The Incredibles: Rise of the Underminer is a short but action-packed adventure that expands on the world of the beloved Pixar film. Players seamlessly switch between Mr. Incredible and Frozone, using their unique powers to battle robots and navigate levels inspired by the movie's sequel. While the level design can feel a bit repetitive and the combat has its limitations, the game captures the spirit of the Incredibles with exciting setpieces and a focus on superhero teamwork. It's a fun blast from the past for fans of the franchise, even if it doesn't reach groundbreaking heights.

For over a decade, this was considered the official continuation of The Incredibles movie, starting right where the movie left off (even going as far as playing the ending of the movie as you load up the game).

Unfortunately, this game doesn't really do the original movie any justice.
In the game, only Mr. Incredible and Frozone are playable characters, with the rest of the family off destroying drills off screen. They're never shown in game, nor do they have any lines at all.

This means the game is a two-player offering; the idea is to play this game with two people, and two controllers.
Unfortunately, I don't have anyone willing to play this game with me, so I had to go it alone.

The game has 11 main levels, all of which are pretty much the same beat-em-up level on a loop with a slight variation.
You can switch between the two characters and work together on puzzles, but the AI is duller than dishwater, sometimes getting in the way of attacks or just dying constantly, plus never actually helps.

Breaking up the monotony are a few boss battles which are pretty straight forward. The final boss, the Underminer himself, was done alone as the AI Player 2 was only needed for one section of it and kept dying. His constant respawning kept confusing enemies so it did help.

I started this game while waiting for files to transfer from my phone to a newly purchased tablet and finished the story before the files had finished copying.

This game feels like the kind of game you'd play with the friend your mom has allowed to come over.
You'd always be Mr. Incredible and the friend would always be Frozone.

I do feel I should emphasize for those that didn't read what platform I played this on, everything I say only applies to the DS version.

This game is not good like at all. It's an extremely simple 2.5D sidescrolling beat-em-up that gets repetitive and boring fast. There's only 3 different environments (with 2 of them basically just being palette swaps) and like 3 or 4 enemy types that never really change designs. The way you progress never really presents any challenge either as it's always the exact same platforming challenge.

Challenge should honestly be in like 5 layers of quotes cause Frozone destroys any challenge this game might have had. I will admit for the first couple levels I was dying a few times, even had to use a couple continues. This is cause I was using Mr. Incredible most of the time. He absolutely sucks in this game. His special has tons of start up and usually enemies will just hit you before you can do it so you're just stuck using a basic 3 hit combo. Then I swapped to Frozone and realized nearly every enemy in the game can be pretty much permanently frozen. Freezing enemies comes out fast also with the only ones that can have any form of reactions being enemies that focus on projectile attacks (which will usually hit you from off screen). Then you can just do a massive frost blast which instantly kills most weak enemies. Also the platforming challenges don't exist cause Frozone can just fly over them and in the ice levels the ice physics don't apply to him. Seriously he's busted.

The combat in this game is the absolute worst part about it. Mr. Incredible has a basic 3 hit combo, a special that can stun enemies, and can pick up frozen enemies (which is never needed in the game). Frozone can throw a small ice projectile, freeze smaller enemies (the same attack just stuns bigger ones, but some big ones can also be frozen which doesn't make much sense), and unleash a big frost attack. Your only methods of defense for either character is jumping and a dodge roll. There's no blocking or crouch attacking. There's also no way to upgrade abilities outside of finding collectibles that extend your special meter. Honestly this version feels more like an afterthought cause there are decent sidescrolling beat-em-ups on the DS (Naruto Ninja Council 2, Batman Brave and the Bold, Ben 10 Alien Force, etc) so there's not much of an excuse here.

Visually this game looks very meh. Like I said earlier, there's only 3 areas in the game: a cave, an ice cave, and a factory. The cave and ice cave look extremely similar just with the ice cave being blue. The robot enemies all look extremely generic with no effort being put into making them fit their environments. Everything just looks dull. I did like the attempt at making the cutscenes look kind of like a comic though.

Honestly don't even bother with the DS version, even if you've already played the console one and are just curious. Yeah it's short (I finished it in under 2 hours), but it's just a massive waste of time. Go play any other beat-em-up please.