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Fantastic Four
Developer: 7
Studios
Platform: All of them
Players: 2
Gameplay: Third Person Action
Reviewed: Playstation Edition
Although
smart Fanboys know that The
Incredibles was largely a rip off of the Fantastic
Four concept, FF has consistently been two steps behind
The Incredibles team. It is really going to confuse
pretensions, stupid kids.
The
Incredibles hit movie theaters 7 months before the Fantastic
Four and now the Fantastic Four game is released
months after The Incredibles game. To make things
even worse, the games are almost identical in gameplay
In
both, you get to control each of the four main characters
thorough a series of thumb cramping button mashing levels.
Each level is tailor made to meet the abilities of whichever
character you control. While playing as Reed Richards, you'll
have to solve puzzles and reach things that are far away.
As Sue Richards
you'll have to sneak past guards and appear in gratuitous
scenes in your underwear. Johnny Storm and The Thing get
equal amounts of enemies to clobber using their powers.
Fantastic
Four does have some good things going for it though.
The graphics are above average and it has a fun co-op mode
where two players can share in the button mashing. It's
probably more fun for the kids than for the adults, but
fun regardless.
Where the game
starts to lose steam is somewhere in the second hour of
playing. Once you've taken each character for a drive, the
repetition will start to set in. You'll have to punch, kick
and flame your way through surprisingly few levels because
your characters lack the freedom to do anything else. It's
like riding an interactive Fantastic Four ride where
each twist and turn is inevitable unless the ride loses
power.
On
an optimistic note, the first Spider-Man game was
a clunker but the second one was pretty good. The FF game
has more going for it from the get go. We can only hope
they make a killer sequel, hopefully at least adding four
player support.
FF fans will
be pleased to add a semi-fun, well polished game to their
collection but can wait a few months for the price to drop.
Everyone else would be better off renting it.
Like
the movie, the Fantastic Four game is okay but nothing special.
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