History VideoGame / OverTheHedge

* SharedLifeMeter:

** Hammy's ranged attack has him throwing a boomerang. If you throw one off into the distance and stand there, it'll fly back and smack him in the head.

* DevelopersForesight: Each of the four playable characters have their own dialogue for almost every single level, and they have different lines depending on which player slot they're in. There are hundreds of different lines for each character and level, and it's worth playing the same level with different teams just to hear them all. There's even a hint about it given upon completing the game.

** Dwayne, the Theme Park Owner, and a Rottweiler boss.
** The animals may count as well, using weapons such as golf clubs and baseball bats.

* BigBad: Dwayne.

* FamilyFriendlyFirearms: There are four kinds of guns. Respectively, they shoot ping-pong balls, ice, fire, and gas bubbles. In the final boss fight, Dwayne dual wields the former three.

* KingMook: Three of the bosses are a King Rat, a King Bunny, and a King Gopher. Vincent may also qualify as one for the bear cub enemies, as would the Depelter Turbo for the MechaMooks,

* PlayableEpilogue: After [[spoiler:defeating the exterminator]], you can hang around [[HubLevel the woods]] once again to get some bonus conversations: the porcupines and Vincent watch ''VideoGame/Madagascar'' while the Ozzie and Heather have a heart-to-heart regarding [[spoiler:Heather's rescue from Verm-Tech]]. Each of the four playable characters also gets epilogue-exclusive dialogue when switching to them.

* HeelFaceTurn: You have to battle Vincent again, but he's wearing a mind control helmet. Once you get it off of him, he joins you, comes back to the hedge and helps you fight the brainwashed animals attacking the Woods.

* OffscreenTeleportation: All the {{Escort Mission}}s that involve protecting Ozzie and the wagon from waves of enemies have a section where the gang is distracted by something, only for Ozzie to have somehow gotten incredibly far ahead with no logical reason. He even manages to get trapped in a yard filled with lasers despite the gate being locked. Naturally, this is PlayedForLaughs and heavily {{Lampshaded}}.

* TheSmurfettePrinciple: See ActionGirl above.

* KingMook: Three of the bosses are a King Rat, a King Bunny, and a King Gopher. Vincent may also qualify as one for the bear cub enemies, as would the Depelter Turbo for the [[MechaMooks Mecha Mooks]],

* HeelFaceTurn: You have to battle Vincent again, but he's wearing a mind control helmet. Once you get it off of him, he joins you and comes back to the hedge and helps you fight the brainwashed animals attacking the Woods.

* HubLevel: The Woods, which changes when a new item is obtained during a heist.

* NoodleIncident: After being defeated, the Rat King says "And that was the twelfth time I caught rabies."
** Also, in Stella's dialogue for the Connors' House heist for the cutscene introducing the sleeping gas sprayers, Stella mentions that she fell into some raw sewage that Hammy had brought back.
** And another in the heist of Gladys' new house, with Verne mentioning a time when Hammy blew up a box factory for St. Patrick's Day.

* KingMook: Three of the bosses are a King Rat, a King Bunny, and a King Gopher. Vincent may also qualify as one for the bear cub enemies, as would the Depelter Turbo for the [[MechaMooks]],

Afterwards, the game jumps forward in time to one year later, when raiding people's houses for food and other things has become routine for the animals. One day, however, they come home to find all their food has been stolen and their stuff broken. As it turns out, Dwayne the Verminator, known to the animals as "The Sniffer", has returned with an army of brainwashed animals, all of which are controlled using mind control caps that he has invented. From this point on, the game sees the animals resume stealing food from the humans as well as a variety of other devices, including a laptop, a film projector, a popcorn machine, and even a cotton candy machine among other things.

* KingMook: Three of the bosses are a King Rat, a King Bunny, and a King Gopher. Vincent may also qualify as one for the bear cub enemies.
* LaserHallway: Not used in hallways, but there are many lasers protecting backyards.

* NiceHat: The game features a series of hats, some of which are obtained from the {{King Mook}}s, that provide various types of protection against enemy attacks. However, each is only available once; after you collect the hat and complete the mission, it gets added to your collection in The Woods, and will no longer spawn in the level.

* ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill: Seriously, what kind of exterminator places so many crazy traps around a neighborhood just to catch a bunch of animals?

