The Incredibles: Rise of the Underminer
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| Developer(s) | YUKE's Future Media Creators Pacific Coast Power & Light (PSP) |
| Publisher(s) | THQ Capcom (Europe, Japan) |
| Platform(s) | PlayStation 2, GameCube, Xbox, Mac OS X, GBA, Nintendo DS, PlayStation Portable, Windows |
| Release | November 2005 |
| Genre(s) | Action, Adventure |
| Mode(s) | Single player |
The Incredibles: Rise of the Underminer is a video game which takes place after the events of the animated film The Incredibles. It features Mr. Incredible and Frozone fighting the Underminer's legion of robot minions. Other members of the Incredibles are not playable characters.
Storyline
The game starts off with the final movie scene in which the Parr family walked out from Dash's race, the Underminer drilled out of the ground and monologued on how he will rule the world, as the Incredibles got into their suits and prepared for battle. The game then takes its own storyline as the Incredibles face off against a new enemy called the Underminer. Frozone comes in and the six Supers face off against the villain. Before they can confront him however, drills and robots come out of the ground like moles in a garden. Mr. Incredible tells his family to go and evacuate the city, as well as stopping the drills, along with the rest of the citizens of Metroville. Then Mr. Incredible and Frozone team up and agree to get to the Underminer before he causes any more damage. Along the way, the two Supers fight against robots and avoid things falling out of the sky. The two get to the Underminer's machine, but he quickly escapes underground. Mr. Incredible and Frozone venture underground and fight more robots.
As they continue on, Mr. Incredible and Frozone get to the main computer and learn of the Magnomizer, a machine that he has built which can be a threat to the world if it isn't stopped. In order to stop it, the two Supers must go through the Sludge Station.
Mr. Incredible and Frozone fight through more robots and obstacles. They eventually destroy a machine blocking their path, and destroy a wall which leads outside into a snowy part of the underground. They go through it and get into a room where they fight the Magnomizer Guardian and its robots. Mr. Incredible keeps on throwing objects towards the Magnomizer Guardian. He apparently does enough to make it unable to shoot out any sludge balls or fire balls, thus destroying it.
They then take an elevator that leads to the Magnomizer basement, where they figure out that the place is unstable and falling apart without the Magnomizer Guardian. They fight through more robots again and make their way up, avoiding falling from the collapsing stairs that they go through and still battling off robots. They eventually reach the top roof of the Magnomizer, where the machine itself is. While Mr. Incredible unscrews the bolts that holds down the Magnomizer with his super strength, Frozone uses his powers to keep off the guarding robots. Finally, Mr. Incredible unscrews every bolt holding down the Magnomizer and the entire Magnomizer building starts to blow up. Mr. Incredible and Frozone quickly escape through a tank-like machine, and it falls all the way into a deep, dark pit the machine makes when it falls through the ground.
The Underminer is aware that Mr. Incredible and Frozone have destroyed the Magnomizer and alerts the Crustodian, the head of the Giant Robot Factory, that the two Supers might arrive to the Factory. The Crustodian alarms every robot in the factory about Mr. Incredible and Frozone's arrival. TFinally, the two arrive and fight against even more robots. Eventually, the two reach the main office where the Crustodian is. They fight him and take down more robots helping him, also accidentally activating a bomb that will blow up the factory - starting with the office! Eventually, Mr. Incredible and Frozone defeat the Crustodian in battle by destroying his giant robot body and the entire place slowly starts to crumble. The Crustodian, who is really just a glass cylinder with electricity in it to keep it active, begins to leave, as his remaining live head rolls and jumps off a ledge, and Mr. Incredible is obsessed with stopping him. Frozone tells Mr. Incredible they have no time, and Mr. Incredible leaves once the Crustodian disappears. They take an elevator that leads them to an underwater tower.
Mr. Incredible and Frozone figure out they are in a power impressure plant run by a robot named Dug - and the plant is slowly breaking and the water is coming through! After travelling from elevator to elevator and fighting off difficult robots, the two finally reach Dug. Dug tells him he didn't mean to have robots attack the two Supers and he agrees to help them save a group of scientists that are trapped somewhere. On the way the two help protect Dug from robots he can't command, upcoming lasers, deadly obstacles, and gaps. After all this, Dug opens an elevator for Mr. Incredible and Frozone to go into to save the scientists. Unfortunately, Dug refuses to go any further and leaves Mr. Incredible and Frozone on their own.
