You have a health meter in the upper-left corner that'll deplete when you get hit or whatever, but there are plenty of strawberries to pick up to refill that meter as well as the ability to purchase upgrades. This variety is appreciated and a nice change of pace, but in the end it won't do much for the older players among us because the game's pretty frickin' easy. Later levels have you playing in a shooting gallery where you blast passing dinos with your plant shooter, flying pterodactyls in massive dogfights as Buck, and plowing through side-scrolling levels as Scrat. However, the deeper you get, the more there is to do. In the beginning, it's pretty much a straight platformer with you taking Sid the Sloth through the paces - baby-proofing the wooly mammoth nursery, battling hedgehog-looking dudes, and collecting fruit to be used as currency. Classifying the gameplay can be a bit difficult.
Time to make the dinosaurs extinct… again. Is it a Game of the Year contender? No, but Ice Age shouldn't be written off as movie cash-in, either. Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs lets you play as your favorite fuzzy critters from the movie and provides you with a tale that complements the movie - generally, you're playing the parts of the film that weren't shown in theaters.
Yeah, believe it or not there's a third Ice Age movie in theaters, and that means that there's yet another film-inspired videogame for you to sit down with.
