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Ice Age 2: The Meltdown is a computer game based on the 2006 film Ice Age: The Meltdown. It was developed by Vivendi Games, and the Wii version was released shortly after the launch of the system.
In this game, Scrat is caught up in the events of the film, Ice Age: The Meltdown and is trying to pursue acorns while interacting with some characters, some of whom help him in his quest. The game starts off by showing the icy areas where it began in the film and moving on to the woods, as well as exploring regions in the games such as the bowels of the sea reptile, Maelstrom, and swampy lands. In the game, Scrat occasionally allies himself with some of the main characters, and the player sometimes can play as either Sid or Diego, though not Manny. Characters which were shown as bit parts in the film are shown usually as adversaries or (in the case of one, a songbird) a guide to the next nut, though a select number of foes were not shown in the film at all.
Facts on the film
* The breaking glacial dam is likely a reference to the Missoula Floods of the late Pleistocene.
* The ultimate ending of Cretaceous and Maelstrom, the two reptiles, remains dubious. The essential guide says that they were later eaten by mini-sloths, while the storybook maintains that they were picked off by vultures. The mini-sloths eating the bodies of these two creatures seems unlikely, as sloths of any species are traditionally vegetarian (though some species of ground sloths do sometimes eat meat) and the vultures picking the sea reptiles off seems more likely as the vultures were singing on how they'd wanted their meals.
* The film has become the first Blu-ray disc released film to be pirated, meaning the copy protection has been cracked .The full uncompressed Blu-ray disk image was made available online in areas such as Bittorrent soon after the film Serenity, which was also the first film to be pirated in the competing high definition disc format. Wikipedia |
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