


Friend or Foe is more akin to a 3-D Double Dragon, Streets of Rage or Fatal Fury, where the controls are simple, the button mashing is frantic, and the game is devoid of most role-playing elements. In fact, it surprised us all by doing neither. When Spider-Man: Friend or Foe was announced, it was expected that the game would be following either the Spider-Man movie franchise or going withthe MUA gameplay style. Marvel Ultimate Alliance and the X-Men Legends games were equally as popular, following the Diablo style of hack N’ slash action RPG’ing. It’s rare that a licensed series has that level of consistency in quality. All their Spider-Man titles, including the movie tie-ins have received praise from gamers and journalists alike.

Activision has had a pretty good run with Marvel titles.
