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Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer Impressions

I sort of walked into the Fantastic Four demo by accident. I was wandering around on the last day of Gamers Day looking at what third-party games they had set up and made eye contact with the Fantastic Four guy. Once that happened I was sort of like a deer caught in headlights.

Don't get me wrong, Fantastic Four is a solid title, very much like the previous F4. They did a decent job with graphics, have the actors' likenesses from the movie and the playing is solid, it's just that F4 is no Uncharted, or LittleBigPlanet or Pain. And it was the first game on that last day I ended up checking out.

The game will mostly follow the plot of the movie, though there will be a couple of extra missions that doesn't come from that plot line. The characters still look dead on, though this time around the developers didn't get the actors' voices to throw into the game. While I couldn't actually play the game myself, it looked fun to play. One of the things I really liked was that you can combine attacks between two different members of the team to make some pretty neat super attacks. For example, you can use Mr. Fantastic to catapult The Thing into the air and slam him back down.

The game also has up to four-player co-op. Overall, it seemed like a pretty fun game, albeit not exactly a ground-breaking one.

Experience all the incredible movie action, and beyond! Transform into any member of the Fantastic Four to fight enemies from the Fantastic Four Universe including Silver Surfer, Super Skrull and more.

Features:

* Unite and fight! Battle in 4-player co-op with easy pick up and play ability.
* Combine super powers for devastating team attacks with the new Fusion Attack System!
* Truly destructible environments: smash, wreck, wreak havoc!
* Loads of unlockables including alternate Fantastic Four costumes, historical comic covers, and more!
* Enhance your super powers: use the Sixaxis controller for the PLAYSTATION 3 or the Wii Remote for the Wii for mega boost attacks!
* Play as the Silver Surfer and ride in the Fantasticar - only on the Nintendo DS !

3:00 PM on Fri May 18 2007
By Brian Crecente
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