Sheeple Chase

Gen cert, Green Ant Games, iPod (also iPhone) ***

Colourful and lively, with goofy music (dig that banjo!), Sheeple Chase is a fiendishly addictive game. It's also got personality. Taking a lot of influence, especially in character design, from Shaun the Sheep, Sheeple Chase is a 2D racing game. This downhill race against some mean-faced pigs happens pretty fast, and you have ponds, cows and other obstacles to avoid. There are power-ups, ramps and bonuses as well. The power-ups are as mundane as a turnip or a shearing, which is quaint. It's a fun concoction, though they really shouldn't have bothered with the jokes. They're bad puns not because they're corny, but because they make little sense: "Keep on the straight and marrow," it says before a race, or it might say that a contest was "woolly close". Eh? Lame puns aside, Sheeple Chaseis a simple, addictive little racing game; not baaaad at all. (Sorry!)