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Ice Age 2: The Meltdown

by Vivendi Universal
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4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)

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Product Features

Platform: PlayStation2
  • 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!

Product Details

Platform: PlayStation2
  • Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
  • ASIN: B000ECX0AQ
  • Product Dimensions: 7 x 5.5 x 0.8 inches ; 4 ounces
  • Media: Video Game
  • Release Date: March 14, 2006
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #8,718 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)

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Platform: PlayStation2

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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!

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43 of 43 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Great Graphics and Great Game Play, April 10, 2006
Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 
This review is from: Ice Age 2: The Meltdown (Video Game)
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.
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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Family Fun, August 16, 2006
By T. Bradshaw (Nitro, WV) - See all my reviews
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Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 
This review is from: Ice Age 2: The Meltdown (Video 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.....
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars BE Scrat! Must have for Scrat-fans.., June 24, 2006
Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 
This review is from: Ice Age 2: The Meltdown (Video 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!
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