Over the Hedge (2006 Video Game) User Reviews (5)

For the time

[KingMushCharva · 8/10 · 29 August 2019]

For it's time it was a good game, things have come a long way since but nevertheless it was still decent

Over The Hedge 2

[TheMysteriousReviewer · 7/10 · 10 July 2023]

Playing this game feels like I'm experiencing a sequel to the movie it was based on. It's pretty rare to see a licensed game for a movie to go into that direction. Regardless, it was quite a good game. The Over The Hedge video game is a pretty nice game that goes well into the game's direction we wouldn't often see in licensed movie games. It would provide some decent writing for the game that takes place a year after the events of the movie. Along with some enjoyable gameplay that provides some bonus objectives to allow the players to take time to go back with some that can be pretty challenging and some of the graphics that fits to the game such as the traps. Of course, does have some flaws such as how the lighting of the graphics is too dark to follow the game, cutscenes that often are suspiciously similar to the Sly Cooper games (although it's understandable since the movie it was based on is technically a heist movie), and the only mini game mode that sucked was RC Racing. I did have fun with BumperCarts and Range Diver, but RC Racing would have the gameplay that's too struggling. I mean, it would never let the players turn or speed up properly when they use the action buttons. I will just ask this question for my recommendation. Do you want to experience an Over The Hedge sequel? This would be for you. Not even this kind of direction would allow me to consider this the best licensed game ever made. But for what it is, it did do a pretty good job for adapting the movie into a game with a little followup.

A Game That Rocks In The Suburbs

[kervindonngo · 8/10 · 6 November 2022]

I honestly didn't know that this movie has its own video game ever since when I was a kid.

Over The Hedge: The Video Game is a really fun game to play. This game takes place after the movie. Although in the movie the wheelbarrow was supposed to be red in the movie it was blue in the game. In the hedge run scene which is the final scene in the movie. After escaping Dwayne's Taser, Vincent claws but not Gladys's weed hacker. We get to see Hammy's Quicksilver speed. But in the game, we just see Hammy use his speed for just 1 second and all I see is just RJ wearing his turtle and run away from Vincent. Gladys and Dwanye were the only ones who are trapped but not Dwanye who does not really follow the movie.

1 year later in the game. Over The Hedge now loosely got its own sequel. I get to control 4 characters in the game. RJ, Vene, Hammy, Stella. The combat in the game is pretty simple and basic but kind of fun! If you discovered an effective move that is holding and timing it becomes effective. But this game did not tell us more about the move list.

One of the best special attacks that I found in this game is the tornado attack which is absolutely strong and effective. The gameplay has a lot of action in the game however the stealth in the game almost didn't feel any sense.

Side objectives in the game were a pain but that is what makes the game challenging. The more side objectives the stronger and more effective the characters are. The levels are kind of ok but the traps in the game are making it hard not to disable or destroy. Mostly it works on a Hammy mini-game or some special keys to make it work and some levels are pretty acrophobic. Well, I say that because kids before like a long time ago are acrophobic meaning they are afraid of heights. But now today as an adult I managed to control my acrophobia and quickly completed it.

The Boss levels were kind of good. The final boss is just ok. Not really exciting but just ok. Because I expect the final boss in the game to be a bit challenging.

The music was pretty ok. But the dramatic music loop in the game felt a little off and loud even not engaging in combat.

And speaking of mini-games. RC rally was pretty buggy and hard to control the RC cars, Range Driver was pretty fun like shooting target range when you progress through the missions In the game and the Bumper Carts are absolutely good but a little buggy to as well because sometimes it does not make me crash other golf carts.

And finally, to go back to the story. The story sequel to the game takes place in the year 2007. Their forest got trashed all because of VermTech which was actually animals that are mind-controlled. Most of every level in the game is nothing but heists just to rebuild the forest like grabbing the movie projectors, the tv, the cotton candy machine, and even the secondary objects like the laptops and radios. But the most important is the food. Sadly, even when you got every item you can't interact with them like watching tv or eating some food. It had some new nonmovie characters like Rufus the blue jay. His role is good but not really enough because I don't understand how he carries heavy items. I also like the idea of having Vincent join the foragers but his role felt a little weak because Vincent did not infiltrate Verm Tech. The rest of the characters sometime appear and do not appear anywhere. The story is not very perfect but it's still pretty good.

The game is not too amazing but it is pretty good. If I only wish that if Over the Hedge game has remade today. I would really like to play Heather to see her perspective.

Clever!

[kellyspenguin · 19 November 2006]

Wow, what a wonderful surprise. I have to admit that when I first saw the trailer for this film, it really didn't grab me. Dreamworks obviously has a great animation team, but that doesn't always mean the storyline is going to be interesting enough to amuse me. Well, I certainly stand corrected on this one. The script was quite clever and the characters were unique. My favorite was definitely Hammy. Which was interesting, because to my recollection, the initial trailers seemed to focus on him and that was what kind of turned me off; go figure. The plot was simple enough, but quite cleverly executed, with a lot of great little details. For the first time I found myself more interested in the storyline than studying the animation and marveling at the lighting, etc. I will definitely be picking up a copy so I can watch over and over.

nwn

[mittenandcasper · 8/10 · 2 October 2019]

This movie taught me about how human urbanization have an impact on the animal kingdom. Us humans destroy their homes whereas they come in ours to hang onto survival and we are pushing them out again. This shows that us human are heartless and only care for ourselves