History VideoGame / IceAge

* DifficultySpike: Minigames are often far more difficult than the general exploratory gameplay preceding them.

* PunchClockVillain: The pirates come off as this.

* AbsenteeActor: Crash, Eddie, Boris and Silas are missing from the fourth film's game.

Like other big-budget films, Ice Age franchise has spawned videogame spinoffs.

The original 2002 ''WesternAnimation/IceAge'' only had a cheaply made Game Boy Advance game which was negatively received by players and critics alike. It was created by {{Creator/Ubisoft}}. Following the success of the first film, WesternAnimation/{{Ice Age The Meltdown}} received an Action Platformer game released on all major platforms at the time in 2006 (except the PSP). The console versions of the game were platformers where the player controls Scrat, with the ocasional mini-game featuring the main characters, whereas the DS and GBA games are puzzle games where the player uses the three main characters to overcome obstacles.

They focused on the franchise mascot Scrat, the prehistoric rat-squirrel hybrid on his quest to find more and more nuts at the same time, unfurling alongside the main plot of the films. There are also various mini-games, sometimes by Scrat, sometimes from the perspective of Manny, Sid or Diego. These games have received generally mediocre reviews, although Wii and IOS versions of ''Dawn of The Dinosaurs'' [[SugarWiki/NoProblemWithLicensedGames currently hold scores]] [[http://www.metacritic.com/game/wii/ice-age-dawn-of-the-dinosaurs 75]] and [[http://www.metacritic.com/game/ios/ice-age-dawn-of-the-dinosaurs 78]] on Metacritic.

The 2012 mobile games ''Ice Age Village'' and ''Ice Age Adventures'' were generally well received by the public. However, this wasn't to last with ''Ice Age: Continental Drift - Arctic Games'' , a mini-game party game with Kinect functionalities that gathered mostly negative reviews on par with its UsefulNotes/GameBoyAdvance precursor.

''WesternAnimation/IceAgeCollisionCourse'' didn't receive a game of its own, given that movie tie-in games fell out of flavor by the mid-2010s (''VideoGame/RatchetAndClank2016'' being a major exception but that's because it's a remake of the original) However, in late 2019 a game called ''Ice Age Scrat's Nutty Adventure'' was released for the UsefulNotes/PlayStation4, Xbox One, and PC. It's a platformer reminscent of the second game where players take control of Scrat through scenarios from all five movies.

!! Tropes featured in Ice Age 2: The Meltdown:

!! Tropes featured in Ice Age 3: Dawn of the Dinosaurs:

!! Tropes featured in Ice Age: Continental Drift - Arctic Games:

* PunchClockVillain: The pirates come off as this.

* InstantIceJustAddCold: In one level, Scrat has to traverse an once-frozen river by jumping onto ice floes. If he falls into the water, he'll end up as an ice cube.

** The Moeritheriums voiced by Creator/TaraStrong were only extras in the movies, in the game they pop up more numerously and even help scrat by giving him advice or objectives.

* TreeTrunkTour: Most prominently in "FlowerPower".

* StockDinosaurs: Zig-zagged, as with [[WesternAnimation/IceAgeDawnOfTheDinosaurs the film]]. Recognizable creatures include the Tyrannosaurus, Brachiosaurus, Ankylosaurus, Iguanodon, Pachycephalosaurus, Triceratops, and Archaeopteryx. Lesser-known genera include Kentrosaurus, Troodon, Pterodactylus, Harpactognathus, Guanlong, and Baryonyx.

* UndergroundLevel: "Lonesome Sloth" and "Nuts About Scratte". The dinosaur world is technically underground too...

* ArtisticLicensePaleontology: Dilophosaurus appears with a frill and the ability to spit venom, just as it did in ''Film/JurassicPark''

* DoofyDodo: Are still the same as how are they seen in the WesternAnimation/IceAge first film, but act as threats/enemies.

* DoofyDodo: Are still the same as how are they seen in the Film/IceAge first film, but act as threats/enemies.

* UndergroundLevel: ''Lonesome Sloth'' and ''Nuts About Scratte''. The dinosaur world is technically underground too...