Spider-Man: Friend or Foe

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Developer(s) Next Level Games (Xbox 360, Wii, PlayStation 2)
Artificial Mind And Movement (Nintendo DS, PlayStation Portable)
Beenox (Microsoft Windows)
Publisher(s) Activision
Distributor(s) Columbia Pictures
Marvel Entertainment
Composer(s) James L. Venable
Platforms Microsoft Windows
Nintendo DS
PlayStation 2
PlayStation Portable
Wii
Xbox 360
Release date(s)
    Genre(s) Action-adventure, beat 'em up, platform
    Mode(s) Single-player, multiplayer

    Spider-Man: Friend or Foe is a Spider-Man video game based on the comic book series and Spider-Man movies. The game was released on October 2, 2007.[1]

    Spider-Man: Friend or Foe was originally announced via a promotional page on the back of the Spider-Man 3 video game instruction booklet. The teaser stated that the game would be a "A new twist on the legend. A new take on the movies." The game's website shows a few screenshots of the game and the Green Goblin makes an appearance.[1] The game has a very different engine and style as compared to the previous official film tie-ins.

    According to the company report, Spider-Man: Friend or Foe is a unique take on the media franchise. Inspired by the movies Spider-Man, Spider-Man 2, and Spider-Man 3, this action/adventure beat 'em up game reinterprets big-screen moments and battles with a humorous twist. Players team up with famous heroes from the Marvel Comics universe to combat villains and then convert them to sidekicks after defeating them in epic boss battles.[2] The game includes a co-op multiplayer mode, as Spider-Man or a sidekick, in locations around the globe, including Tokyo, Egypt, and Nepal.[3]

    Spider-Man: Friend or Foe, along with most other games published by Activision that had used the Marvel licence, was de-listed and removed from all digital storefronts on January 1, 2014.[4][5]

    Plot

    In an opening cutscene, Spider-Man finds himself beset by his enemies from the movies: Green Goblin, Doctor Octopus, Sandman, and Venom. He gains help from New Goblin as he combats the villains. All six characters suddenly find themselves targeted by an enemy force and one-by-one, the villains begin disappearing. Meanwhile, Spider-Man is rescued by Nick Fury of S.H.I.E.L.D., who informs him that the meteor which brought the Venom symbiote to Earth had broken up in the Earth's atmosphere and five more pieces had landed in numerous locations across the globe. Fury sends Spider-Man to retrieve the shards of meteors. Spider-Man quickly finds that the villains who attacked him and several more of his foes, including Rhino and Scorpion, have been placed under mind control of a mysterious villain. The villain also creates and controls holographic/symbiote combination foot soldiers called P.H.A.N.T.O.M.s (short for Perpetual Holographic Avatar Nano-Tech Offensive Monsters). As Spider-Man fights his enemies one-by-one and rescues them from the mind control, they promise to aid him in finding the villain responsible. As Spider-Man progresses, he obtains more allies such as Black Cat, Iron Fist, Silver Sable, Prowler, Lizard (not portrayed as a villain), and Blade. He discovers that the evil genius is Mysterio (whom Venom refers to as "bubbleman"), who intends to use his army to take over the world, using each shard of the meteor to make them stronger. Spider-Man decides to temporarily don the Black Suit for the final battle. Ultimately, Spider-Man defeats him and turns the shards over to Fury, who decides to analyze them and refers to the study as "Project Carnage"although the character himself is not featured, except in the PSP version. Even though she does not appear in the game, Madame Web is mentioned when the computer says she is here for Nick's 4:00 meeting.[6]

    Characters

    Playable

    Spider-Man

    Silver Sable. Only in Xbox 360, Wii and PC

    Prowler

    Black Cat

    Doc Ock

    Green Goblin

    Scorpion

    Iron Fist

    Rhino

    Lizard

    Sandman

    Blade

    Venom

    New Goblin

    Electro. Only in PSP

    Carnage. Only in PSP

    Unplayable

    Nick Fury

    Mysterio

    Development

    Spider-Man: Friend or Foe was developed by three different companies. The Wii, Xbox 360, and PlayStation 2 versions were created by Next Level Games. Beenox developed the Windows edition. Artificial Mind And Movement developed the Nintendo DS and PlayStation Portable versions of the game.[7][8]

    Reception

    Reception
    Aggregate scores
    Aggregator Score
    GameRankings (PS2) 63.64%[9]
    (Wii) 61.52%[10]
    (PSP) 60.80%[11]
    (X360) 60.35%[12]
    (PC) 59.62%[13]
    (DS) 55.04%[14]
    Metacritic (PS2) 62/100[15]
    (X360) 60/100[16]
    (Wii) 59/100[17]
    (PSP) 58/100[18]
    (PC) 57/100[19]
    (DS) 55/100[20]
    Review scores
    Publication Score
    Eurogamer 3/10[21]
    Game Informer 4.5/10[22]
    GamePro 3.5/5 stars[23]
    Game Revolution (X360) C[24]
    (Wii) C−[25]
    GameSpot 7/10[26][27][28]
    GameSpy (X360 & Wii) 4/5 stars[29]
    (DS) 2/5 stars[30]
    GameTrailers 5.8/10[31]
    GameZone (PS2) 7.9/10[32]
    (DS) 7.5/10[33]
    (PC) 7.1/10[6]
    (PSP) 6.9/10[34]
    (Wii) 6.5/10[35]
    (X360) 6.4/10[36]
    IGN 4.9/10[37][38]
    OXM 6/10[39]

    GameRankings and Metacritic gave it a score of 55.04% and 55 out of 100 for the DS version,[14][20] 59.62% and 57 out of 100 for the PC version,[13][19] 63.64% and 62 out of 100 for the PlayStation 2 version,[9][15] 60.80% and 58 out of 100 for the PSP version,[11][18] 60.35% and 60 out of 100 for the Xbox 360 version,[12][16] and 61.52% and 59 out of 100 for the Wii version.[10][17] IGN gave the game a score of 4.9 out of ten, complaining of how incredibly easy and repetitive the game is.[37][38]

    References

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