I've
wanted to do the game review of Spiderman Friend or Foe for a while now. It has
been on my to-do-list for months. And since Spiderman Into the Spider-verse
recently hit around theaters in the Philippines now is a good a time as any to do this
one.
I'm
also a big superhero fan so mixing Beat Em Ups and superhero characters are
always one of the best kind of beat em ups for me. Games like Captain Commando,
Captain America and the Avengers and the X-men was some of my favorites.
Spiderman
Friend or Foe is a beat em up game based on Sam Raimi's original Spiderman
trilogy and promised to be a different take on the spiderman take on the movies
and legend. A piece of the meteorite that brought the venom symbiote to earth
broke off and landed on different locations around the world and causing chaos so
Nick Fury enlist the help of Spiderman. With the unlikely help of Spidermans
most memorable enemies they are off to save the day
Sadly
as promising as the entire concept is the game fails to deliver and a lot of
the important aspect that makes fighting games fun and challenging are all but
none existent. The story feels broken and disengaging. The game is rushed out
of a released date than polishing off its obvious bugs.
The
gameplay just revolves on fighting a group of enemies that comes in three
flavors, small, medium and large and its repeated throughout all the levels
with very little in variety of their attacks. Sure they look different
depending on the stage. The fifth stage enemies are basically taken down in pretty
much the same way as the first stage ones.
The
game feels like a pointless grind. You beat up enemies to trigger a bridge so
you can advance to the next platform until you get to the boss of that stage.
And you repeat this process in every stage. Sure the enemies look different to
reflect their stages like mummies in the egypt area but that's just about it.
The
characters have some nice moves and a team up moves but it gets boring since
its only one super move. The dialogue is cheesy and limited too. The addition
of unlocking new skills doesn't help since you can practically finish the game
with the abilities you already have at the beginning of the game so upgrading
feels unnecessary. The game doesn't support online play either.
The
characters movement is a bit stiff and the character models looks ugly and
unpolished specially when you imagine this game came out after the Spiderman 2
game for the PS2 which is leaps and bounds compared to this one in terms of
graphics alone. The moves are nice but is unbalanced as Spiderman has most of
the new moves to unlock. The voice acting is your typical saturday morning cartoon
as well.
The
game is obviously geared towards little kids and even little kids like a
challenge and this game offers very little to none of it. Dying isn't a problem
since you can respawn anytime and the hidden secrets of the game aren't so
hidden either. The attack moves are dynamic but with fighting the same type of enemies again
and again it feels more of a chore than an achievement.
Overall
Spiderman Friend or Foe is a serviceable game if you don't mind beating up a
bunch of enemies for hours just for the fun of it. The game is better with a
friend to play with specially on a boring day. I'd want to give this game a
higher score but theres really nothing that hasn't been done and done better by
other games before.
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