Until you work it out, of course.Īt infrequent times, Daffy Duck is there to help you out with hints and instructions, although sometimes he's tricky to get to.
One thing's for certain - it's extremely frustrating, and hellishly difficult in places. Depending on what items and techniques you use, there's generally always a choice of actions, which adds an extra layer of fun.
The best thing about the levels is that there's never just one solution. Certainly you'll be required to use your brain to get past most levels, although we advise you think out of the box (or rather into the loony tune) to find the solution. Rather than the simplistic kids title you might expect, it's more of a sneak-em-up platform puzzler hybrid with a generous dollop of Warner Bros. He can hide in bushes, disguise himself as a sheep, use rocket packs, lay trails of cabbages, push rocks, tie himself to trees with elastic, blow things up. Ralph can sneak, sprint, jump, and use an array of over thirty in-game objects to help him along his way (most of which are, of course, made by the ubiquitous ACME factory).
The idea is to steal one sheep per level from the slowly dwindling flock without being caught by Sam.
Controls might be a little hard to grapple with, but once the principle is grasped, all you need is to lose your sense of normality and you're away. Essentially, it's a platform puzzler, more suited to a console than PC, but surprisingly it's a lot of fun. affair based around a dethpickable gameshow, hosted by none other than Daffy Duck - and there'll be plenty more Warner favourites popping up as you progress through the game. Sheep, Dog and Wolf follows the adventures of Wyle Coyote's lesser known cousin Ralph Wolf as he attempts to steal sheep from a flock under the watchful eyes of Sam Sheepdog. Okay, it's perhaps the most bizarrely named game so far this year, but for once this title isn't a total dog (not even a sheep dog.
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