Fun for young and old !

User Rating: 7.5 | Ice Age 2: The Meltdown XBOX
Ice Age 2 is your typical '' platform '' game centering around four loveable characters ,but mainly the character you'll be playing as is Scrat the lovable squirrel-rat thingy but you do for a brief segment play as Sid in a sloth slide challenge,who also later on in the game you have to save from a burning lava pit .The other two,Manfred and Diego are there through out the game as fillers voiceing there opinions but they do not have impact in the game what so ever . It is nice though that the original actors came in to do their voice-overs being that they had very liitle impact threw out the game .

The graphics are ,well what you would expect not great or bad though Scat was nicely detailed and the best looking of the bunch which i guess is understandable being that he is the main character .Speaking of the look of the game You'll be traveling back and fourth to bright and warm spring like areas ,only to finnish a level and pop into an icy cold ,snowy coverd mountain tops which like i said before look good and the draw distance is far if your standing on a ledge looking out but the detail is lacking which for this game is not a big deal also some of the interiors can be a bit dark with everything blending into one another and a couple of times i had to turn my brightness up to figure out were i was going .All and all not a bad looking game .

The game play was impressive as far as the controls go tight and responsive and every button but one will be used on the controller not to worry it'll only take a couple of minutes into the game to get used to it.The only small complaint i had was the camera ,as far as when an enemie you were trying to knock out was chasing you and you turn your R. thumbstick to move the camera it just moved to slow to get in position to throw .And if your on a ledge you cant turn the camera to face staight ahead or to look down unless you standing on the tip of the ledge ,but now im just nitpicking . Anyways overall it's a fun game a good game for kids ,but if your buying this for anyone 8 or under then you might have to help them out with a few levels they can be a bit tough but there are enough hint-signs to help you through and also usefull hints in the pause menu section along with an abundence of health in the game so you will never feel like your struggling to get to the next level with low or no health at all . So if you can find this game on sale or maybe used please pick it up it's a good weekend killer,'cause thats how long it will take to beat but you wont be dissapointed .