Unlike most video games based on movies, this one starts at the climax of the film, where everything is solved, and the animals are free to do whatever they please. A year later, however, they feel a bit bored with just stealing food, so they try and find other things they can use to pass the time, such as a TV or a popcorn machine. Unfortunately, Dwayne the Verminator is back, and is using mind control helmets to take control of other animals, such as rats, and use them as his henchmen. Shortly after finding out that Dwayne's minions have wrecked their home and stolen their food, the animals embark on heists to steal not only food, but also a variety of different items from humans.

* AdaptationalWimp: The Depelter Turbo. The movie version was hilariously powerful, while this one can be defeated by a few special attacks to its fuel source.

* BossInMooksClothing: The armadillos. You can only hurt them once they stop being curled up, but since that's their method of attacking you... Not to mention they're only encountered in one of the Vincent's Cave levels.

* FamilyFriendlyFirearms: There are four kinds of guns. Respectively, they shoot ping-pong balls, ice, fire, and gas bubbles. In the final boss fight, Dwayne notably dual wields ping pong guns.

* AllYourBaseAreBelongToUs: At the start of the game, the gang returns to find their home destroyed by an attack by Dwayne's animal minions. It happens again towards the end during a level in which the Woods are attacked by more mind-controlled animals.

* HubLevel: The Woods, which changes when a new item is obtained during a heist. IN one of the

Unlike most video games based on movies, this one starts at the climax of the film, where everything is solved, and the animals are free to do whatever they please. A year later, however, they feel a bit bored with just stealing food, so they try and find other things they can use to pass the time, such as a TV or a popcorn machine. Unfortunately, Dwayne the Verminator is back, and is using mind control helmets to take control of other animals, such as rats, and use them as his henchmen.

* HubLevel: The Woods, which changes when a new item is obtained during a heist.

** Hammy runs around in a circle at lighting speed.

* BearyFunny: Vincent, after his HeelFaceTurn. He's accepted easily by the porcupine kids; everyone else is rightfully still afraid of him. Luckily, he's pretty chill afterwards.

* DeusExitMachina: Vincent, [[StoryBreakerPower being a bear]], can easily flatten those badgers who give you trouble. So for most of the "Defend the Woods!" level, he's in a corner fighting off an endless wave of rats.

* MechaMooks: Robots appear quite frequently as enemies, often disguised as mundane objects like shrubs and barrels before they sprout deadly spinning blades and attack you.

* NiceHat: The game features a series of hats, some of which are obtained from the {{King Mook}}s, that provide various types of protection against enemy attacks.

* GratuitousFrench: Henri the Taxidermist from the handheld game likes using this, complete with insisting [[ItIsPronouncedTroPAY that his name is to be pronounced the French way]]. According to Dwayne it's because he went to art collage.

* KingMook: Three of the bosses are a King Rat, a King Bunny, and a King Gopher.

* YouDirtyRat: The rats. Granted, they are under mind control, except the ones in the first levels before the timeskip.

* DevelopersForesight: Each of the four playable characters have their own dialogue for almost every single level, and they have different lines depending on which player slot they're in. There are hundreds of different lines for each character and level, and it's worth playing the same level with different teams just to hear them all.

* ProductPlacement: Once the animals obtain the projector, clips of ''VideoGame/ShrekSuperSlam'', ''VideoGame/SharkTale'', and ''VideoGame/{{Madagascar}}'' can be seen in the forest over the course of the game,

* ProductPlacement: Once the animals are able to watch movies, you can see clips from the videogames of ''VideoGame/ShrekSuperSlam'', ''WesternAnimation/SharkTale'', and ''Film/{{Madagascar}}''.

* BossInMooksClothing: The armadillos. You can only hurt them once they stop being curled up, but since that's their method of attacking you...
** Not to mention they are only encountered in one of the Vincent's Cave levels.

* DamageSpongeBoss: Vincent takes a lot of damage before he goes down. Protip- use special attacks to remove more of his health.

The game was released for the UsefulNotes/NintendoGameCube, UsefulNotes/PlayStation2 and {{UsefulNotes/Xbox}}. Games for the UsefulNotes/GameBoyAdvance and UsefulNotes/NintendoDS were also made, though these were different from the console versions and revolved around the animals trying to get endangered species to move into the area to prevent it from being destroyed.

* CarFu: One of the minigames has RJ, Verne, Hammy, Stella, [[GoKartingWithBowser Gladys, and Dwayne]] battling in golf cart bumper cars.

* AntiFrustrationFeatures: For certain objectives such as avoiding security cameras and motion sensors, even if the [[ArtificalStupidity computer-controlled partner]] runs into them, as long as the player themselves didn't touch them, they'll be counted as complete.

* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: Tiger, despite having moved into the forest with Stella at the end of the movie, is nowhere to be found in the game.