Iron Man has a suit of armor. Thor has a magical hammer. The Guardians of the Galaxy have huge egos. In their first video game adventure, the aptly titled Marvel’s’ Guardians of the Galaxy, the misfit superhero team’s cockiness is on full display. They quip their way through combat, as if every battle is a company softball game. They bicker with one another over who’s better at killing sentient gelatin cubes. At the center of it all is Star-Lord, who’s given the most difficult task a leader could face: Team management. Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy is a clever superhero game that ditches genre expectations in favor of gameplay mechanics that better suit its oddball squad. The “solo team play” is a well-executed riff on Mass Effect that works both in and out of combat. An unpolished, bug-ridden package drags the team down, but Guardians fans will be delighted by how much detail the game packs into its story. On paper, Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy is a tough sell. A Guardians game...
Impactful decisions; Smart team directing; Deep story; Well-developed characters; Great use of '80s tunes;
Weak Star-Lord combat; Overabundance of jokes; Lots of bugs at launch;