Video Game Review: Spider-Man: Friend or Foe

In Spider-Man: Friend or Foe you can not only take on the world as the wacky web slinger but as one of his enemies as well! This game puts a weird twist on all the other Spider-Man games with the ability to use your defeated enemies as allies in defeating the evil forces that you run into during the game. Which leads to the question; "If all the enemies are your friends, then who are you supposed to defeat?"

When you first start off in Spider-Man: Friend or Foe, you have to through the tedious task of completing the tutorial, which in every Spider-Man game is only somewhat useful. After learning your web slinging abilities and how to jump and wall climb you begin to fight your way through Spider-Man's arch enemies and their legions of comically retarded sidekicks.

As stated above when you beat your enemies, (the big ones not the minions) they become your ally and will fight alongside of you and they help increase your attacks by giving you new combos that require the use of an ally, but mostly all of the enemy characters have strikingly similar moves and it gets boring using the computer enemies as your allies at least for me. The upside of having an ally in the game is that you can Co-Op with a friend, eliminating the computer errors but opening the gameplay up to human errors, but as long as you play with a friend you know has some skills you should be fine.

The gameplay throughout the game was seemed so repetitive that it felt like you were fighting the same enemies over and over again just in different locations and the enemies are a different colors (applies to the minions). The main bosses are all unique characters from the movies and comics. The places that you fight in around the world are some of the same tired played out places that you've seen in other games such locations as: Tokyo, in jungles, Ancient Egypt and of course New York. There are various missions that you have to accomplish to progress in the story line of the game which include finding DNA strands among other objectives. All the tasks in the game are easy to understand and accomplish without too much actual trying.

The overall look of the game is missing some of the quality that the other Spider-Man games had, the graphics are just OK and they are more cartoonish and the dialogue in the game is horrible, except for some of the one-liners Spider-Man gets out, but even those get extremely annoying after you hear them said twenty times in a row. Overall the game was enjoyable to play and it is an easy way to boost up your gamerscore if you're looking for a quick boost. The achievements in Spider-Man: Friend or Foe are so easy, but then again you have to remember that this game was intended for children, hence the ESRB rating of "E".

While playing Spider-Man: Friend or Foe I did find it enjoyable, however I believe that it was not on par with the rest of the Spider-Man games and in my opinion in the movies keep reflecting the games, the Spider-Man video game fans are going to start to look for other games to play, basing a game on a movie is not always a good idea and with Spider-Man: Friend or Foe I believe they wanted it to be more, but sadly it just isn't what everyone was expecting.