The Amazing Spider-Man: Web of Fire is a side-scrolling action-adventure game where the players control Spider-Man through six stages as he goes up against the terrorist organization Hydra, who has taken all of New York City and its citizens as hostage by setting up generators that caused a giant electrical grid to appear over the location, and their hired hands the New Enforcers. The New Enforcers are each guarding the generators to make sure Hydra's plans go uninterrupted. The plot is explained through
newspaper-styled
cutscenes. At the end of the stages, Spider-Man must confront each member of the New Enforcers while destroying each generator in order to progress further. The
bosses are
Dragon Man,
Eel,
Thermite,
Blitz and
Super-Adaptoid.
Vanisher also appears although he is not a boss. On the main menu, the player has access to the options menu, where various settings can be changed such as controls and
difficulty level. Spider-Man can jump, punch, kick, duck, crawl, climb certain walls, shoot webs to swing on and collect web fluid to shoot web projectiles against enemies, among other actions. Spider-Man can also get assistance from fellow superhero Daredevil by rescuing him in the first stage and collecting "DD" tokens scattered through the stages. Other
items can also be picked up such as
health packs to restore energy. Spider-Man has three lives at the beginning of the game and
extra lives can be acquired along the way but once all lives are lost, the
game is over, though the player has the choice to
continue playing after dying. == Development and release ==