Doctor Doom has developed a device that transports the Fantastic Four to various locations to do battle with various monsters and supervillains.

Fantastic assembles a time machine that allows him to transport the team to Doom's tiny kingdom for a final battle.

[1] Some enemies will leave behind icons that give the player an extra life, or restore their health or Force Power.

At the end of each level, there is a supervillain to defeat: Mole Man, Super-Skrull, Attuma, Sub-Mariner, Psycho-Man, or Doctor Doom.

[12][8] Next Generation said, "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.

[7] GamePro's brief review criticized that "the character animation is stiff, the sound effects are campy, and the gameplay quickly becomes repetitive as waves of enemies attack in predictable patterns.