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Best of Sheep, Dog 'n' Wolf
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5/5 |
Great fun and captures the spirit of the looney tunes orginal perfectly
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This game is based on the classic Warner Brother cartoons of the 1950s. You play Wile E Coyote (`genius') and your adversary is the anything but dumb Ralf the sheepdog. The graphics and game-play emulate the cartoon original perfectly, where you have to sneak up past Ralf and steal the sheep he is guarding. If he sees you sparks fly, but if you succeed you get rewarded with entry to the next level. The games are really puzzles where you collect various mainly ACME supplied items to complete your sheep rustling task. My son (now 11) likes this game a lot - but he has hundreds of others, mainly PS2 ones, so he only gets this game going once in a while now. The game-play is a bit hard in places as it takes a lot of coyote head-scratching to work out what you need and in what combination, and my son resorts to on-line walkthroughs to complete some levels. The great grand-canyon back-drops make the view interesting, although mainly you are concentrating on the back of Ralph's head.
The only downside is that the game isn't very XP friendly at all (it was fine under Windows 98SE). We have NVidia and ATI based graphics XP Pro computers, and on all of them the game keeps crashing just past the intro sequence. You can get it working in most cases though by reducing the sound (and possibly graphics) acceleration - all our PC's have separate Creative PCI sound cards and it may be their drivers causing problems. So, if necessary, go to Start, Control Panel, Sounds & Audio Devices. Under Audio, Advanced, Performance, try sliding back the hardware acceleration a notch at a time each time you run the game, until the crashes stop. If this doesn't work on its own, also go to Display, Settings, Advanced, Troubleshooting, Hardware Acceleration, and try sliding this down a notch or two (also try un-clicking the enable write combining option). This is quite easy to do but may require a PC restart. When you have finished with the game reset them all back to full acceleration (and note what you did). This has got the game going every time, and believe me the game is novel, funny and interesting enough to make it worth the effort. |
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