History VideoGame / Shrek

* ThisIsGonnaSuck: One of the knights in Shrek 2 say "Here we go!" when he dies.

* GetBackHereBoss: There are two of these. At the end of the second level you play Dragon and you have to save Fiona from being taken away by witches.

* PlayingTennisWithTheBoss: There are three separate trolls in the game. They all have the same weakness: the bombs they shoot at of their mouth to kill you. There's no other way to defeat them than to hit the bombs back.

* BeatThemAtTheirOwnGame: There are three separate trolls in the game. They all have the same weakness: the bombs they shoot at of their mouth to kill you. There's no other way to defeat them than to hit the bombs back.

* FakeLongevety: Each level has a limited amount of gold coins, eyeballs, and fish you can collect. Your scrapbook has these categories and shows what you've cleared. Subverted as it turns out in later levels, you can use the coins to buy power-ups.

* FakeLongitiveity: Each level has a limited amount of gold coins, eyeballs, and fish you can collect. Your scrapbook has these categories and shows what you've cleared.

* VideoGameCrueltyPotential: You can hit citizens and break things. If you get angry at one of the playable characters who you're not playing, you can punch them!

* ScriptBreaking: Even if Shrek get knocked unconscious near the beginning of the Prince Charming level, at the end Prince Charming says "I'll get you, Shrek!" and Shrek laughs triumphantly.

* ThisIsGonnaSuck: One of the knights in Shrek 2 say "Here we go!" when he dies.

Following the unexpected success of the first Shrek film, Creator/{{Dreamworks}} became aware of the brand’s commercial value and invested in the rather large series of tie-in games. By the time the film series ended in 2010, the series consisted of [[http://www.metacritic.com/game/xbox/shrek Shrek]], [[http://www.metacritic.com/game/gamecube/shrek-2 Shrek 2]], [[http://www.metacritic.com/game/ds/shrek-the-third Shrek The Third]] and [[http://www.metacritic.com/game/xbox-360/shrek-forever-after Shrek Forever After]] ActionAdventure titles as well as ''[[http://www.metacritic.com/game/xbox/shrek-superslam Shrek Super Slam]]'' FightingGame in the wake of VideoGame/MortalKombat and VideoGame/{{Tekken}}, several cart racing games [[http://www.metacritic.com/game/playstation-2/shrek-super-party Shrek Super Party]] interactive board game [[http://www.metacritic.com/game/xbox-360/shrek-n-roll and]] [[http://www.metacritic.com/game/ds/shrek-ogres-and-dronkeys more]].

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Following the unexpected success of the first Shrek film, Creator/{{Dreamworks}} became aware of the brand’s commercial value and invested in the rather large series of tie-in games. By the time the film series ended in 2010, the series consisted of [[http://www.metacritic.com/game/xbox/shrek Shrek]], [[http://www.metacritic.com/game/gamecube/shrek-2 Shrek 2]], [[http://www.metacritic.com/game/ds/shrek-the-third Shrek The Third]] and [[http://www.metacritic.com/game/xbox-360/shrek-forever-after Shrek Forever After]] ActionAdventure titles as well as ''[[http://www.metacritic.com/game/xbox/shrek-superslam Shrek Super Slam]]'' FightingGame in the wake of VideoGame/MortalKombat and VideoGame/Tekken, several cart racing games [[http://www.metacritic.com/game/playstation-2/shrek-super-party Shrek Super Party]] interactive board game [[http://www.metacritic.com/game/xbox-360/shrek-n-roll and]] [[http://www.metacritic.com/game/ds/shrek-ogres-and-dronkeys more]].

Following the unexpected success of the first Shrek film, Creator/Dreamworks became aware of the brand’s commercial value and invested in the rather large series of tie-in games. By the time the film series ended in 2010, the series consisted of [[http://www.metacritic.com/game/xbox/shrek Shrek]], [[http://www.metacritic.com/game/gamecube/shrek-2 Shrek 2]], [[http://www.metacritic.com/game/ds/shrek-the-third Shrek The Third]] and [[http://www.metacritic.com/game/xbox-360/shrek-forever-after Shrek Forever After]] ActionAdventure titles as well as ''[[http://www.metacritic.com/game/xbox/shrek-superslam Shrek Super Slam]]'' FightingGame in the wake of VideoGame/MortalKombat and VideoGame/Tekken, several cart racing games [[http://www.metacritic.com/game/playstation-2/shrek-super-party Shrek Super Party]] interactive board game [[http://www.metacritic.com/game/xbox-360/shrek-n-roll and]] [[http://www.metacritic.com/game/ds/shrek-ogres-and-dronkeys more]].

