

Rather, the character you'll spend the bulk of your time with is Scrat, the nervous, twitchy muskrat-looking.thing that fans of the first film will remember as the star of the hilarious introductory sequence. However, none of the primary trio is the star of this game. In fact, actors Ray Romano, John Leguizamo, and Dennis Leary are all on hand as well, and they turn in capable performances for each character (although Romano does sound a bit bored, even more than usual). The three principal characters of both Ice Age flicks, Manfred the mammoth, Sid the sloth, and Diego the sabertooth tiger, are all on hand in the Ice Age 2 game. Help Scrat hoard thousands and thousands of nuts by jumping around a variety of environments in Ice Age 2. Still, there's fun to be had with Ice Age 2, especially if you've got someone in the younger set in your family with an affinity for the characters. Its one Achilles' heel? You can beat the whole thing in about four-hours time, if you know what you're doing. Ice Age 2 is fun practically from beginning to end, including solid gameplay, great production values, and even the celebrity voice cast from the film. But unlike most film-to-game tie-ins, Ice Age 2 is more than just a hacked-together platformer, built exclusively to make more money for the license.

Ice Age 2: The Meltdown hits theaters this weekend, and as tends to be the case with many animated films, there's a videogame tie-in to go along with it. So, it's with no measure of shock that a sequel would be in the cards. Telling the story of a trio of celebrity voice-acted, prehistoric creatures on a mission to deliver a lost human baby to his human tribe, the film received both critical and fan acclaim. Ice Age was one of the more-successful attempts to emulate the success of Pixar's seemingly never-ending string of computer-animated family films by another studio (in this case, 20th Century Fox).
