Customer Reviews

The Incredibles

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4 star:		(0)
3 star:		(1)
2 star:		(3)
1 star:		(5)

 

 

Software producers who release buggy software early, just to get it on the market before Christmas, should be boycotted. I have wasted a lot of time trying to get the Incredibles loaded on my daughter's XP system. (All her other new Christmas computer games work fine.) DOWN WITH THQ!!!!!!!!!

This is another of those annoying games where you have to try over and over and over until you get it right. The book says you can save your progress at any point, but you can't. You restart at a checkpoint. If you exit the game and come back, you have to restart the level. The game crashed frequently in Win XP, but I switched compatibility to Win 98 and it's working better. Graphics are good, but the constantly changing viewpoint is really annoying. The Dash level was good, but now I'm stuck on Mr. Incredible trying to jump on a ledge. I make it maybe 1 in 20 tries, only to get killed afterwards trying to find where to go.

The characters are a little difficult to control, so that could be better, but I can live with it. The real problem is that this game has been freezing up on me on my Windows XP system. Checking some of the tech support forums on the Web shows that some other people have been having the same problem, and that THQ is investigating.

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!

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.

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.

This could have been a fun game except there was no logic to the savepoints. AND... I got about 90% through the game and couldn't complete one of the ending game sequences because it was impossible. Other posts said they had to try 100's of times to get through the ending level. What a disappointment. Booooo.....

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.

Graphics:
The cut scenes are just like the movie.
One thing that makes Pixar animations different to the usual children's animations is that they are created with computer graphics only. Maybe this is why the movies tend to make such a smooth transition to consoles and look excellent every time.
You do need a pretty good computer to run the game. Seems to work fine on my P4 with a Geforce 2 card.

Controls, gameplay and etc.
Mr. Incredible and Elastigirl have straightforward kick/punch levels, daughter Violet's levels us powers of invisibility. On the whole the game handles well and manages to stay fun for the most part. No problems installing at all. You do need to play with disc 2 inserted, that might confuse some people.

Sound: Sound fx and characters from the movie are in the game so the voice acting is alot higher than most games.

If you liked the movie, you should like this game.

Although I purchased this for my children and their computer, you need a powerful graphics driver to run it smoothly. We therefore play it on my Power Mac Dual G5 apple and it runs beautifully. We have owned it for quite a while and still have not completed the adventures. Each level challenges the player to think as well as be quick with the controls. They must figure out how to get out of certain jams that the bad guys toss at Bob, Helen, Dash, or Violet Parr. Enjoy!