Ice Age makes the jump to the small screen in this Game Boy Advance platformer. Based on events depicted in the motion picture, Ice Age tasks players with guiding both Manny the Mammoth and Sid the Sloth through ten levels of platform-oriented action. Starting out, players control Manny who, along with the human baby Roshan, must navigate a myriad of environments while keeping saber-tooth tigers, hedgehogs, and bees at bay. To do so, Manny is capable of hurling large nuts as makeshift projectiles at any on-screen enemies. Wild animals aren't the only obstacle players will encounter, as they'll need to move a sleeping rhinoceros to advance and inhale skunk fumes to float over dangerous chasms.
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This was an interesting experience, but the gameplay is repetitive.
The story is the same as in the film, of Manny and Sid taking the child to the family, only without a budget.
Firstly, Manny's gameplay is very good, the idea of throwing the kid to pick up some objects and using his trunk to attack the enemies (apart from the sound effect when you click on the down arrow and the up arrow). The bosses that Manny faces are very easy because you simply go to the boss and pick up an item, attack the item on the boss, it's very repetitive and boring, the only one is the bird's boss fight that I didn't understand how to do at all, but I managed it.
Secondly, Sid's gameplay is the most different and difficult, you don't have to take a break because if you stand still the game camera runs away and you die, and if you lose all your lives you go back to the beginning of those stages, at least there aren't that many Sid stages in the game (if I remember 3 out of the 10 stages in the game).
Thirdly, the game's soundtrack doesn't make sense, the happy music in the underground stages is very annoying and repeats very quickly,but it's a very good soundtrack.
Lastly, one of the things is when the gas weasel lets Manny fly (I don't know how the developers came up with these ideas) there's a game over song when I first played I thought I'd lost the game (what an idiotic idea that song was).
In short, this game is good, except that Sid's stages are horrible and the bosses are boring,I hope that the second game made for the Nintendo DS will be interesting.
The story is the same as in the film, of Manny and Sid taking the child to the family, only without a budget.
Firstly, Manny's gameplay is very good, the idea of throwing the kid to pick up some objects and using his trunk to attack the enemies (apart from the sound effect when you click on the down arrow and the up arrow). The bosses that Manny faces are very easy because you simply go to the boss and pick up an item, attack the item on the boss, it's very repetitive and boring, the only one is the bird's boss fight that I didn't understand how to do at all, but I managed it.
Secondly, Sid's gameplay is the most different and difficult, you don't have to take a break because if you stand still the game camera runs away and you die, and if you lose all your lives you go back to the beginning of those stages, at least there aren't that many Sid stages in the game (if I remember 3 out of the 10 stages in the game).
Thirdly, the game's soundtrack doesn't make sense, the happy music in the underground stages is very annoying and repeats very quickly,but it's a very good soundtrack.
Lastly, one of the things is when the gas weasel lets Manny fly (I don't know how the developers came up with these ideas) there's a game over song when I first played I thought I'd lost the game (what an idiotic idea that song was).
In short, this game is good, except that Sid's stages are horrible and the bosses are boring,I hope that the second game made for the Nintendo DS will be interesting.
very very unusual game. visually only slightly below average and the music follows suit. gameplay is bad, miserable even. what makes it interesting to me is how little it has to do with ice age. i truly believe the team that made this were just shown 10-20 photos from the movie and told to make it a platformer.
this game used to piss me the fuck off oh my god i wanted to eat my gameboy out of frustration
Ice Age is one of the few games that I knew about in some detail, but never played (thanks TheLonelyGoomba), most other games on my journey through licensed games I've either never played, or touched briefly. I actually had "(That infamous one)" written next to this game in my list of potential licensed games to play. It's winter, and christmas is coming, so I decided to take a look at a few licensed games with winter or christmas theme. Ice Age has Ice in it's title, so it must have a cool feel about it, right?
Well, Ice Age does have some snow and ice in it, but for the most part it doesn't. The game is definitely a unique take on the movie, alright. You control Manny with Roshan riding him through linear platforming stages, he can jump, attack, and stomp the ground by pressing the jump button again, which can be used to break the blocks underneath or stun some enemies that can be used to bounce on, and pressing L or R will make Roshan jump, which is only useful for collecting nuts that aren't obtainable by a normal jump. You can't perform a Roshan Jump when in air or anything, so there's no cool tricks involving that, so it ends up being a rather lame gimmick. Normal enemies like Dodos can be defeated with a normal attack or jumped on, but some other enemies can be defeated or pushed away by spitting a super mega nut, which creates an element of back and forth if there are many obstacles that require nutting away. There are occasional skunks that can make Manny levitate with its bad smell, because... why not. Aside from Manny, there are autoscroll sections where you play as Sid, who is super active, and can perform a Crash Bandicoot-esque spin attack to destroy rocks or enemies. Touching the left side of the screen means death, so you must be always on the move. There are plenty of common nuts that are a main collectible of the game, and they act as health, and since each level has 40 and more (40 required for 100%ing the level), the game ends up being really easy for the most part, falling to a pit doesn't mean death for instance, and you just lose a nut and restart at the section you're on.
