History VideoGame / Madagascar

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: The game was released before the lemurs got their personalities fully established. As such, it can be strange to hear Mort being smarter than how he's usually portrayed, and seeing King Julien without his crown.

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: The game was released before the lemurs got their personalities fully established. As such, it can be strange to hear Mort speaking in full sentences and being smarter than how he's usually portrayed.

* AndNowForSomeoneCompletelyDifferent: The level Penguin Mutiny has you playing as Skipper the penguin rather than Alex, Marty, Gloria or Melman. This is the only level where you play as him.

* AdaptationExpansion: To allow for more levels, the game goes into detail about events the movie glossed over (Marty's escape from the zoo and Marty's quest to find Alex after he goes feral) and also adds in some new story elements (how the New Yorkers helped the lemurs set up their party, Marty, Gloria and Melman finding objects to reconstruct the liberty statue) in the process.

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: The game was released before the lemurs got their personalities fully established. As such, it can be strange to hear Mort speaking in full sentences and being smarter than how he's usually portrayed.

*** If Marty loses against the croc in the final segment, the croc will run off with Mort and eat him.

** The final segment of Save the Lemurs tasks Alex with escorting a group of lemurs down [[IronicName The Perfectly Safe Path]] while protecting them from the attacking fossa. Letting too many lemurs get taken away results in King Julien scolding Alex and forcing you to redo the segment again. The level can actually be completed if only a small number of lemurs get taken, however.

** Moto Moto was always pretty shallow, but in the movie, he remained faithful to Gloria during their short-lived romance. Here, however, he goes behind Gloria's back to flirt with the other female hippos, and exploits her by having her gather pearls to make a necklace for him (which he only states after she's already gathered them).

* BerserkButton: Moto Moto does not like being followed around and photographed constantly (the one time Alex had to take his picture he wasn't angry about since he wasn't having to follow him repeatedly), and will mercilessly ''kick'' King Julian, a lemur ''several times'' smaller than him, several feet back if he catches him photographing him, also often telling him to get lost when just seeing him nearby.

* AdaptationalJerkass: Although Zuba is still supportive of his son Alex in the game for the most part, he willingly allows Makunga to banish him with the Hat of Shame unlike in the film (the fact that Makunga being TheUsurper is removed in the game and therefore ''only'' Alex is banished likely plays a part in this).

* SimonSaysMinigame: Plenty of examples. The straightest is probably one during the volcano segment, when Julian must enter a dance-off to avoid being sacrificed before the shark falls in there.

* MightyRoar: In all games, Alex’s primary attack is to roar at his enemies, which scares some larger enemies (like other lions) away and kills smaller critters, [[WildMassGuessing possibly]] by causing them heart attacks.

* NonStandardGameOver: Levels where Melman needs to stick to higher ground will have cutscenes should he land on the ground naturally. If he touches the ground in the third level, he panics as a car comes driving towards him. Touching the lower ground or colliding with Alex in Coming of Age results in the now-feral lion stealing Mort from Melman and running off to eat him.

** The EscortMission segment of Save the Lemurs has different dialogue depending on if Alex saved all the lemurs or not. If he saved all of them, Julien and Maurice will commend him for doing so, but if he only saved some of them, Maurice will mourn the death of Mort's cousin.

* GameplayAndStorySegregation: When Skipper uses the DisgustingPublicToilets as a distraction, two other generic sailors accompany Big Louie to deal with the toilets. In actual gameplay however, one of these two sailors can be knocked out by Skipper before he activates the toilets, despite then seeming to be okay when he goes to check on them. In addition, the other sailor, whom is on a path that Skipper cannot reach due to Big Louie blocking off the path still roams the area even though he was baited into the room previously.

* JokeCharacter: Mort who's exclusive to the console version. Whereas other characters have two to four abilities, he can only perform a weak roll. He can’t even attack normally with it: in order to defeat the lizards and the croc, he is forced to knock the poison mushrooms into their maws with it.

* UseYourHead: In both games, one of Melman’s attacks is a headbutt, courtesy of his long neck. When assembling the plane in Escape 2 Africa, he is even asked to hammer the nails in for several sections.

'''Melman''': Mud, again? No way!

* DisgustingPublicToilet: Invoked in Penguin Mutiny when Skipper flushes all the toilets on the ship, distracting nearby crewmen enough for him to sneak past.

* HeliCritter: During the boss battle with him in Back to the Beach, the albino crocodile gets back on his feet after being knocked down by hovering with his tail in this fashion.

** One scene in the NY Street Chase has Alex, Melman, and Gloria tracking Marty down after finding his poop in an alleyway. The poop is very detailed and even gets a close-up.

--> '''Alex''': At last! playtime!\\

--> '''Alex''': At last, playtime!\\