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.