The level design is fairly basic for the most part, avoid enemies or hazards, some really light, practically thin puzzle elements and, as I mentioned, some back and forth. There are a few instances of trial and error, the camera isn't always very helpful, like when sliding a slope, the camera pans up instead of down where you're going. You can pan the camera by holding up or down, but it's pretty slow, and in some instances it's disabled, which doesn't make a lot of sense. At the end of each level where you control Manny, there's a boss fight. As hinted earlier, this game has rather bizzare design choices, and the bosses are pretty strange, like a giant turtle or a sleeping armadillo, or a giant eagle. The bosses are pretty easy, not just because of influx of health, but the patterns aren't very difficult to learn, or there's none in case of sleeping things. There are only 10 levels in the whole game, and I beat it in, like, 40 minutes.
Graphically, the game is a mixed bag. I think background and foreground graphics actually look pretty good, but the characters look pretty odd and inconsistent, as if they're lacking some detail and polish. The stills from the movie look decent. The music is good overall, the title screen theme sounds like it would fit in a game about space, not freaking Ice Age. The only issue I have regarding sound is that it's louder compared to other games with no way to adjust the sound volume in-game.
Overall, Ice Age is a rather strange licensed game that doesn't feel very much like the movie, with odd design choices, inconsistent presentation, and mediocre gameplay.
Well, Ice Age does have some snow and ice in it, but for the most part it doesn't. The game is definitely a unique take on the movie, alright. You control Manny with Roshan riding him through linear platforming stages, he can jump, attack, and stomp the ground by pressing the jump button again, which can be used to break the blocks underneath or stun some enemies that can be used to bounce on, and pressing L or R will make Roshan jump, which is only useful for collecting nuts that aren't obtainable by a normal jump. You can't perform a Roshan Jump when in air or anything, so there's no cool tricks involving that, so it ends up being a rather lame gimmick. Normal enemies like Dodos can be defeated with a normal attack or jumped on, but some other enemies can be defeated or pushed away by spitting a super mega nut, which creates an element of back and forth if there are many obstacles that require nutting away. There are occasional skunks that can make Manny levitate with its bad smell, because... why not. Aside from Manny, there are autoscroll sections where you play as Sid, who is super active, and can perform a Crash Bandicoot-esque spin attack to destroy rocks or enemies. Touching the left side of the screen means death, so you must be always on the move. There are plenty of common nuts that are a main collectible of the game, and they act as health, and since each level has 40 and more (40 required for 100%ing the level), the game ends up being really easy for the most part, falling to a pit doesn't mean death for instance, and you just lose a nut and restart at the section you're on.
The level design is fairly basic for the most part, avoid enemies or hazards, some really light, practically thin puzzle elements and, as I mentioned, some back and forth. There are a few instances of trial and error, the camera isn't always very helpful, like when sliding a slope, the camera pans up instead of down where you're going. You can pan the camera by holding up or down, but it's pretty slow, and in some instances it's disabled, which doesn't make a lot of sense. At the end of each level where you control Manny, there's a boss fight. As hinted earlier, this game has rather bizzare design choices, and the bosses are pretty strange, like a giant turtle or a sleeping armadillo, or a giant eagle. The bosses are pretty easy, not just because of influx of health, but the patterns aren't very difficult to learn, or there's none in case of sleeping things. There are only 10 levels in the whole game, and I beat it in, like, 40 minutes.
Graphically, the game is a mixed bag. I think background and foreground graphics actually look pretty good, but the characters look pretty odd and inconsistent, as if they're lacking some detail and polish. The stills from the movie look decent. The music is good overall, the title screen theme sounds like it would fit in a game about space, not freaking Ice Age. The only issue I have regarding sound is that it's louder compared to other games with no way to adjust the sound volume in-game.
Overall, Ice Age is a rather strange licensed game that doesn't feel very much like the movie, with odd design choices, inconsistent presentation, and mediocre gameplay.
ice age induced ego death
tem fases legais, mas são pouquissimas
e a OST é surpreendentemente boa
e a OST é surpreendentemente boa