Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (video game)
2009 video game
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Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (also known as Ice Age 3: Dawn of the Dinosaurs in PAL territories) is a 2009 platform game published by Activision. It is based on the CGI animated film of the same name. The game was released in 2009 for the Xbox 360 (X360), Wii, PlayStation 2 (PS2), PlayStation 3 (PS3), Microsoft Windows, Nintendo DS, and iOS. A demo was made available in the Xbox Live Marketplace on June 15, 2009 as well as a computer demo.[3]
Artificial Mind & Movement (Nintendo DS)
Two Tribes (iOS)
Chillingo (iOS)
Steve Duckworth
| Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs | |
|---|---|
North American Wii box art | |
| Developers | Eurocom Artificial Mind & Movement (Nintendo DS) Two Tribes (iOS) |
| Publishers | Activision Chillingo (iOS) |
| Composers | Jim Croft Steve Duckworth |
| Platforms | Microsoft Windows, Nintendo DS, PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, Wii, Xbox 360, iOS |
| Release | iOS November 14, 2009 |
| Genre | Platform game |
| Mode | Single-player |
Gameplay
Reception
| Publication | Score |
|---|---|
| 4Players | 67%[14] (Wii) 66%[14] (PS2) 60%[14] |
| Game Informer | (PS3, Wii, X360) 6.5/10[15] |
| GamesMaster | (X360) 70%[16] |
| GameSpot | (PS3, X360) 6.5/10[4] |
| GameZone | (PS3, Wii) 8/10[17][18] (X360) 7.9/10[19] (PS2) 7/10[20] |
| IGN | 6.5/10[5] |
| NGamer | (DS) 55%[21] |
| Nintendo World Report | (Wii) 9/10[22] |
| Official Xbox Magazine (US) | (X360) 6.5/10[23] |
| Pocket Gamer | (iOS) 3.5/5[24] |
| TouchArcade | (iOS) 4/5[25] |
The iOS and Wii versions received "generally favorable reviews", while the rest of the other versions received "mixed or average reviews" according to the review aggregation website Metacritic.[7][8][9][10][11][12][13]
GameSpot said of the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 versions, "Ice Age may be kid-friendly, funny, and faithful to the movie, but it's also repetitive and over too quickly."[4]
