Fantastic Four? Hardly. There's nothing fantastic about yet another licensed game based on a lackluster summer action flick. Jessica Alba can't act, and she sure as heck can't play, either.
At first glance, the game has potential. A straight-up brawler that puts players in the shoes of all four titular characters seems like a sure bet for mindless destruction. Unfortunately, the various gimmicks of the superheroes rarely come into play, and when they do, the execution is very poorly done. The Invisible Woman's levels, in particular, serve as nothing more than a ridiculously convenient excuse for the developers to throw in contemptible filler stealth levels.
Though the action can be exciting at times once things heat up, the numerous load times really break up the experience. Just as you're getting into the game, kicking the living daylights out of baddies, you'll be kicked into a load screen. Lastly, painfully simplistic hacking minigames prove once more that the concept of hacking computers in video games is good on paper but utterly terrible in practice.
Like the film it's based upon, the game looks and sounds decent, but a fundamental lack of substance keeps this from being any more than an unfulfilling summer fluff piece.
-George
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