With an upcoming movie this summer and a recent addition to the roster of , it’s clear that Marvel’s first family, the Fantastic Four, is coming back into the spotlight after being sidelined for decades.
While there have been films to bring the iconic superhero group to the public’s attention, there hasn’t been a well-received video game attempt to play as the Fantastic Four in over twenty years.
Looking at the recent success of Insomniac Games' player superhero titles, it seems like the perfect time to make a Fantastic Four video game.
and its sequels have proven that a single-player superhero experience works extremely well, especially when it’s driven by a well-written story in a self-contained universe. The Fantastic Four are the perfect group to headline their own single-player video game, as they have decades of comic storylines to adapt.
With an iconic supervillain to face and four unique power sets for developers to utilize, there's so much to run with. Despite being one of the first successful superhero groups published by Marvel Comics, the Fantastic Four have been strangely absent from popular culture in the last decade.