What Parents Should Know
If you're looking for ways to extend your children's experience with The Incredibles family, this is a fun way to play 10 games with these superheroes. But, the games are pretty routine arcade-type games. A better choice is Leapster's The Incredibles game.

Common Sense Media Review
The Incredibles: When Danger Calls, is a software game that allows kids to play 10 games with the movie characters from The Incredibles. The Incredibles are a family of superheroes consisting of Bob Parr (Mr. Incredible who has super strength), Helen Parr (Mrs. Incredible, formerly Elastigirl, who has super elasticity), Violet (the daughter who can create force fields to repel objects and can make herself invisible), and Dash (the son who is gifted with super speed).

Initially, kids play four games with the members of the Parr family to unlock four additional games played with the same family members -- only this time each member assumes their superhero persona. For example, the first game kids play with Helen Parr is in her kitchen. Players control Helen's arm as she stretches out to catch falling kitchen items that have been knocked out of cabinets by Dash. If the player successfully completes this game, a second game is unlocked -- this time it is played with Helen as Mrs. Incredible. In the second game, Mrs. Incredible has just landed in the ocean with her kids on her way to rescue her husband from the clutches of the evil Syndrome. The game is a side-scrolling one during which players control Mrs. Incredible (who has shaped herself into a boat) through an ocean filled with obstacles.

After kids play through the eight games with the Parr/Incredibles family, two more games become unlocked: one with good guy Frozone, and one with bad guy Syndrome. With Frozone, players help him to shoot ice into open windows of a burning building. With Syndrome, the player must stop the Omnidroid machine from destroying the city of Metroville by timing attacks using the arrow keys.

These 10 games all require kids to practice hand-eye coordination. They automatically get harder; however, they can be manually set to be played on one of three levels of difficulty. In between the games, kids see video clips from the movie. While fun, the games are variations of other commonly-used arcade games, including side-scrolling avoidance games, catch-something-falling exercises, and games that require you to hit buttons at just the right time.

Instead of being incredible, this compilation is just mediocre. A better Incredibles game is the one produced for the Leapster learning system called The Incredibles.