The Underminer announces to all his robots that even though most of his plans are foiled and the robot army is delayed, Doomsday will come. The robots' next mission is to kill the scientists once the sludge is completed. Mr. Incredible and Frozone easily find the scientists in the Corrupterator building, but they must keep them from getting killed by lasers. After the scientists are saved, they go down through an escape tunnel and Mr. Incredible and Frozone continue their journey. They eventually confront the Underminer and try to stop him, but the mutant escapes in his giant robot, the Gilgenbot. Mr. Incredible and Frozone then get to an elevator in which they go up to the ground to stop the Underminer once and for all as the rest of the Corrupterator building falls to a crumbling death.
Mr. Incredible and Frozone finally come out aboveground, and confront the Underminer, who shows off his giant machine called the Gilgenbot. But first, Mr. Incredible and Frozone must defeat a group of robots the Underminer has for them. After they succeed, the Underminer comes in to attack with another, smaller machine. The two damage the machine, but the Underminer returns to the Gilgenbot to rest while the rest of his machines try to defeat Mr. Incredible and Frozone. The two Supers succeed in taking down the machines and the Underminer returns to fight Mr. Incredible and Frozone. Even though he returned to his machine, he quickly came back with no obstacles for Mr. Incredible and Frozone to face. In the end, Mr. Incredible and Frozone finally defeat the Underminer, making his machine go haywire, fly into the sky, and come down hard on the Gilgenbot, causing a giant explosion that kills the Underminer. Mr. Incredible and Frozone escape the blast and Mr. Incredible's family arrive just in time to watch with Mr. Incredible and Frozone defeat the Underminer and save the world once more.
Introduced Characters
The Underminer
The Underminer is the villain of the game, and is a sort of human mole. He is a parody of the Fantastic Four villain, Mole Man.
The Scientists
Nothing is known about the non-human scientists but they could be some kind of "alien life forms" that the Underminer captured or even, for that matter, created. Mr. Incredible and Frozone had to save them from robots and lasers that the Underminer had ordered to kill them. They ran off through an escape tunnel and in the bonus levels shortly after the Underminer is killed by Mr. Incredible and Frozone, the scientists got into their helicopters to flee the destruction of the Underminer's remaining robots. They later helped Mr. Incredible and Frozone create a bridge to destroy the last remnants of the Underminer's hideouts.
The Magnomizer Guardian
The Magnomizer Guardian was a machine built by the Underminer to protect his latest machine, the Magnomizer. She was a floating machine that could fire out regular and missile sludge and fire balls, also summoning other robots if she ever needed help in battle. The Magnomizer Guardian is the first boss in the game. After Mr. Incredible and Frozone destroyed it, the Magnomizer building itself began collapsing, but Mr. Incredible successfully destroyed the Magnomizer by unscrewing the bolts that held the machine down.
The Crustodian
The Crustodian was a machine built by the Underminer to lead his Giant Robot Factory. He is one of the bosses in the game. He appears to be a glass jar with statics, attached to a giant machine.
After Mr. Incredible and Frozone destroyed the Magnomizer, the Underminer alerted the Crustodian about the arrival of the Supers to the Crustodian's Giant Robot Factory. The Crustodian alerted every active robot about Mr. Incredible and Frozone's arrival. They were all destroyed by the Supers when they confronted the Crustodian in his office. The Crustodian got into a battle with Mr. Incredible and Frozone, and tricked the two Supers into activating a bomb which would destroy the entire factory, starting with the main office. Mr. Incredible and Frozone fought the Crustodian, and defeated him by damaging him so much that his body blew up. His head, however, remained alive and he rolled off a ledge, where he escaped.
Dug
Dug was a robot built by the Underminer to operate an underwater station. Dug was, however, the only robot with feelings: a machine which was the Underminer's only flaw.
After Mr. Incredible and Frozone defeated the Crustodian in battle and destroyed his factory, escaping the disaster, they then travelled across the station, which was slowly falling apart and letting the water come in, defeated a lot of robots and met up with Dug, learning he was the only good robot the Underminer had ever built. Dug agreed to help the two Supers to save the non-human scientists the Underminer held captive. They traveled floor to floor, protecting Dug from robots he couldn't control, and from other obstacles. In the end, Incredible and Frozone got to the floor where they needed to go to save the scientists, but Dug refused to go any further, stating he wants to stay in his station. The station was likely destroyed by the flood of water, and Dug with it.