this game isn't really standout in any sense, it's just a 2 player brawler based on a movie, kind of along the lines of shrek 2 for the gamecube as well, but it's at least not TERRIBLE, there's just nothing worth playing it for. not fun at all single player and just barely fun with a friend to play with
Not gonna lie. This game is a HUGE guilty pleasure for me. But yeah, it's not the best, but it's fairly good.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2tBL9DC3PY&t=892s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2tBL9DC3PY&t=892s
Button masher: the DreamWorks movie tie-in edition.
No really, that's exactly all I felt whilst playing this one. You're just doing an endless array of button mashing for the most part even if there are a few short sections to break it up a bit.
As far as the DreamWorks games I've played goes, this is certainly nowhere near as good as say Madagascar.
Kinda cool that the game does it's own thing story wise rather than just adapt the film's plot though even if it is forgettable...
kinda like the movie itself which I hardly even remember at all. Not even the fact it had Bruce Willis in it.
Yeeeeaaahh...
No really, that's exactly all I felt whilst playing this one. You're just doing an endless array of button mashing for the most part even if there are a few short sections to break it up a bit.
As far as the DreamWorks games I've played goes, this is certainly nowhere near as good as say Madagascar.
Kinda cool that the game does it's own thing story wise rather than just adapt the film's plot though even if it is forgettable...
kinda like the movie itself which I hardly even remember at all. Not even the fact it had Bruce Willis in it.
Yeeeeaaahh...
Yeek. It's unfortunate to have revisited this and come out with nothing of note after an hour of playtime. It's possible my distaste is linked to the initial property not being particularly good to begin with, but the gameplay loop here is abysmal and the visuals are equally poor. And while playing this, I'm pretty convinced I barely played it as a kid either? I only remember the first three or four levels and pretty much nothing else. I guess even kiddo me thought this was trash, I dunno.
Over the Hedge is also probably slightly more enjoyable with a friend. It's pretty much just a mindless spamfest gameplay wise and there are no levels to explore. They're broken up into these little sections where you just fight enemies and there's rarely anything to see or look around in. And the subject matter of the film forces the environments into a very narrow structure. It's just suburban streets, house backyards and middle-class homes throughout lol.
Genuinely had trouble latching onto a single thing I enjoyed here. Every character's moveset is also identical outside of some visual differences. Game sucks.
Over the Hedge is also probably slightly more enjoyable with a friend. It's pretty much just a mindless spamfest gameplay wise and there are no levels to explore. They're broken up into these little sections where you just fight enemies and there's rarely anything to see or look around in. And the subject matter of the film forces the environments into a very narrow structure. It's just suburban streets, house backyards and middle-class homes throughout lol.
Genuinely had trouble latching onto a single thing I enjoyed here. Every character's moveset is also identical outside of some visual differences. Game sucks.
Over the Hedge is a 2006 American computer-animated comedy film based on the United Media comic strip of the same name by Michael Fry and T. Lewis. Produced by DreamWorks Animation and distributed by Paramount Pictures, which acquired the DreamWorks Pictures studio the same year,[4] the film was directed by Tim Johnson and Karey Kirkpatrick (in Kirkpatrick's feature directorial debut) from a screenplay by Len Blum, Lorne Cameron, David Hoselton, and Kirkpatrick. Featuring the voices of Bruce Willis, Garry Shandling, Steve Carell, William Shatner, Wanda Sykes, and Nick Nolte, the film was released on May 19, 2006 in the United States. It received generally positive reviews from critics, and grossed $336 million on an $80 million budget.
Probably the most fun I had with Over The Hedge was in the minigame mode where you could smash golf carts into each other and see who's got totally destroyed first. This was an okay-ish hacknslash style game but even as a kid I could feel the campaign overstaying its welcome. Adults will absolutely grow bored long before they finish it. There are some weapons to try out and the locations like a roller coaster can prove visually interesting, but it's a pretty shallow experience.
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The Story takes place during the last act of the film and after it, that's not a bad idea since it can give creators more opportunities to show what they can bring to the story. Voice acting is how you would expect from a PS2 game based on a kid's movie, sound like their counterparts, but aren't impressive. The Graphics are good, it looks and feels like the movie, even if the models don't always animate how they should. Controls feel great and makes moving around feel like how you want it too, smooth and responsive. The Gameplay has you go around avoiding the traps from the suburbs to steal food from people's houses and beating up mammals by either using household items and weapons or using your limbs, this is a fun idea for a over the hedge game, it is fun to play, you might start getting bored after a lot of it, but that comes down to people's preferences, so you could complete it without being bored after a while, minigames are alright, nothing special don't affect the story in any way, just for fun, which is fine. The music is alright, some tracks feel good for the situation, others sound out of place to me. Sounds are good, the satisfactory noises make you want to do things more. Over the hedge is a good kid's game that knows what it is and how to make it be what's expected from its film counterparts' fans.
The Story takes place during the last act of the film and after it, that's not a bad idea since it can give creators more opportunities to show what they can bring to the story. Voice acting is how you would expect from a PS2 game based on a kid's movie, sound like their counterparts, but aren't impressive. The Graphics are good, it looks and feels like the movie, even if the models don't always animate how they should. Controls feel great and makes moving around feel like how you want it too, smooth and responsive. The Gameplay has you go around avoiding the traps from the suburbs to steal food from people's houses and beating up mammals by either using household items and weapons or using your limbs, this is a fun idea for a over the hedge game, it is fun to play, you might start getting bored after a lot of it, but that comes down to people's preferences, so you could complete it without being bored after a while, minigames are alright, nothing special don't affect the story in any way, just for fun, which is fine. The music is alright, some tracks feel good for the situation, others sound out of place to me. Sounds are good, the satisfactory noises make you want to do things more. Over the hedge is a good kid's game that knows what it is and how to make it be what's expected from its film counterparts' fans.