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this game is pure garbage

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 9
Date: August 10, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I aint got nothin to say but graphics garbage, gameplay garbage, sound garbage. There's no way anyone can say this game 5 stars. I use the games case for a coaster. Its garbage.

Less than Fantastic

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 6
Date: July 11, 2005
Author: Amazon User

All I have to say is this - Waste of Time.
Considering this game is made by the same people that created X-Men Lengends, this game was a grave disappointment. The characters were cool enough to control, but I found the game play to be terrible.

The cameras were set-up so poorly. They were designed so you could orient yourself around the character - good luck.
At one point during the Moleman mission, the game was so poorly set-up that going down a simple tunnel can take several minutes (for those of you with the patience to get this far, know what I'm talking about)

There are so many glitches, like backpacks just floating around the streets, boulders floating aimlessly over your head, and various other annomolies which I'm sure were not intentional.

And the co-op game play, which I was really looking forward to was not worth the effort. You only get to play as 2 of the 4 characters at a time, so which ever controller you're holding, you're stuck with that character. And because you are limited to the distance your characters can be from one another, if one of you is a one and and the other opposite, well, all and all, you're gonne get screwed - so lets just say it was easier playing in single-player. (But in single-player, you're looking from so low on the ground, good luck to seeing what is above and ahead of you.)

All-in-all, I had so many problems with this game, lets just say I returned it to the video store and rented a Lord of the Rings game instead, which, by the way, did not have such a poor set up that missions had to be played more than once.

BLAHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 8
Date: July 16, 2005
Author: Amazon User

There are many, many things (oh, where to start) that make this game horrible. First, (hmmmm, I have to collect my thoughts) this entire game is button mashing. You can beat the game just hitting square, square, square. Except for the boring little mini-games where you just hit, and Im not joking here, X as fast as you can.

People praise the fact that you can switch between two characters, but I never saw a need for this, unless I needed one character to do one of those stupid pointless puzzles. But really I would just switch between characters because I got tired of using the Thing and wanted to use Mr. Fantastic.

The graphics are incredibly horrible and choppy. The game is an eyesore. Please, please, please dont buy this game. Its for your own good.

Save your money the new X-men game is here

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 7
Date: September 14, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This was by far the worst game I've ever bought. If you don't believe me please just rent it and see for yourself. I loved the comic as a kid and though the movie wasn't great it was Citizen Cane compared to this pile. The character movement was difficult the missions were repeative and the game was just generally boring. Seems like they rushed this game out just for the movie.

FANTASTIC...FaNtAsY?

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 4
Date: July 15, 2005
Author: Amazon User

You are on the final level of the game. You have mummies, dogs, dinoaurs, and Dr. Doom all hitting you, leaving no space to move a finger. You try jumping but they just keep attacking you. You have 50% health left, and the puzzle is only one fourths of thw way done. A mummy attacks you with his light saber. "Game Over". That is all I could remember while playing this game. I think that this is one of those one button games. I used the square button more than I used the joysticks. This game is good for those who have little ones, but not for over the age of 13. Rental suggested, buying not reccomended.

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1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: January 04, 2006
Author: Amazon User

The graphics seem dated and rushed. The gameplay was laborious and after 30 minutes I simply could not play anymore as it seemed I was wasting my time. I was playing with two player option, but the second player wound up always having to be a robot. The second stage was having each character escape from the hospital and fight off robots and solve puzzles to open doors; I don't rememeber any of that in the movie. I would not recommend.

Not too Fantastic at all

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 4 / 6
Date: January 10, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Activision's past track record of Marvel Comic to film games has been quite great the past few years (X-Men Legends, Spider-Man 2, etc.) which leads me to wonder what went wrong with Fantastic Four. The movie was, well, lacking to say the least, but there was so much potential with the game that was wasted. Playing as Mr. Fantastic, Invisible Woman, the Thing, and the Human Torch, you play in some nicely designed and somewhat destructable levels that are taken from the movie, as well as some levels and bosses included here for fans of the comic series. However, this is what absolutely kills Fantastic Four; it's a button mashing beat 'em up that doesn't offer anything new and becomes real repetitive real quickly. There are some mini-games available depending on who you play as, but there's not enough of them, and the voice acting during the cut-scenes is surprisingly bad. The graphics are decent enough, and the controls won't really matter because Fantastic Four is a pure button masher plain and simple. Co-op mode is a bit fun, but the ball was really dropped because there could have been some great multiplayer modes that would have spiced things up a bit. All in all, this is worth a look if you're a fan of the FF or for simple and easy beat 'em up's, but for all others this is better left on the shelf, and if you're craving a really good beat 'em up, check out the Warriors.

Don't believe the hype

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 3 / 9
Date: July 06, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This is not a great game, it's not a good game, it's mediocre.
It is repetitive (to the nth degree), hard to understand what is required of the gamer, and the camera angles are hard to work with at times.
I spent too much money on this game, I read the first and only Amazon review and went out and bought it new. The previous reviewer is either an idiot or he's making money somehow.
Don't buy the game, rent it first and save some dough.

Horrible Horrible Horrible.....

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 6 / 8
Date: November 26, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This game is absolutely boring. The reason why I gave it two stars overall is because there is so many bugs and glitches, and long loading times. The graphics are pretty good but you don't get to choose who you want to be. Also, why is this only two players????? It's called fantastic four not fantastic two. Also, for some reason this game always gives me a huge headace when playing the game. I tried giving it a chance but I gave up. PLEASE don't waste your money on this crappy game.

PLEASE!!!

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: March 23, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Here's another superhero game that has nice graphics, but game play really sucks! First off, the game is a button masher without any rhyme or reason as to which buttons execute what powers; not smooth and controlled like in X-MEN LEGENDS/MARVEL ULTIMATE ALLIANCE/JUSTICE LEAGUE HEROES games. It felt like I was going to break my controller! And it seemed as though the uptake was really slow, you know you press the punch/attack button and there seemed to be a slight delay, so you end up pressing buttons in an absolute frenzy trying to get the characters to respond quicker. Very frustrating!

The other problem is the game's camera, which likes to zoom in on irrelevant things for no reason at all. Also, some areas are really dark and there are small cracks that you can fall through, maybe this is a bug in the game, but not good.

Another thing is that the box claims that you play as a team, but most of the missions you are exploring either by yourself or in pairs and you don't get to choose who you want to be.

If you really want to play a fun game as the Fantastic Four get MARVEL UTLIMATE ALLIANCE.

I understand the sequel to the FANTASTIC FOUR movie will be in theaters soon. If the powers that be were smart, they would've chosen either Ravensoftware or Snowblind studios(makers of X-MEN LEGENDS/MARVEL UTLITMATE ALLIANCE and JUSTICE LEAGUE HEROES respectively) to create the next game. If not, they better insist that Activision follow their lead (ironically, Ravensoftware falls under the Activision umbrella but I think that Activision is the distributor and not the maker of the X-MEN/MARVEL games).

Perhaps this is actually Marvel's responsibility. They should really pay attention to customer reviews and find gaming companies that create fun and enjoyable games, rather than more crap like this. By not doing so, Marvel is really alienating their fan base.

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