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fun game for kids

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: February 28, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I bought this game hoping that it would be good since I liked the movie. I'm not into many shooting type games and thought this game might be a nice alternative. Not only did I find it fun and creative, but my friend's kids (age 8 & 10) enjoyed playing it too. It was cute and the funny things that you have to get Scrat to do made us all laugh. The graphics seemed pretty good with this game too. We didn't have too many challenges with the background/scenery getting in the way of zooming and panning the layout.

Although the game does have some downfalls, we all liked getting into it and trying to finish the levels. There are several stories/movie clips that play in between levels. The clips clue you into the plot, if you've never seen Ice Age II the movie, but they also slows things down and can be a bit boring. Luckily you can also skip them, if you want to, by pressing the "A" button. The end was also fairly disappointing. There was no big competition with the "enemies" or any real challenge at all. There was simply a short movie clip and then the credits. Overall it was fun, but don't expect any really hard challenges or fireworks in the end.

Game was way to easy and way to short. Beat it in about 5 hours or less.

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: March 12, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I watched Ice Age: The Meltdown on Blu-Ray DVD and loved it and the main characters. So I wanted to check out the game.

Maybe I am to much of a gamer for something like this, but I wanted to take a brake from playing adult games like Doom 3, Half Life 2, Resident Evil (pick a number), GTA, so I found out that my nephew had this game. Which was great becuase I really didn't want to buy it for $30. I didn't think I would be able to sit down and beat it in one day. Games now days are very long. 20 + hours. So I was expecting it to be really long.

I was surprised and dissapointed that the only character you could be was Scrat. They did have a Sid mini game (which was the best part of the game), but you only got to do that once. The game got really boring after about 2 hours of doing the same thing over and over. Gather nuts, find the golden nuts, exit the level. You didn't even have to fight the enemies, you coudl just run away from them. They did have one boss fight which was a spider but that was it. They also had about 3-5 other little mini games that you had to do to pass on to the next level. Overal I was thinking that eventhough this is a kids game, I couldn't really see kids liking it to much, becuase it was way to simply and you did the same thign over and over. After I beat it and unlocked the secrets, which there wasn't that many to unlock, I put this game in that pile of games you have that you never want to touch again. It has no replay value at all. I know kids shouldn't be playing M rated games, but I found that they last so much longer and have a better replay value to them then this.

I wish they made this game longer and you could play with all the charaters. Also make the levels different so you woudln't get bored so fast running around collecting nuts over and over.

Kingdom Hearts 1 and 2 is also a great kids game. Very long, about 50 hours of game play.

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