Fantastic Four

by ACTIVISION

Product Features

• Become each member of the Fantastic Four, using their talents and abilities to solve puzzles, overcome obstacles and combat enemies
• Completely original storyline that follows the film's story
• Use Mr. Fantastic's brains & stretching powers, the Torch's flame powers, the Thing's strength and the Invisible Girl's stealth powers to face Dr. Doom and his weapons
• Control the group as a team with Character switching, or go into team-based combat and Two-player co-op mode
• Wreak havoc on your enemies in a variety of destructible environments

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B0007RDM5Q
• Product Dimensions: 7.5 x 5.5 x 0.8 inches ; 4.8 ounces
• Media: Video Game
• Release Date: June 21, 2005
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (27 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #17,536 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Platform: PlayStation2

Harness the POWER OF FOUR! "...awesome powers, insane co-op gameplay", says the Game Informer. One spectacular accident changes 4 humans into the world's most uniques team of super heros! MR. FANTASTIC, INVISIBLE WOMAN, THE HUMAN TORCH and THE THING. Featuring the voices of: JESSICA ALBA, MICHAEL CHIKUS, IDAN GRUFFUDD, CHRIS EVANS and JULIAN McMAHON

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

33 of 37 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Finally, a Fantastic Game, June 29, 2005

By 

Jon Huff "designer and aritst" (IL United States) - See all my reviews
(REAL NAME)   

= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Fantastic Four (Video Game)

For anyone who's played the last Fantastic Four (for the original Playstation) you know FF fans have been waiting a LONG time for a decent Fantatstic Four game. Thankfully, we get one that goes well beyond decent.

It's hard to imagine the same company published both of them. Whereas the old FF game was repetitive and the use of the FF's powers rather unimaginitive, the new game uses the FF's powers to full effect.

The graphics (both in game and in the cinematics) are better then average. It's great that the main cast did the voices for the game as they sound great. Each character has their own interesting moves. Mr. Fantastic is the most surpisingly fun, with the ability to stretch, send out exploding spider-machines that act as mines, and create a whirl-wind attack with his fists. Sue can turn invisible as well as command a near indestructible force-field around herself. She can also use this to pick up and throw objects. Johnny hovers in the air, and can be a bit unweildy in his movements at first because they are so rapid. But once you get the hang of him, he's fun. You can fly around, throwing fireballs or creating a tornado of fire. Ben is a huge bruiser of a character. He's a lot of fun to use as he's not horribly slow like some large characters in videogames can be. He has some great grapple/attack actions as well as the ability to swing cars around to attack enemies!

In addition to each individual character attacks, each character has unique abilities they can perform during the course of the game, relying on their powers. This is a way to showcase the powers that can't really translate into mere button-mashing. Reed can "hack" into computer systems with a mini-game, Thing can do some MAJOR damage, etc.

I've not played through all of the game just yet, but the attacks you can use and the enemies are varied enough that it hasn't gotten boring. The game goes well beyond the movie's scope and has the FF jetting off to all sorts of locations. There is definitely replay value, as you are scored and you can unlock a lot of extras by searching for F4 Secrets. Also, you can choose how to spend upgrades so that you can juice up the power on the characters or watch some neat bonus materials.

Peope are saying the game takes about 5 - 10 hours to complete depending on whether you seek out the extras or not. While not that huge, it's a respectable length for today's action games.

The unique 4-character mode of play is fun. Pioneered by X-men Legends (also published by Activision), you can switch between the members of the Fantastic 4 at the mere hit of the direction pad button. This is extremely useful in battle situations. This can make the camera whiz around until it finds the character you selected, which can be slightly disorienting. However, this is the only instance I can think of where the camera of the movie can be a problem.

All in all, an excellent action-adventure game, that continues to break the old theory that games based on movies couldn't be well done and fun.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic? ... questionable..., August 6, 2005

By 

Eddy Campbell (Ireland) - See all my reviews

= Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Fantastic Four (Video Game)

Fantastic Four isn't the best game i've played this year, but it still has quite a lot of entertainment value. In all honesty, its not a game i would buy. I rented it for a week, and that was just long enough to clear it with a couple of hours a day gameplay.

The game is basically a simple beat'em'up. You beat your way through each level (some of them are so short they don't even seem like an entire level), and gather points all along the way as you perform combos and cosmic attacks.

I felt there was nothing wrong with this, though. some levels you have only one member of the team, other times 2, or 3 - or the whole lot, and you use the directional pad to switch to each one of them while you fight against thugs, robots, monsters, spiders, villains... etc, etc...
If your a reasonably lazy gamer, like me, and you don't like too much of a strenuous challenge with the game, you WILL enjoy it. using their superpowers never gets old.
I found that i liked playing as the Invisible Girl the most, because she seemed to have the most range in cosmic power. She can send a large beam of lethal cosmic power at her enemies, bput a big protective ball around herself, fire a ball of energy which freezes her enemies, and she's also quite good with her fists.

The Human Torch, on the other hand, wasnt as good. He's weak with punches, and his powers don't have too much of an effect on his enemies.
Mr.Fantastic would be third from the top. His spinning elasticated arms arent as exciting as some of the others' powers, but he is quite good.
Second best would be The Thing. He big and strong and packs the most behind a punch.

There's a good 40 or so missions, and it really is quite entertaining. But as I said, if you're looking for a challenge, this game probably isnt for you.
For those of you like me, here's the

INFINITE COSMIC POWER CHEAT:

UP, SQUAREx3, LEFT, RIGHT, CIRCLE.
.....Enjoy..... ;-)

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic game!, July 21, 2005

A Kid's Review

= Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Fantastic Four (Video Game)

The fantastic four is an awsome game if you'v ever wanted to have the powers to be invisible, stretch to no limit, smash all the bad guys, and flame on and shoot fire balls out of your hands. But its not one of those games that you'll wanna keep on playing unless your a huge fan of the fantastic four. If you play the game non stop you will beat it in less then a day or two. Other then that its a great game, but I recomend renting it not buying it...

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