![]() ![]() Being a game for younger players, difficulty is nearly nonexistent, and violence is watered down. Aside from following his nose (Toucan Sam's lawyers are on their way over right now) and being a basic platform hero, Scrat also has a set of context-sensitive abilities one early sequence, for instance, requires him to play dead to avoid being spotted. More notably, being a wild opossum-thing, he can sniff out hidden treasures and dig nuts out of the ground, as needed. To collect his acorns, Scrat has the typical assortment of moves ranging from the traditional reality-bending and physically-impossible double jump (a staple of every platformer ever) to crazed flailing which just happens to be much like someone inadvertently pulling off Mad Kung-fu Skillz (sic). Collect enough acorns in one world, and you unlock a hidden feature, usually a small bit of behind-the-scenes video. Along the way, you'll collect less impressive acorns ranging from brown ones worth a single acorn to green ones worth five, to mysteriously spiky chestnuts worth more. This golden acorn is your resident McGuffin, your unobtainable prize to keep striving for. In order to differentiate Scrat's most precious of acorns from the rest, someone helpfully painted the entire nut bright, shiny gold, it seems. The entirety of his movie appearances involve him chasing down a painfully elusive acorn, and the game is much the same. No, get your minds out of the gutter I'm talking about acorns here. ![]() To be honest, the game immediately brings to mind Spyro the Dragon, albeit a significant notch easier. Hey, nobody ever said kids' movies had to have compelling titles.Īs far as the game itself, it's standard platform fare. That, obviously, is why the movie is subtitled The Meltdown. Blame holes in the ozone layer, global warming, or too many fart jokes, but the fact of the matter is that the ice age for which the movie takes its name is ending, and all that ice, which is pretty much everywhere, is melting at a nice, speedy clip. In the sequel, though, things are a bit more. That game, the game presented for your perusal today, is Ice Age 2: The Meltdown.įor anyone who hasn't had kids in their household for the past five years, the original Ice Age followed the travels of Sid, a sloth Manny, a mammoth and Diego, a, er, something-that-doesn't-start-with-the-letter-d as they came across a child of early-evolution humans and took it back home. That said, it always helps to instill a sense of dread to find that on your doorstep waits a game that came out before the movie – a sequel, mind you – even premiered in theaters, a game with a manual bearing fewer pages than a bus pamphlet. As I've stated many times before, games licensed from movies are occasionally playable, but much more regularly flounder in sheer horrificness. As far as respect goes, movie games aren't exactly the top of the hill. ![]()
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