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Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer ps3 Game Reviews
Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer
Critic Score
Metascore: 49 Metascore out of 100
User Score  
5.5 out of 10
based on 10 reviews
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Marvel’s first family of Super Heroes face its greatest challenge yet as the enigmatic, intergalactic herald, The Silver Surfer, comes to Earth to prepare it for destruction. Transform into any member of the Fantastic Four to fight enemies from the Fantastic Four Universe including Silver Surfer, Super Skrull and more. 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 mega boost attacks. [2K Games]

PUBLISHER: 2K Games
DEVELOPER: Visual Concepts
GENRE(S): Third-Person Action, Adventure
PLAYERS: 4
ESRB RATING: T (Teen)
RELEASE DATE: June 15, 2007

What The Critics Said

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64
Amped IGO
Still, it’s a solid rental and a good way to spend some time having a bit of fun. If you really want to kick ass as the Fantastic 4, go play Marvel: Ultimate Alliance.
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54
IGN
The bottom line is you never feel like you're the Fantastic 4. Instead, you're a big orange tank and three kick boxers who know some magic tricks.
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53
GameTrailers
Fantastic Four isn’t bad in the sense that it’s incredibly buggy or overly frustrating. It’s just mind-numbingly mundane. And the thinly veiled attempts at character customization aren’t enough to make the game any less boring.
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50
Game Informer
The only saving grace that this game has is its combat mechanic. By no means is it good, but it’s competent, and successful in making you feel like you clocked someone pretty hard. If you have some friends over, you can delve into four-player co-op. However, like a friend who picks out a crappy movie, there’s a good chance that your buddies will mock you for this spirit-crushing game for the remainder of your days.
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50
GameSpot
There's nothing inherently broken with the game, and until it fizzles out at the end the story's not bad, but the gameplay is so contrived and repetitive that it's unlikely anyone will garner much enjoyment from the game.
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46
Cheat Code Central
The bland environments, boring stages, repetitive enemies, and easily exhausted powers make the Fantastic Four feel more like a fantastic chore or just a fantastic bore.
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45
1UP
Despite an entire review's worth of problems, Fantastic Four isn't a complete loss. It has some nice-looking effects ("flaming on," specifically), a decent joke or two, and some nice extras to unlock (old Fantastic Four comic covers, alternate costumes, etc.), but it's just not compelling in any of the basic areas it needs to be.
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40
Game Almighty
Technically, it’s fairly solid – the controls work and it looks and sounds OK, but there’s zero fun here.
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40
Playstation 3 Advanced
Fantastic Four fanatics apply only because there isn’t much in this game that will provide endless hours of fun.
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30
PALGN
The only thing fantastic about Rise of the Silver Surfer is the record time you'll make travelling to the store to return it.
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What Our Users Said

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