Fortunately, Eidos-Montréal made the right call here - and it’s an inspired one at that.
A Guardians game where you can only play as Star-Lord while issuing commands to seemingly more fun heroes like Rocket Raccoon and Groot? The fact that it’s a single-player game with no co-op play sounds like a misstep at first glance. On paper, Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy is a tough sell. 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. The “solo team play” is a well-executed riff on Mass Effect that works both in and out of combat. 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. At the center of it all is Star-Lord, who’s given the most difficult task a leader could face: Team management. They bicker with one another over who’s better at killing sentient gelatin cubes. They quip their way through combat, as if every battle is a company softball game. 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.
