You're also asked to collect 'secrets' throughout the game to unlock multiplayer arenas, but we found most of them simply by walking where the game told us to. Whether we were in Tokyo, Cairo, Nepal, Transylvania, or a tropical island, we killed enemies to make bridges appear. The good news is, if you like walking across bridges, then Spider-Man: Friend or Foe is the game for you. Even the structure of each level is exactly the same. And despite your travels to exotic locales like Nepal, Tokyo and Cairo, the entire game feels the same. And there's no difficulty setting, so you're stuck with the level of challenge the game offers, which is shockingly little. From level-to-level, their look changes to match the environment, but - for the most part - they don't seem to get much smarter, aggressive or powerful. Throughout the game, they behave basically the same, with small differences as the levels progress. There are three types of basic enemies: small, medium and large. It'll be Spider-Man's job to defeat them, recruit them, and fight along side them to find the mastermind.īut despite the game's glossy coating and promise of a lively team-based brawling experience, it becomes clear very early on that Spider-Man: Friend or Foe is little more than a mindless churn. Someone, it turns out, is using symbiote-soaked meteorite shards to control the minds of supervillains, who are, in turn, wreaking all manner of havoc. Nick Fury of S.H.I.E.L.D and brought aboard a 'helicarrier' for a quick mission briefing. At the beginning of the game, Spidey is drafted by Col. But what begins as an interesting premise turns out to be the most ordinary of gaming experiences, and Spider-Man: Friend or Foe very early on proves itself to be its own worst enemy. The action-adventure brawler, developed by Next Level Games and published by Activision, started out with a unique idea - that Spidey would battle a horde of mysterious baddies with the help of his sworn Marvel-universe enemies.

'Do you think this ruins the fun, with us always winning?' the animated Webcrawler asked no one in particular as we stared at the screen in glazed-over boredom. It was after a particularly tedious battle, somewhere in the first stage of the first level of Spider-Man: Friend or Foe, when poor Spidey himself summed up his own videogame experience better than we ever could.

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