From: THQ Average Rating: Binding: CD-ROM ESRB Age Rating: Teen Format: CD-ROM Label: THQ Legal Disclaimer: Warranty does not cover misuse of product. Number of Items: 1 Release Date: October 28, 2004
Features:
Intense superhero action/adventure gameplay
Help save the world; game based on the movie's storyline
Powers include super strength, speed, elasticity, and invisibility
Live the film's action, adventure, and humor over 18 levels
Product Description: The Incredibles brings home the fun and adventure of the hit animated film! A super-powered family is trying to live a quiet life in the suburbs, when they're forced into action to save the world. Live up to your superhero name and be incredible -- the world(and your family) is counting on you!
Whatever you do, don't buy this game! The control scheme for this game is so bad that it's almost unplayable.
This should have been a fun game, even though the gameplay is shallow and scripted, but of all the video games that I have played this is the only one I'm giving up on. I'm giving it one star only because zero wasn't an option.
Let me be clear about this, the game runs fine on my WinXP machine, although many people seem to have had problems with stability. I've also tried various controllers and the keyboard to see if there is any way to work around the game's deficiencies.
The problem isn't incompatibility or inexperience, the game just really is that bad.
In a nutshell, the camera does not track your character well, it absolutely will not stay behind your head, more often than not you are watching yourself from the side or you are running blind straight at the camera. Mouselook is really freelook, it moves the camera around without turning your character at all, so you can not use it to turn or grab things. Also, strafe and turn have been combined so that if you turn left or right you immediately start running around in a circle.
That could be managed if you could see where you're going, but because the camera doesn't stay centered behind your head you constantly find yourself running around blind, unable to complete even the simplest tasks because your character and the camera will not both point in the same direction at the same time.
Oh yeah, the game uses auto-targeting so if you and the camera are having a disagreement it basically means that you will not be able to punch, kick, grab, use or throw anything. But I guess that's OK, just run around in a circle and watch yourself from the side until you get killed. That's obviously what the game designers intended.
The thing that really burns me is that THQ could probably fix this game with a patch. All that's really needed is to fix mouselook so that it controls both the character's focus and the camera angle at the same time, the way that it does in every other PC game. But, obviously they don't care enough to bother.
Pixar should be embarassed to be associated with this game.
Appalling PC Control System Appalling, for the PC anyway, I can't speak for the console versions; the PC contol system is absolutely appalling, I cannot get a USB gamepad to work, cannot map keyboard controls, I couldn't get the mouse to work at all (although it seems some reviewers have albiet not very well). And this is from an experienced gamer with a current PC, even my kids gave up on the default control system. This is a an extremely poor console port to PC.
Poorly Executed Eye Candy Originally purchased for a 9yo female cousin. Attempted installation on two of their systems, but picky video card compatibility meant I ended up with it at my house.
Good thing. I wouldn't wish this game on any kid. I'm an experienced PC gamer and I lost patience after a couple hours.
This game fails miserably in 3 key areas (in order of lameness): 1. "Mouse-look" control is HORRID! It's not true mouse-look, like you point your mouse and then keyboard direction is relative to that. Nope. No matter which direction your mouse-view is pointing the player turns left relative to their static onscreen position.
Even if mouse-look control was correct, it severely lags in reaction to your movements and then once it DOES catch up, the movement is like acceleration on the desktop, so it over-pivots.
To top it off, when the character is up near/against a vertical surface, you can't pivot your view to look up. You have to move away from the surface to aim at certain objectives. Very annoying!
And don't tell me I need to adjust the sensitivity or some obvious "tip". I know my way around an interface. Even a bad one like this.
2. Controls are complicated, especially for a game marketed for kids. It's as if the the PC platform was programmed as an afterthought. The controls are probably straight-forward on a 7+ button game console controller.
3. The game saves are controlling. Good thing I'm a more patient adult, if I was a kid given to short attention spans, I'd first throw my litle sister at the monitor then I'd throw the CDs for this game at my parents. It's pathetic of a modern game to make a player completely start a level over instead of at obvious checkpoints (which there are). If THQ's hidden desire is to control little kiddies into hour after hour of vain attempts at overly difficult levels, they may succeed with this method of game saves.
I feel slightly guilty about attempting to sell this junk on Ebay (even wth fair warning), but perhaps there's some masochist out there that enjoys underdeveloped hype titles like this one!
a review from a guy u all dont no Ok, dont get angry at me because im still playing the game. The beggining is really fun, you get to punch a lot of people, throw em off building, its cool. With the stretchy woman, you can throw bombs at the people also. BUT,(notice how there is always a but in a review) there are some problems, there is some glitches in the game sometimes, If you are in a really bad mood, and you want to play the levels in the jungle, may I warn you, there are sometimes where you just wanna blow up your computer. In the level where the house is burning down. There is the one part where you have to jump from lantern to lantern, IT IS VERY ANNOYING!You have to be an extremly good guitarist are video gameist.(is that a job?) But there are upsides too. The cheats are really cool, one of the cheats:"Einsteinium" makes ur head bigger(dont blame me if the stien part is spelled wrong. I'm not really good with the I before E rule.) Otherwise than those parts it is a very fun game. Oh and did I mention there is a hidden mode. BUT I AM STILL PLAYING SO I DONT NO WHAT IT IS YET. Anyway it has a lot to promise but although like most Disney Video Games it is a short game with 19 levels, and if your extremly good at video games don't buy it, but if you are like younger you should buy it. I would recomend this game to kids 8-12 and up
hard game to play The action is too jerky with a mouse turning Incredibles around. I have a new Dell 8400 with 128meg video card and I get motion-sickness playing. EA Games have much smoother mouse direction. I tried contacting THQ with no response back.
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