In the year 2000, an international Consortium of secret agencies plotted to assassinate The Bleating Sheep (TBS) while he was resting on his home island in the Pacific. After weeks of planning, a newly created stealth bomber was deployed to make the kill and return. On August 3, 2000 at 0400 hours, the bomber 'TIE' took off from a secret military base on the northern tip of Australia as planned. At 0922 hours on the same day, the bomber returned reporting mission accomplished, and the Consortium breathed a collective sigh of relief.
[see: mission footage 15Mb, DivX].

During the past four years, there were many unconfirmed sightings and even some grainy photos of TBS (see picture, right), but all were disregarded as hoaxes. It has now been confirmed however, much to the Consortium's embarrassment and surprise, that in fact TBS miraculously survived the attempt on his life, and during his lengthy recovery began planning revenge.

On February 28 at 2300 hours, TBS activated thousands of sleeper cell units that had infiltrated farms around the world posing as ordinary sheep. In five short hours, this massive army of part-cloned, part-cyborg gun toting sheep, had toppled governments in Europe, Australia and the Americas, with Africa, Asia and Russia following shortly after.

You are the commander of the only surviving organised resistance unit on earth, you are mankind's last hope. Fight gallantly and and defeat the enemy before there is nothing left to fight for.

Game Download

Java Web Start version:
rotbs4k.jnlp launched via Java Web Start, just click and it should run, otherwise try the self-exectuable .jar file (below).

Official 4K competition entry:
rotbs4k.jar [4096 bytes] executable .jar file, double click to launch in most operating systems or use the command java -jar rotbs4k.jar.

Controls

Game
Exit: ESC
New Game: F2
Draw all frames: F5

Tank Hull
Rotate Left: W
Rotate Right: D
Move Up: A
Move Back: S

Gun Turret
Rotate Left: Left-arrow key
Rotate Right: Right-arrow key
Fire: Up-arrow key

System Requirements

• Java 1.4.2 or better must be installed.
• Any operating system supported by Java (Mac OS X, Linux and Windows XP tested).
• Screen resolution of 1024x768 or greater (if greater, one can switch to this resolution before playing for superior performance).
• 1.7GHz CPU or better (this may seem rather high for a 4K game, but some CPU efficiency was sacrificed to save space).

Credits

Revenge of the Bleating Sheep was programmed by William Denniss.
The game binaries, source, video, this web site and story characters are Copyright © 2005, William Denniss. All Rights Reserved.