ICE AGE 2 THE MELTDOWN

Ice Age 2: The Meltdown takes you back in time for a great adventure! The world is melting and your Ice Age pals need help escaping from the rising waters. Swim, splash, scamper and scurry through all the action and adventure from the new Ice Age 2 movie and unearth fun, laughter and surprises along the way!

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2492 in Video Games
  


• Brand: Vivendi Universal


• Model: 72632


• Released on: 2006-12-05


• ESRB Rating: Everyone 10


• Platform: Nintendo Wii


• Dimensions: 1.00 pounds
  

• Play as the wacky characters from the animated movie - Scrat, Manny, Diego and Sid


• Dive into a huge variety of exciting mini-games - like Sid's slippery sloth slide challenge


• Journey through the amazing worlds of the Ice Age 2 movie. And explore a few new ones, too!

I love it!

I bought this game as a present and it was opened and used on my own machine. We both loved it . After the holiday I will get one of my own.

A good kid's game, but not so good controls

This game is based on the 'ice age' movie (features voice from original actors too). You play the 'squirrel-like' character, Scrat, and go through many areas of frozen ice, forests, mud swamps, volcanoes and glaciers collecting nuts. It involves running, jumping, climbing walls, swinging on vines, fighting some 'angry creatures', diving through water etc. There are also several mini-games (not a lot of them), but with varying themes and motion-controls.



The game is more for a fun experience than for challenge (for experienced platform gamers). You just enjoy going through those beautiful landscapes collecting nuts and playing the mini games. The sceneries are very pretty and the cut scences are nice (dvd quality on the wii).



- The controls for moving Scrat are not that good. There is not much intuitive motion controls there like in the mini games. You just push buttons for a lot of movements.

- You can only save the games in A,B or C options; you cannot save by your name. It seems such an easy thing to include - kids like personalizing their game.

-I was disappointed that you can't play the mini games alone even after completing the game. You have to go through the game again to do that (too boring). One solution is to 'save' the game at points where the minigames start and load them whenever you want to play a minigame. There are only three slots for saving the game though :(



Overall, it is a game for fun and enjoying with family. I got in in marketplace for less than $20, and I know my son would play it for quiet a while - so, no complaints.

A Little Hard For Kids

I bought this for my 10 and 4 yr old boys and it really has not held their interest. It uses the nunchuck remote, and is only 1 player. Scrat runs around collecting acorns and things, etc etc. My 4 yr old is able to steer scrat and even able to get him to swim (which is a little hard), but the boys just think it is boring. The mini-games I think we have to unlock. The manual does not tell you a whole lot of info. It is a game where you have to get to the end, and they just aren't into that yet..but if your child IS into that..this is really cute! The graphics are excellent and they have the same voices.