Pros: It's over quickly
Cons: Repetitive, Bad dialogue, F4 powers are vaguely used, No online, Bad visuals
The bottom line: Even fans of the film or Marvel fans will have a hard time enjoying it. Everyone else, stay away
I've seen mixed reviews so far of the fantastic four:rise of the silver surfer movie, which is more than I can say for the game, because frankly, I don't think anyone would disagree with me when I say this game is awful. Than again, could I expect much less from a movie game? Quite honestly, no.

The story this time is the Invisible Women and Mr. Fantastic are set to be happily wedded when the silver surfer and Dr. Doom show their ugly fangs and interrupt the ordeal. I had trouble conjuring up even that small sentence because the story is so conveluted it's difficult to follow along with.

I was hoping that if the game is bad, the least the developers could have done was half-decent graphics. I'm sad to say my prayers were not answered. Not only does the game look last generation, they're just plain bad. Facial animations look leagues beyond their real life counter-parts. The only thing that comes close to passable are the gloss effects off the silver surfer and the fiery glow off the human torch, which isn't saying much for obvious reasons.

The environments aren't winning any ribbons either. Be prepared to walk through the same ugly corridor or tunnel, beating up the same bad guys no less, each level. They try to mix it up with a few park benches here, a couple cars here, but all that does is add insult to injury.

Fantastic Four ROTSS plays out like a familiar, dull and extremely repetitive beat-em-up. Throughout the course of the game you're pressing one button a few times and moving on to the next room. On the rare occasions you get a "chase" mission featuring the human torch and the Silver Surfer that gives you a nice sense of speed but gets old very quick. The missions are just as clever, they usually have you doing such dangerous tasks like pressing a switch so that you can activate an elevator.

After each of the very short six levels, you are given the chance to power up one of your characters. After a while though, I found myself not even bothering because it takes only a few hits to destroy enemies from the start anyway.

None of the cast lends their voice to the game. They probably took one look at the script and drove off. 2K than poked their head out the door, called in someone from the street and gave them ten bucks to write and to do the voice overs. If the fantastic four were as smart as they were in the game, I'd say we'd be in serious trouble. Every line is an idiotic statement, "Look at that switch, I wonder if it can be used for something?" and I was thinking "Look at that hammer, I wonder if it can be used for something?". Aside from the voices, the music is actually good.

The enemies in the game are weird and out of place. You fight everything from zombie robots to Gorillas. I haven't seen the movie yet, but I'm curious to know where Gorillas fit into the mix. After a few rooms of enemies your introduced to an even more random boss accompanied by a regenerating wave of thugs. The bosses have the same attack mechanic making it laughably simplistic to follow their routine and kill it.

Besides the repetitiveness, the biggest problem with fantastic four are the fact that the powers are never fully utilized. Sure, the human torch can spray fire at his enemies, the thing can pick up large, actually, objects period. Invisible woman can turn invisible and Mr.Fantastic can...stretch. These all sound like great powers in theory, instead Mr.Fantastic can hit buttons at a seemingly unreachable height, rarely ever will you use Invisible womans invisibility to sneak past enemies or lasers. The game forces you to use them on some rare instances and then never motivates you to use them again. The human torch and the thing come close to being useful characters, The thing can hurl his enemies off platforms and toss objects, the human torch can fly and do a weak fire attack.

The game is relatively short as well (The only good move they made) being roughly five to six hours, if that. There's no reason to come back to this game,the two difficulty levels are nearly indistinguashable but if you have to, there is co-op for up to three other people, (good luck convincing them to play another game with you) No online multiplayer however.

Another annoying element to the game is the "super power meter", after using certain attacks exclusive to a character it goes down very fast. For example, if I need to burn something and I use the human torch, the more fire I use the longer the meter goes down, the only problem is, sometimes it's essential to use one of the characters powers, but the meter is empty, so you're stuck waiting around for the meter to fill up (which is equally slow). The same rule applies to deaths, often times one member of your team will die because of a lazer or other object that isn't a foe so you're stuck waiting, twiddling your thumbs for that character to come back to life.

I'm sick of developers taking advantage of a popular movie and turning it into a mediocre, (in this case, worse) games. This is probably the worst movie game I've played this year, stay away from it, and all movie games that come out right before a Disney flick is released!