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: B0007RDM6A
• Product Dimensions: 7.5 x 5.5 x 0.8 inches ; 4.5 ounces
• Media: Video Game
• Release Date: June 21, 2005
• Average Customer Review: 2.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #6,051 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)

Product Description

Platform: Xbox

The Movie Event of 2005 is About to Become the Most Fantastic Game of the Year.Relive the movie experience with character likenesses locations and villains from the upcoming summer blockbuster. Go beyond the movie with a completely original storyline that follows the movie story arch (penned by Hollywood writer Zak Penn). Play as each unique member of the Fantastic Four as you assume their persona and master their individual talents to solve puzzles overcome obstacles and combat enemies.Mr. Fantastic (Intelligence): Use your ability to stretch in order to attack from a distance squeeze into tight spaces and reach places no one else can. Use Mr. Fantastic's brainpower to heal characters hack computers over-ride security systems and take control of enemy's weapons to use against them.The Invisible Girl (Stealth): Turn invisible and perform stealth moves with ninja-like speed or immobilize enemies through telekinetic powers.The Human Torch (Fire): Create walls of fire and supernova fireballs as you hover or shoot fire from your fingertips and bend flames at your will as you ward off enemies.The Thing (Strength): Use brute force to pick up objects or tear them apart break through walls and obstacles and obliterate enemies.Control the Fantastic Four together as a team with dynamic switching team-based combat and two-player co-op mode.Wreak havoc on enemies in destructible environments that get thrashed in battle.Format: XBOX Genre: ACTION/ADVENTURE Rating: T - Teen UPC: 047875805811 Manufacturer No: 80581

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars It is so NOT "clobberin' time", July 10, 2005

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tropic_of_criticism - See all my reviews

= Fun:1.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Fantastic Four (Video Game)

You know, I had hopes for this game. I really did. THE HULK was certainly a playable adventure that delivered on the feeling of "being the Hulk". Both SPIDERMAN games did credit to their source material. And I've heard that most of the X-MEN games translated well, too.

There are, after all, some constants in the comic book gaming universe. If the game is based on a DC character, it will be the worst and most painful thing you've ever played. Witness the many attempts to make Batman and Superman even remotely interesting. Platform after platform have given us NOTHING with these characters.

So what kind of world, I ask you, do we live in now where a Batman game is arguably one of the best adaptations of all time, and Stan Lee allowed this...abomination?

I have NEVER been so totally disappointed, so totally early, by any game. EVER.

If you don't know by the first mission--which comes, mind you, PRIOR to the team becoming "fantastic"--that this game is gonna suck, I'd argue that you've never played a good video game in your life. Harsh words? Yes. But true. Oh, so sadly, sadly true.

I don't even really know how to qualify the problems with this game other than to say I can't really wrap my mind around anything GOOD the game has to offer. Voice acting? No. Story? No. Graphics. Certainly not. Clever realization of super powers? Um, again, not so much. Good online play? It doesn't even exist. Puzzles that are satisfying once you figure them out? You try opening a door in the early part of this game.

It's just button-mashing madness, with a hint that maybe there might have been a good idea at one faraway stage in the game's development.

I cannot believe I paid full price, or indeed, ANY price for this game. This game is about one thing and one thing only: release date. As long as the producers got something halfway playable out there before the movie premiered, then they accomplished their central mission. This game is a blatant example of a company trying to make its money back off of people hyped by a film, without worrying about any of those pesky details like graphics or gameplay. Granted, this isn't as bad as the notorious ET game back in the 80s--but, in 2005 terms, it's pretty close. After all the strides that movie tie-in games have made in the last couple of years to actually be GOOD in their own right, it's just depressing to see that there are still some companies out there who see the license as a negotiated right rather than a privilege to be cherished.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars this software is really buggy, August 21, 2005

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Partridge "vonswarengin" (los angeles) - See all my reviews

= Fun:3.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Fantastic Four (Video Game)

during certain parts of the game, each super hero has to "hover" over hotspots, and click "B" in order to execute a power, but "B" is also an action button....so, you could be fighting, and then have to "hover" and wait for the software to figure out that you are there, and not waiting to fight. And once you are there, you have to do some dumb sequence of keystokes, in order to get the super hero to execute the move.

Mr. Fantastic has to figure out some dumb puzzle!
Sue has to spin the directional control really fast.
johnny and ben have to hit the "A" button really fast!

i, too, paid full price.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Wish I had left it on the shelf, July 6, 2005

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M. L. chapman - See all my reviews
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= Fun:2.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Fantastic Four (Video Game)

I bought this game hoping that it would have the same gameplay as x-men legends, which by the way is an excellent game. This game however does not deliver. I don't know if it was the horrible camera angles or boring gameplay but I just did not want to finish this game. I am returning this and anxiously awaiting X-Men Legends 2.

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