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00:00Hi, this is Paul Acevedo of Windows Phone Central, here with a video review of Ice Age

00:24Adventures for Windows Phone 8.

00:27This is a free-to-play game which comes from Gameloft.

00:32At the start I have this ad which is improperly formatted.

00:39You can see there's a big black bar around it, not so crazy about that.

00:44Ice Age Adventures is the sequel to Ice Age Village, which was an Xbox Windows Phone game.

00:51This one does not have Xbox features, that's okay.

00:56And what Gameloft have done is they've taken a free-to-play city building game and they've

01:00actually expanded on it a lot and made it more of a real game.

01:04It is still designed to suck out your money and kind of get you addicted, but at least

01:11you actually have little moments of fun in between all that.

01:14So that is something.

01:17All these animals produce berries, which is your energy.

01:21I've got my berries almost full up here.

01:23So now I need to go out and spend some.

01:25Let's do that.

01:26You can go to the map and there are a lot of different locations to visit.

01:32At first you're just going to ice places.

01:36One special thing about the game, it has a ton of voice acting.

01:40And the voice acting comes from great sound-alikes, people who sound really just like the movie

01:45characters as I remember them.

01:49Each of these places you visit has these little roulette wheel locations and you tap them

01:54and you're going to get something out of it.

01:56Here I've just gotten shells, which is the soft currency.

02:00As you navigate an area, you'll come to obstacles like these rocks, originally there were a lot

02:04more of them, and you can clear them away by tapping them, but it costs energy.

02:08And some, like these brown rocks, actually cost quite a lot of energy.

02:13And sometimes you'll find shells in them and those shells will give you extra rewards.

02:18You might also find items which are necessary to unlock new parts of some of these islands.

02:25There's also enemies.

02:26Enemies are basically just another kind of obstacle you have to clear away.

02:30These islands have some places which cost premium currency, that's hard currency, to access.

02:37Like if I want to get over here and get this animal for my village, then I would have to

02:40spend a hundred acorns, which is like, I don't know, five, ten dollars worth.

02:45It's a lot.

02:47My reward for doing that is that I get an animal that produces more berries and then I get

02:50all of these, which are going to contain either shells or items.

02:55So it's basically crazy amounts of money just to get a new animal in your village.

03:02You might already have some of that animal, but you collect up to four of them just like

03:06in Ice Age Village.

03:08Whenever you find an animal, you have to build them a home.

03:11And this home is already completed, it usually takes several hours.

03:14And then you have to tap on it, there we go, now I can get berries out of that animal,

03:20and that animal has his home.

03:21Now I can find up to three more of them too.

03:23I mentioned that there are some actual game parts, and I didn't just mean the exploration

03:27that I showed you, there's also a couple of mini games.

03:30These cost one token to play, which you will find just by digging up snow piles or through

03:35the game's social features.

03:37This one is an endless runner, you're trying to get as far as you possibly can as Scrat the

03:43little squirrel.

03:46It looks pretty good, the frame rate is not great, this is using the same 3D engine that

03:49all Gameloft games use, which means it is running at less than 30 frames per second, not as well

03:56as your device could actually do.

03:59But Gameloft made this engine and they're going to stick with it.

04:03Now I've just found an animal that I get to ride on, I can't remember what this exact

04:08one does.

04:09Oh, well, he was like a shield.

04:12Oops.

04:14And then I died.

04:15Yeah, I was too busy talking to play, right?

04:19And afterwards you might get to spin a roulette wheel if you got far enough, and you'll basically

04:23get a few berries or shells, very very rare chance of getting an item, but almost never.

04:28Now this other mini game, I actually enjoy a lot more because I am so tired of it.

04:33This is just a match 3 puzzle game, but it's actually a really good one.

04:41There's a lot of different variations and levels of the puzzle game that you'll get when you

04:45start playing.

04:46You never know what it's going to be, but they all have the goal of getting a certain number

04:49of hearts.

04:50And to get those hearts, you just have to get them all the way to the bottom.

04:53So I want to drop them down, and I also have to make matches adjacent to these ice blocks

05:00to destroy them.

05:02And if you make five in a row, which actually happens fairly frequently, like right now,

05:06then you get a meteor, and the meteor can destroy all of one particular kind of item.

05:14But what's really neat is there's some advanced mechanics that I haven't really seen in a lot

05:18of Match 3 games like this.

05:20If I touch two meteors together, it would clear all of the objects on the screen, causing

05:25those hearts to drop.

05:27But if I touch three meteors together, which some levels are actually set up to encourage

05:31happening, then that would make the whole screen fill up with hearts, because some levels require

05:36you to get like 50 hearts, and the only possible way to do it within your move limit is to touch

05:41three meteors together.

05:43But it's not impossible.

05:46Ice Age Adventures is in many ways a much better game than Ice Age Village just because there's

05:50more to it, and there are actual moments of fun to be had.

05:54On the downside, it is still a game that is just about getting you addicted and sucking

05:58your money out.

06:00But if you like free-to-play games or you like Ice Age, it's definitely fun to play at least

06:04for a while.

06:05Thanks for watching.

06:06Read the full review at WPCentral.com.

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06:14Thanks, guys.

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