When did Ice Age come out?

Ice Age was released on 18 March 2002 for Game Boy Advance.

Ice Age (2002) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Ice Age

Ice Age makes the jump to the small screen in this Game Boy Advance platformer. Based on events depicted in the motion picture, Ice Age tasks players with guiding both Manny the Mammoth and Sid the Sloth…

33 18 March 2002

What Ice Age is

Ice Age is a platform game developed by A2M and released in 2002. It was published by Ubi Soft Entertainment. It is available on Game Boy Advance only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Ice Age makes the jump to the small screen in this Game Boy Advance platformer. Based on events depicted in the motion picture, Ice Age tasks players with guiding both Manny the Mammoth and Sid the Sloth through ten levels of platform-oriented action. Starting out, players control Manny who, along with the human baby Roshan, must navigate a myriad of environments while keeping saber-tooth tigers, hedgehogs, and bees at bay. To do so, Manny is capable of hurling large nuts as makeshift projectiles at any on-screen enemies. Wild animals aren't the only obstacle players will encounter, as they'll need to move a sleeping rhinoceros to advance and inhale skunk fumes to float over dangerous…

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How it plays

It is played from a side view perspective. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

Where it sits in the Ice Age series

Ice Age is the first of 15 entries we hold in the Ice Age series. The next entry was Ice Age 2: Arctic Slide in 2006. Its critic score of 33 is 23 points below the series average of 56. The highest-rated entry is Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs at 100.

See all 15 Ice Age games in release order →

How it was received

Ice Age holds a critic score of 33 out of 100. That places it above 2% of the 2,372 rated platform games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2002 averaged 68, so it scored 35 points below the year average.

What it launched against

Ice Age launched on 18 March 2002, within three weeks of Resident Evil (2002), Resident Evil, Star Wars: Jedi Knight II - Jedi Outcast and Heroes of Might and Magic IV. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Resident Evil (2002), Resident Evil, Star Wars: Jedi Knight II - Jedi Outcast, Heroes of Might and Magic IV.

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