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.
