Customer Reviews

Spiderman: Friend or Foe

5 star:		(2)
4 star:		(7)
3 star:		(3)
2 star:		(3)
1 star:		(0)

 

 

If I was buying this game just for myself, I'd probably rate it lower. It's sort of a simpled down version of Marvel Alliance. Graphics, gameplay, and plot are all more cartoony. There are less characters, less stat tweaking, less control.

However from the perspective of a dad looking for some quality time with the 7 year old boy, it's a great game. It's simple enough that he can master it, but varied enough that I'm not bored with the gameplay. He's been particularly tickled with the variety of characters and enjoys trying out each new team mate and their powers as you unlock them.

Our 5 year old girl played it for a while and did have some fun, but eventually grew frustrated with it. Your mileage may vary, but that appears to be about the cut off.

Essentially you start off with Spiderman and a few sidekick characters. One person must play Spiderman, but you can select which sidekick to bring along with you for each mission. As you collect coins, you can buy upgrades to the character's powers and stats. In each zone (made up of 4 missions), you can unlock one or two new sidekicks. Each mission takes about 20-30 minutes to complete.

If you've got younger kids, you enjoyed the Lego Star Wars games, or Marvel Alliance, this game is probably a good choice.

The first poster was absolutely right.

First, the graphics are good but its just another game based on the same controlls that every other top down combat game is based on. I think its neat to play the villians for a change but really doesn't present anything new or novel.

If you have Ultimate Alliance or Justice League this will feel quite the same.

On the other hand, my kids love it and don't know or care about its plain-ness so that makes it a winner for me.

I got this game for [...]and I gotta say it was a lot better then the reviews I looked at. you start off as spiderman and you beat different bad guys. after you beat one then they join you. I felt the game was well orginized. You are asked to find certain things in the game and I felt they were placed well and you could find them relativly easy. One thing I hate the most about the "find the fill in the blank" on any game is how hard they are to find. This game was not that way. It was also an easy game to get into and learn right from the start. It was very refreashing to go from a hard game to learn (like mass effect, or Halo) to something that was straight forward.

I would say that there are things that could have been annoying. One was the camara was hard to deal with. To make the game easer they took out the ability to move the camara by yourself so the game does it for you and sometimes you cant see what you want to see. the second is the length. If I had payed 20-60 on this game i would have felt cheated because it is short but for the price I got it I felt I got it for a steal. Also its rating for the age is right on. They say on the box for ages 6+. It is set for that age group so I would say if you are looking for a harder game that is longer this is not for you.

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Spider-Man: Friend or Foe is good game for a linear two player beat 'em up ... its fighting system seems better than similar games, such as Marvel Ultimate Alliance, and has a wide array of combos, but that seems to be the game's primary strength. The game is unfortunately not without its flaws: the gameplay is short, linear and relatively easy - you could probably beat the game in a single 12 hour sitting ... the storyline is weird: that dome-headed Mysterio gets a hold of alien symbiont technology and tries to take over the world by creating holographic venom clones and by mind controlling other superheroes and super-villains, all of which join you as sidekicks after you meet, battle and/or free them ... the enemies are repetitive throughout the game and separated into size categories (small, medium, large, mini-boss, Marvel character boss), and don't have any proper special attacks/defenses to distinguish themselves - aside from the Marvel character bosses, of course ... the character upgrade system for your sidekick friends leaves much to be desired and many of the Marvel characters have either had their storyline changed from the comic version of themselves or are lacking in one or more core abilities during gameplay ... the static camera control prevents you from absorbing the scenery by allowing you to rotate the camera to look around ... coming from a roleplaying game standpoint, the game lacks NPCs and character interactions are minimal ... and lastly, too many of the boss fights are won by throwing objects at the super-villain ...
To summarize: Its a fun but flawed beat 'em up and worth getting once the price comes down below $20 ...

Thank you so much. This product shipped quickly, no scratches whatsoever on the disc, and was everything that the seller promised. My son loves it!!! I really appreciate this <3

I purchased this game for my 7 year old as a birthday gift based on reviews here on Amazon, I have to say this is by far the best game I have bought for the under 10 set. They play together. There is no fighting. They are actually having fun. Highly recommend it for anyone with children 10 or under. They will not be frustrated by this game and neither will you.

the plot is exciting enough, and the thought of getting to play with spiderman's worst enemies is cool, but the only thing you get to do is kill "phantoms" over...and over....and OVER! that gets tiring.after 4 levels of fighting phantoms you do get to fight in a boss mode against spiderman's enemies,but its exactly like fighting the phantoms.the graphics really stink.

This game is similar to Marvel Ultimate Alliance except the art is of a different style and some would say more simplified. You can play by yourself or team up and take on the bad guys, it's cool to also be able to play some 'bad' guys who cooperate with you to take down the real enemy. I got my used version of the game for about $11 (which includes shipping) so it's a definite buy at that price level...I'm not sure if I would want to pay more than $15 for it, however.

Action MADNESS! One of the better SPIDEY games!

I never got the hoopla over the Spiderman games that that coincided with the movie releases. Besides the web slinging around Manhattan - that game really didnt have anything else to offer. Plus, the novelty of web slinging around the city got old real fast!

I love hack & slash games, but since the invention of 3D games hit the video game realm, there really hasnt been any stand out titles or games that offered co-op play mode.

I have to say that i really enjoyed this game. It was on sale for twenty bucks and it has two player action. So you and a buddy can team up. The visuals are not groundbreaking, but i believe they were going for a specific design with this game. Much like the Ultimate Spiderman game back on the original Xbox. I'd highly recommend adding this game to your library.

This game is incredibly fun if you are younger than say, eleven. And it is fun if you like to play games like these with a younger person. I have found that if you try and play a game in Co-op with a preteen that you need to be able to either adjust the difficulty or have it be a little easier to start with. This game fills that niche. Graphics are slanted more towards the younger side and the game is just right for a smaller game fan.