"Fantastic Four" received overwhelmingly negative reviews. Both "IGN" and "Next Generation" criticized the poor control and rough sprites, and "GameSpot" and "Next Generation" both found the music completely failed to fit in with the game. "Next Generation" stated that "Like the worst of Acclaim's licensed games for the last eight years, this one takes a venerable piece of pop-culture property, in this case Stan Lee's "Fantastic 4", and reduces it to dismal side-scrolling action – using 'action' in the loosest sense of the word."