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Fantasy Violence: GamerDad found lots of bashing, smashing, flaming on, and Clobbering Times. While grownups may disregard the super-hero-lite that is the Fantastic Four movie series, tweens and early teens love it. Why? It doesn't take itself too seriously and packs in a whole lot of special effects and coolness. So, of course they'll want the game too. All four characters are playable so you can Flame On, enjoy some Clobbering Time, or run around pretending you're Jessica Alba (her videogame counterpart is actually a better actor that the real thing!) - with four controllers and 3 friends or siblings, you can portray the entire team! Or you can have the computer control three as you switch between team members. But alas, you can't be the Silver Surfer and that's just... a shame. The game plays like a simpler version of Marvel: Ultimate Alliance meaning, you look down on your character and press attack buttons to destroy waves of robots, Skrulls, and other bad guys only barely related to the film. In fact, while he's mentioned, the newly changed-into-a-cloud bad guy Galactus doesn't appear in the game at all. Comic fans will like seeing those Skrulls and even Terrax the Tamer (along with Doom and the Surfer as bad guys) One thing unnoticed by most reviews out there is that the action here is simple enough for children too young for the aforementioned Marvel game (that game is pretty dark). The Wii version uses the Wii remote to activate powers, and my kids enjoyed waggling the remote to bash activate their characters powers.  
It's rare to find a combat oriented action game that's playable by small children but the action is strictly push button/bash bad guy and there's nothing really clever to inspire young minds. Just the same button mashing over and over again for roughly 8 hours.
Other Platforms: Xbox 360: Better graphics, isometric perspective. PS3: Better graphics, isometric perspective. PS2: Top down graphics - different company behind it but not better or worse. Wii: Top down graphics and endless waggling of controllers DS: Not reviewed here, but the action is similar as is the quality. This review edited by Michael Anderson Comments? Chat about it in our forums! Format For Printing | Tell A Friend | Digg | Slashdot | del.icio.us | Buy This Game Home > Review Archive > Video Games > Results: Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer |
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