Ice Age 2: The Meltdown (PlayStation 2, Xbox, GameCube, Windows, Wii)

This page details one or more prototype versions of Ice Age 2: The Meltdown (PlayStation 2, Xbox, GameCube, Windows, Wii).

Level DifferencesOddities throughout the game. FMV CutscenesFast Tony originally narrated these instead of Manny. Early Sounds, Voicelines and TextEither text-to-speech or nonexistent.

General Differences#

• The build has debug text throughout. It is credited to the person "Charlotte Chen" from "Tips & Tricks". The text also shows that the build data is from December 16, 2005, shows how many minutes you have played the game, and shows your coordinates.

Copyright Screen#

The copyright screen has a mention for Fox Interactive that got removed.

Prototype	Final

Opening Logos#

• The Blue Sky Studios logo is shown in 4:3 instead of stretched 16:9. The background is also lighter, and the logo does not zoom in or fade to black at the end.

• After the Blue Sky logo, the Fox Interactive logo is present which got removed from the final.

Title Screen#

• The game's logo does not move to the top-left after enough time.
• The title screen animation is much shorter. When Scrat is happily holding his nut, a snowball is suddenly thrown at him as the nut flies upwards. The animation then loops.
• The attract demo just uses the intro cutscene, seemingly as a placeholder.

Menus#

• The bonus features are different. Every bonus feature has a different name except for "Harper Collins". For example, this build has "Bonus: Scrat" instead of "Chris Wedge". These were most likely placeholders.

• The text does not shrink for larger text.

Credits#

• The glacier with the text does not disappear.
• The text comes in from the right and left and combine to show the text.
• Text is shown in its usual color instead of in blue.
• Text is arranged differently.
• There are two errors at some parts of the credits, where the text goes offscreen. Even when played in the in-game 16:9 widescreen mode, the text still cuts off.

Error #1	Error #2

• All of the voice actors show "TBD" except for the second one which shows "JTBD".

Loading Screen#

• The snowflakes are a bit buggy, as they may not show for a few seconds.
• The nut is located closer to the "Loading..." text. It is also a golden nut instead of a regular nut.

Gameplay Differences#

• When collecting a specific number of walnuts to progress through a level, the "door unlocked" sound effect plays when Scrat dances instead of when the camera shows the scurry hole.
• When climbing up a slippery wall, the icon for the triangle button is different.
• The same icon is used when digging for objects or pulling out nuts, but there is a meter below showing the progress of the dig/pull.
• The scent vision does not play its own music. The lines showing the scent are also white and thick instead of yellow and thin.
• The walnuts have a different texture. The icon was unchanged, however.
• There is a small debug feature enabled. Pressing Select will put you in free-fly mode, which will make the debug text show "NOT UNDERWATER" or "UNDERWATER" depending on if you are flying underwater or not. Pressing △ will make you move vertically up, while pressing ✕ will make you move vertically down. The left stick or D-pad let you move in this state.

Unused Video#

• The Vivendi Universal Games logo is present in the files. This is only used on the final Japanese version, where it replaces the Sierra Entertainment logo.