Customer Reviews

Ice Age 2: The Meltdown

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My family and I LOVED the movie Ice Age 2, and so, of course, my 7 year old wanted the game for PS2!

I was hesitant to pay the $ for it, but decided to get it for him. Boy, is it worth the money!

Both of us have played the game for HOURS today and yesterday, and it's truly a lot of fun. Playing as Scrat, you roam through different areas collecting acorns (think Spyro collecting gems or Curious George collecting bananas). Small brown acorns (1 point), medium green acorns (5 points) and chestnuts (20 points) go towards unlocking bonuses. In each area, there are walnuts that Scrat has to find in order to leave the area and go on to the next one. He can also get fruit from trees and bushes, which helps to replenish his energy. If you use the sniff function (L1), it will help you find hidden fruit.

Throughout the game, there are sparkling signs. When you press the triangle button, a hint appears. (Early in the game, the hints are straightforward. As the game progresses, though, you have to think creatively. No worries if you're stuck. You can choose a Hint button that helps.)

Scrat can also interact with objects. For example, some acorns are buried in the ground (you can see the tops), and you have to use the triangle button to dig them out. If his energy meter starts to run down because of fighting with rodents and other animals, you can replenish it by interacting with flowers and collecting their petals. Some games (and enemies) need to be combated with pebbles, so when Scrat is close to a pebble pile, he can collect up to 25 at a time.

The mini-games are a blast, too...and not exactly easy! The first one, Sid's Slide on "The Eviscerator", has you going down several long slides with the goal of getting at leat 7,000 points at the end. To get these points, you slide on acorns and chestnuts, go through gates, and use the directional button for mid-air flip routines. However, watch out for falling ice! Every time you run into a piece of ice--or miss a directional challenge sequence--points are deducted!

Another fun mini-game is penguin bowling (the penguins are the pins!). You have to score 100 points before you move to the next part of the game. There's a monkey shooting gallery, a Whac-a-Mole-type game, and other fun (but challenging!) mini-games.

Scrat find himself climbing up walls (some are slippery!), swinging on vines, climbing trees, jumping ledges and through treetops, swimming underwater (he has a bubble meter showing how much air he has left!), etc. He even gets helps from other creatures, like when he must climb on the back of a swamp bird in order to get to higher ledges.

There are 5 levels at each place, including the ice/water park, the forest, the mud bog, the sloth village, and more (we're not through the game yet).

Although my son is a pretty experienced platform gamer (Sly Cooper, Crash Bandicoot, the Spyro series, etc.), he still needs my help on some of the sections. For example, I had to do Sid's Slide about 4 or 5 times before I finally accumulated 7,000 points! This game is great for kids and adults alike, but since the hints have to be read (they're not spoken) this could prove problematic for beginner readers.

Also, if you're skittish about kids hitting animals or adolescent humor like fart games (no joke...one of the games has a Fructose Bear who has a Fart meter that helps propel Scrat to acorns on ledges LOL), then you may want to think twice about the game. But if your child is used to mild "cartoon violence" and humor like I've described, I think you'll be delighted and amused with this game.

This game is the best Playstation 2 game I have yet to play. It is so addictive and sooo much fun for all ages. My 10 year old and I kept taking turns on trying to figure out the different levels....the animation is hilarious and you cannot possibly get bored with it.....love it, love it, love it.....went into withdrawel after we completed the game.....

You get to BE Scrat! Now if you're a huge Scrat fan like I am, this should be enough for you... I rented this also worried that it would be another kid's game with no real gameplay. I saw on the back that Scrat is a playable character- and it turns out that aside from a Sid mini-game, Scrat is THE character you play as through the whole game!! I think the review above pretty much covers all the game details, but I have to agree that it's fun, not just for kids - you have to figure things out. There's the collecting element for Spyro fans. Back to Scrat. He has a range of little attacks and motions that you can prance around doing forever! Kicks, sniffing, jumping. I was sad when the game came to an end, because I would have loved to keep running through levels as Scrat, defeating animals, swimming, squeezing through trees, playing games like bowling and playing dead, and just being adorable!

I was a little suspicious about this game thinking it might be too kiddish.Anyways i bought it and well 10 mins into the game and i was actually enjoying it.
Its a nice game the graphics could be better but a nice gameplay and is nice and easy.
I play it when i get tired of all the bloodshed in the other games,i switch to this game for just plain fun.
My small cousin bro who is 9 just loves it.
A game that kids will love and all the rest(above10yrs) can play for plain fun.

The games is grate my son loves it. It had a few marks on it but we got it fix. Took three weeks to get it, it wasn't a big deal as long as my son is happy i'm happy

Truly enjoyable and funny game...especially for those that loved the character of "Scrat" in the movie "Ice Age 2: The Meltdown". That's right, you play as Scrat, the silly and determined acorn-hungry prehistoric squirrel. And, even on the tiniest chance that you never heard of the movie or Scrat, you will still enjoy this game. I purchased it for my 3 year old grandson and have laughed hysterically with him at Scrat's antics. It was a little hard for him to play on his own at first, since reading is involved (little help signs--hints on hidden areas and the maneuvering of Scrat), but once the messages were explained to him...he did just fine and loves the game. Am sure that older kids (as well as parents and grandparents!) will get a kick out of it too...beautiful graphics, lots to do, lots of places to explore and really funny. I would highly recommend this game to players of all ages.

The graphics are right on. The game plays amazing on the different levels. This game is truly "E" for everyone. I finished the games and went back to the beginning to start over.

Oh,man do I love this game. It doesn't contain much cartoon violance and I'm still confused about wwhy this game is rated E for everyone ages 10+.I mean the game is like kind of easy once you get the hang of it.The only hard part of it is the beat the clock challenges.See,I have a 5-year old brother who played this game and he knew how to play it, just like that.You know what my favorite character to play with is scrat. Scrat is a good player and he's more fun. You know else is good about the game? They have the people from the movie,they had Ray Romano,John Leguazamo,Dennis Leary,and Josh Peck.Like I said,this game is totally adorable.

My granddaughter really likes this game. It was a big hit at Christmas.

This was an excellent game loads of fun, adventure beautiful graphics! My daughter and I played this several times. It never got frustrating.