Following the unexpected success of the first Shrek film, Creator/Dreamworks became aware of the brand’s commercial value and invested in the series of tie-in games starting from the sequel. By the time the film series ended in 2010 with Shrek Forever After, the series consisted of Shrek 2, Shrek The Third and Shrek Forever After ActionAdventure titles as well as the FightingGame in the wake of VideoGame/MortalKombat and VideoGame/Tekken and the cart racing Shrek game. These games generally had rather tepid critical reception, but all of them sold successfully. Shrek TheThird was even a best-selling game at one point in 2007, mainly due to the better-than-expected quality and the lack of major studio releases at that point in time.

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** The dragonlings are this, though most of them can only hover at 2-3 m heights and so can be defeated in close combat. The elite white dragonlings fly higher, however, and are savvy enough to remain out of reach fro most of the fight.
** They all fly into the fray on brooms, but then drop them and fight on foot, allowing Shrek to defeat them. Maybe their brooms only have enough juice for short flights?

* BossArenaIdiocy: The elite red witches are protected by circular force fields Shrek can’t bypass by punching. The only way to breakable crates to launch at them and thus bring the barrier down.

* CollectionSidequest: All levels have silver beer mugs scattered around each level. Certain levels also have thematic collections: poisoned apples in the witches’ castle, golden oars and peg legs in the pirates’ levels, theatre tickets in the city, etc.. In one level, it becomes part of the main game, when Shrek and Arthur need to drop a coin down the well to appease Lady of the Lake. They don’t have coin, and to get it, they need to collect 7 crystal slippers for her first. Shrek is just as annoyed about it as the player by this point.

* GameplayAndStorySegregation: When Shrek and Arthur reach the fairy, she asks them to drop a coin down the well to complete the graduation. While the player would likely have several hundred coins at this point, neither Shrek nor Arthur have any money on them.

* GoodOldFisticuffs: Being an ogre, Shrek doesn’t need weapons and so he defeats most enemies hand-to-hand. Sometimes, though, he’s required to throw small objects (mainly crates and barrels) at shielded/faraway enemies.

* Roboteching: Witches’ magical projectiles firstly fly straight, then slightly arc towards your location.

* ShoutOut: On the pirate ship, there is a hideout underneath the ladder filled with breakable crates. Last one will reveal [[WesternAnimation/Madagascar a penguin saying: “Too hot. Need to find Antarctica.”]]

* SmashMook: The cyclopes essentially boil down to this.

* UnexpectedGameplayChange: Occurs twice with two levels devoted to the CastleCrasher minigame, once at the end of Academy section and then again when storming the Fiona’s prison.

* AirborneMook: The dragonlings are this, though most of them can only hover at 2-3 m heights and so can be defeated in close combat. The elite white dragonlings fly higher, however, and are savvy enough to remain out of reach fro most of the fight.
** Conveniently averted with witches. They all fly into the fray on brooms, but then drop them and fight on foot, allowing Shrek to defeat them. Maybe their brooms only have enough juice for short flights?

* BloodlessCarnage: In keeping with the source material, the only thing left behind enemies is fairy dust, which is collected by characters to fill the combo meter.
** However, this still allows for some rather impressive finishing moves on more advanced enemies. For instance, knights will often have their helmets punched into the base of their neck.

* CollectionSidequest: All levels have silver beer mugs scattered around each level. Certain levels also have thematic collections: poisoned apples in the witches’ castle, golden oars and peg legs in the pirates’ levels, theatre tickets in the city, etc.
** In one level, it becomes part of the main game, when Shrek and Arthur need to drop a coin down the well to appease Lady of the Lake. They don’t have coin, and to get it, they need to collect 7 crystal slippers for her first. Shrek is just as annoyed about it as the player by this point.
* ContinuityNod: One of the outfits you can unlock is the knight’s armor suit Shrek wore in the first film when rescuing Fiona.

* ImprobableWeaponUser: Frequent. Pirates attack with their oars, school’s hockey players attack with their implements, servants in the tutorial attack with brushes and ice carving tools. Special mention goes to the prisoners in the sewer level, which fight with sharpened spoons and can perform complicated routines with them.
** There are also the common ranged bandits, which throw some sort of weak blue-red projectile from their pouches. It’s never explained just what exactly do they use.

* SpinAttack: Used by the Sleeping Beauty and Arthur for their ChargedAttack. Fiona has a variety where she performs a pirouette.

* UniqueEnemy: Many enemies, like dragonlings or hockey players, are only encountered in their respective areas.
** Last level has Shrek fight against actors dressed like him for the Charming’s performance.

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