Digital Chumps writes: "speaking, Polar Panic is good at being a typical puzzle game. The amount of strategy you have to calculate in the limited amount of movements to make to escape a stage is nothing short of brilliant and frustrating. My wife and I worked our way through 40+ stages in the puzzle mode of the game (yes there are multiple modes; we'll talk about this later). Each stage increased in difficulty. The first seven or eight were primer stages that were meant for you to get use to the processes the game was throwing at you. You would start out with simply shifting ice blocks and avoiding hazards with baseball bats to sliding a box of explosives to get rid of cracked walls that stood in your way. What's always been bothersome about puzzle games is the lack of variety when it comes to figuring out stages. With Polar Panic, the different add-ons to make it through a stage (such as explosives, activator buttons or different types of ice) creates a nice bit of depth in the game that you don't find in a lot of games in this genre."
A.J. says: "As Sony's first system capable of downloading games, the PlayStation 3 sure had a phenomenal library. Here, I count down ten buried treasures that you may not have heard of but are worth playing before you put your PS3 on Craigslist."
The jerky jerk-face Mr. Big and Globoco Inc. are destroying the arctic forests and are practicing off-shore oil-drilling without concern for the cute and cuddly wildlife or their environment. You may find yourself feeling as though you have transformed into Mr. Al Gore to save some polar bears. Your not just any polar bear, you play as a polar bear named Polar Bear. Okay, so our players parents weren’t too imaginative with the name, but does this ice cube-sliding action-puzzler have enough creativity to grab you and your cold hard cash?
Console Monster writes :"The premise behind Polar Panic is straight forward enough. Taking the role of Polar (the polar bear!) you must navigate your way around a maze saving your family and destroying the enemy in the process. To make things interesting the maze is filled with different types of blocks, from simple blocks of snow that require smashing, to explosive crates that require careful handling to ensure correct use. Being very snowy the floor is quite slippery, so pushing a block will generally set it off sliding in the direction pushed, making things a great deal more challenging requiring careful planning in order to ensure no mistakes are made."
