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Ice Age
(2002, Video Games - Action/Adventure, Rated E, Play it on: Game Boy Advance)
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Not age appropriate for kids under 6, age appropriate for kids over 8; suggested age 6. -
Is it any good?
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Common Sense says
Kids will tire quickly of ho-hum game.
Why We Rated This 
for Ages 6–8
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What Parents Need to Know
This review of Ice Age was written by Kevin Savetz
Parents need to know that players have to kill a lot of animals, including some that aren't aggressive. The violence is cartoonish.
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What’s the Story?
ICE AGE is a platform game, based on the movie of the same name, in which the player walks, runs, and jumps across 10 horizontally scrolling levels. Depending on the level, you control Manny, a lumbering woolly mammoth ridden by an infant, or Sid, a speedy sloth.
When enemies get in the way, such as saber-tooth tigers and dodo birds, the player must kill them. The mammoth can strike with its tusks or throw nuts, the sloth has a "spin attack." It's cartoonish violence in which defeated enemies simply disappear. The goal is to collect as many nuts as possible on the way to finishing ten levels.
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The game is easy to learn and controls are simple, but gameplay quickly becomes repetitive. There's no room for creativity or striking out in a new direction: You simply follow the path laid out for you. You can take your time and proceed at your own pace in the mammoth levels, but the sloth levels scroll along quickly. If the player can't keep up and is nudged off the edge of the scrolling screen, he loses a life, which will prove frustrating for younger children.
ClosePublisher’s Details
Released on 11/11/2002, price $20, not online enabled
ESRB rating: E
ESRB rating: E
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Most Recent Reviews
- I rate this title on for age 2 and give itMy concerns are:
- Excessive violence
- Inappropriate language
- Excessive consumerism
- Negative role models
- Safety is an issue
- My highlights are:
- Educational
- Good role models
- Safety isn't an issue
- Easy to play
- I rate this title on for age 6 and give it
- My highlights are:
I got tired of it quickley, but children might still enjoy it.
To tell the truth, it was really boring. But while I still liked it, it was enjoyable. Even though the game didn't put that much efort in it, I still gave it an ON rating and put it as 3 stars. It can give kids a really good message. While playing the game, kids do problum solving. They have to figure out how to get to the cave by using there brain. You really got to think on this game in order to win it. There are three characters. Each of them can do things that the others can't. They have to help each other to make it to the cave. You can play each of the three characters at each time.
- I rate this title on for age 2 and give it
the game is very nice just not good for my age group besides that its very injoyable
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