I'd actually not planned on playing this game - I am currently watching every Pixar movie and playing it's equivalent game adaptation, but I've already watched (almost) every DreamWorks movie and the ones I have left don't really have video game adaptations.
While looking at the game selection in a local media store I saw they had this and as much as I wanted it, I didn't own the movie; I was eventually persuaded into buying both the movie and the game.
Set a year after the movie (with the games first few levels showing an alternative ending for the movie), Over The Hedge: The Videogame follows the cast from the movie (plus some new characters) pulling "heists" as per, for things like projectors, laptops and PDAs, as well as the usual foodstuff like popcorn machines and bags of chips.
Dwayne, the villain who owns VermTech (apparently?), has developed a "mind control" cap that causes other vermin to attack ours, and at the end of the game he kidnaps one of the characters, which prompts the gang to defeat him and destroy the mind control stuff.
The gameplay is a mix of Devil May Cry (from what I understand about it) and LEGO® games; run into a room, spam a button and hope you don't die.
It's pretty fun.
There's a bunch of collectables like hats and DVDs, and you unlock minigames for completing certain objectives (like not setting off traps or finding hidden things).
These objectives don't seem super difficult and you're able to go back and replay any level at any time, so I might actually attempt to complete this game one day.
The hats just give you extra health, while the DVDs unlock extras like concept art, minimovies and comics.
The minigames you unlock with objectives are an R.C. car racing game, a sort of "golf" game where you have to shoot a certain type of item in a time limit, and a kinda boring bumper cars game.
As far as I know, all completing these objectives actually do is give you more tracks or arenas or something in these minigames so I'm honestly less inclined to complete the game now. Maybe there's more to them, though.
The unlockable "extras" are concept art from both the movie and the game (as well as a few pictures of the movie itself for some reason), cutscenes from the game as well as model spins of characters and storyboards of cutscenes (which actually surprised me! I was expecting this to just be cutscenes and clips from the movie itself), a selection of music from the game and comics that I assume are actual Over The Hedge comics (this game is based on the movie which in turn is based on a comic strip).
Overall, this game is pretty fun, and I'd definitely try to get all the collectables and objectives done, but what they unlock isn't really worth it unless you have people who are willing to play the games you unlock.
Still, it seems like it'd be worth playing just for fun.
While looking at the game selection in a local media store I saw they had this and as much as I wanted it, I didn't own the movie; I was eventually persuaded into buying both the movie and the game.
Set a year after the movie (with the games first few levels showing an alternative ending for the movie), Over The Hedge: The Videogame follows the cast from the movie (plus some new characters) pulling "heists" as per, for things like projectors, laptops and PDAs, as well as the usual foodstuff like popcorn machines and bags of chips.
Dwayne, the villain who owns VermTech (apparently?), has developed a "mind control" cap that causes other vermin to attack ours, and at the end of the game he kidnaps one of the characters, which prompts the gang to defeat him and destroy the mind control stuff.
The gameplay is a mix of Devil May Cry (from what I understand about it) and LEGO® games; run into a room, spam a button and hope you don't die.
It's pretty fun.
There's a bunch of collectables like hats and DVDs, and you unlock minigames for completing certain objectives (like not setting off traps or finding hidden things).
These objectives don't seem super difficult and you're able to go back and replay any level at any time, so I might actually attempt to complete this game one day.
The hats just give you extra health, while the DVDs unlock extras like concept art, minimovies and comics.
The minigames you unlock with objectives are an R.C. car racing game, a sort of "golf" game where you have to shoot a certain type of item in a time limit, and a kinda boring bumper cars game.
As far as I know, all completing these objectives actually do is give you more tracks or arenas or something in these minigames so I'm honestly less inclined to complete the game now. Maybe there's more to them, though.
The unlockable "extras" are concept art from both the movie and the game (as well as a few pictures of the movie itself for some reason), cutscenes from the game as well as model spins of characters and storyboards of cutscenes (which actually surprised me! I was expecting this to just be cutscenes and clips from the movie itself), a selection of music from the game and comics that I assume are actual Over The Hedge comics (this game is based on the movie which in turn is based on a comic strip).
Overall, this game is pretty fun, and I'd definitely try to get all the collectables and objectives done, but what they unlock isn't really worth it unless you have people who are willing to play the games you unlock.
Still, it seems like it'd be worth playing just for fun.
ThatOneGuy
9 months ago