Young children ought not to have too much trouble with the game, but even players from older audiences ought to be able to appreciate much of what the game does, even if it doesn't present an awful lot of difficulty. The jump puzzles featured in Ice Age 2 are fairly run of the mill for the genre, but more challenging and rewarding than your average kid-oriented game. Again, this is a platformer, so it's hardly shocking that the game is something of a collection-fest, but there are thousands of nuts scattered throughout the game. So it's appropriate that you spend the bulk of the game collecting more nuts than you could possibly imagine. The whole hook with Scrat's character is that he's constantly in search of nuts to hoard and bury. So, while there are a few details of the film's plot in the game that might be spoiled if you haven't seen the movie, it's nothing major, and most of the game's events are purely ancillary to the main film storyline. Scrat isn't the main character in the Ice Age 2 film, but rather, his adventures in this game seem like something of a silly side story to the main plot, which is told mainly through scattered narration sequences by Manfred (voiced by Ray Romano). thing that fans of the first film will remember as the star of the hilarious introductory sequence. Rather, the character you'll spend the bulk of your time with is Scrat, the nervous, twitchy muskrat-looking. However, none of the primary trio is the star of this game. 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. 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. It's 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.