Looney Tunes: Sheep Raider (PlayStation, 2001)

Although I don't remember the characters names ever being given in the famous but now obscure Warner Brothers Looney Tunes cartoon, 'Sheepdog and Coyote',- the characters and their unforgetable rivalry translates perfectly in this extremely well done game. (That is, once you become comfortable with the camera viewpoint angle adjusting control, which is pretty much the same on most 3D platform games, but is not able to be inverted horizontally or vertically in this games' options).

While not all of the Looney Tunes games are worth playing or even remembering, this one is a virtual masterpiece of well rounded humor, puzzles and challenges, and looks great when played on my PS2 with smoothing settings on (strangely, it looks bad on my PS3, even with smoothing settings on,- possibly an inability of the new hardware to emulate earlier video processing programming. I have found this to be an issue with audio playback of some ingame sound effects too, when playing games like the original Silent Hill on PS3, while it looks far better on both PS2 and PS3 than it did on the PS,- it looks almost like a PS2 generation game on my PS2 with smoothing on to remove pixelization and clean up of images to run at higher resolution, showing details that were not visable when played on the original Playstation console).

This game. [Sheep Raider] as do most PS1 1rst generation games, functions flawlessly on PS2 and can be played from saves made on a PS1 console or new saves, if an original PS1 memory card is used. Not sure if saves made on a PS1 that had GameShark cheats or other cheats, as the code, as that data is usually incompatable/corrupted if attempted to play on PS2. Although I was able to create a virtual memory card to play this on my PS3, it looked bad on PS3. My PS2 also has a hard drive and can create a virtual memory card, but saves cannot save directly to the hard drive and require an original PS1 memory card to copy the virtual saves to,- making the virtual memory good only for bulk storage of game saves and requiring only having one single memory card for PS1 and one for PS2, rather than several cards.