Customer Reviews

LeapFrog Leapster Educational Game: The Incredibles

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4 star:		(6)
3 star:		(2)
2 star:		(3)
1 star:		(2)

 

 

It is great. I like the Mrs Incredible game best. Because she spells words with me. The opening credits are neat too.
review from Emma. age 6

From her mom-
I have been amazed at how well she has done with this game, since it has a 2nd and 3rd grade level on it. I was concerned it would be too advanced and not be fun for her. Instead, she has been challenged but in a fun and positive way. This is great game for encouraging Spelling, Reading, and Math!

This game is fantastic. It goes over parts of a sentence, addition, > <, multiplication, spelling and more. My kids are 5 and 7 and it is difficult to get them to put it down. We have almost all the cartriges but this is their favorite.

I purchased this game for my 7-year-old girl, who has several other Leapster cartridges. While the educational material was not too easy nor too challenging for her, she became frustrated that she could not earn a certain "ticket" she needed in order to complete the final level (one section requires tickets earned during other section playtimes). I myself tried to get that specific ticket for her several times, and I wasn't able to, even after over an hour of MY playing for it.

Still, it was fun (yes, even for me!) and a big "must-have" for any "Incredibles" fan between 7 and 9 years old.

This game was a big disappointment. I'd even venture to say that it illustrates how NOT to design an educational game. The clumsiness of the game gets in the way of the learning and the fun. The controls - at least for the math game (my daughter and I got fed up and didn't try the others) - are not at all intuitive. Buyers who don't read manuals carefully, beware. But at least you'd think the game would become fun once that wall was scaled. Unfortunately, the mechanism for making Mr. Incredible move the math blocks is so clumsy that, whether you can solve the math problems or not, it's very difficult to move 5 of them to their proper spots in 60 seconds. This seems to leave you stuck at the first level of the game, regardless of your math knowledge. Is the point to have fun and practice math, or to learn how to move blocks?

Okay, we own a lot of Leapster cartridges. My kids may have tried this out, but they haven't played it much at all.

There are 5 characters, each one associated with a different game. Each game has two levels. In addition to the basic games I describe, there are bonus rounds:

Mr. Incredible: Solve the addition and multiplication problems. The answers are on the heads of a statue. Choose the statue with the correct answer and push or pull it into position. Level 1: The addition problems feature serial addition of three single digit numbers. Level 2: The multiplication problems feature single digit multiplication of two single digit numbers.

Mrs. Incredible: Doors open and close revealing letters to a word. Grab the letters to spell a word before the door closes. They must be grabbed in the correct order. Level 1: The words are about five or six letters long. Level 2: The words are about the same length as Level 1, but they are more difficult to spell because they do not follow the basic phonics rules.

Dash: Pick up blocks to build the correct number. For example, if the number is 605, pick up blocks 600 and 5, put the 600 in the hundreds place and the 5 in the ones place. Level 1: The numbers are three digits long. Level 2: The numbers are four digits long.

Violet: Violet has to find the part of speech in the maze that completes the sentence. Level 1: This level focuses on finding the nouns. An example is "Find the noun that completes the sentence." The sentence is "The ___ throws a robot," and the choices are "ran," "happy," "enemy." Level 2: Find adjectives to complete the sentence.

Syndrome: Help navigate the Incredibles family work together to get through the jungle. Must use some logic, like use Mr. Incredible's strength to move rocks or Mrs. Incredible's stretch to reach across a chasm.

Summary: The games are not bad and they are very educational. The problem I think is The Incredibles appeals to a younger audience, maybe preschool level, and the skills it requires are first through third grade level. They were too difficult for my kids when I bought the cartridge, still too difficult for my now 5 year old; but The Incredibles is considered too babyish by my 7 year old who could now play the games.

This is one of his favorite cartridges. He was a little discouraged at first as some of the games were over his head but he's figured them out and plays it as much as I'll let him now. Definitely recommend having a Leapster backback to hold the Leapster and all the cartridges (plus spare batteries!) for trips and to keep away from younger siblings.

My sister bought the Incredibles leapster game for my 9 year old daughter for her birthday - she loves it! Practicing multiplication and spelling words has never been something I could get her to do on her own. Now she WANTS to play all the learning games the so that she gets enough points to win access cards. The cards let her make progress in the jungle game. I suppose someday she'll beat the bad guy, but until then, this game has her practicing away!

Purchased this item for my 3-year-old to use because he liked the movie so much. Even though the game is for 2nd-3rd grade, he was still able to get the answers correct after practicing for awhile. I do like the way that you can easily press the help button on the leapster l-max in order to review the concepts. By utilizing this feature, my son was able to teach himself about the math, place value, etc. very easily.

My kids got this one for Christmas, and they say it is AWESOME! :) They like the spelling, math and parts of speech games alot. It is so neat that they like to play these learning games. My two older children are 6 and 7 years old. And I hope Leap frog will come out with more for grades 2nd and 3rd and up...

I bought my kids Leapsters on an impulse in December just before a long plane trip. They loved them and it kept them entertained the whole time in the airport and on the plane. I got headphones and they fit in the case. I bought the Incredibles game for my son and he really likes it. He is in 2nd grade. My only complaint is that some of the games require that he use cards he has accrued by earning points, but we cannot figure out how this works. And the instruction manual did not explain it. I haven't been able to gauge how much he is learning but it sure keeps them entertained in a more educational way than other electronic games! I also hope they come out with more cartridges for older kids.