
The rest of the Guardians are also treated with reverence, with the game digging deep into their pasts and drudging up a cache of powerful character moments. We see his fears, doubts, wants and needs, and it all excellently seeps into the overarching narrative. The game cleverly dives deep into the character, personifying him in a way we haven’t seen in previous incarnations.

Star-Lord serves as the anchor, with Jon McClaren delivering a memorable and powerful performance.

This is thanks to excellent writing, clever story beats, great performances, and an excellent cast of primary and secondary characters.

Instead, Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy blends humor and tragedy together to tell a powerfully-compelling tale that knows how to tickle the funny bone and tug at the heartstrings. Based on trailers, you’d be forgiven thinking Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy’s plot would be a jovial affair in the same vein as the MCU films. Seeking fame, the group breaks Galactic Law to travel into the Quarantine Zone, the final battle of the Galactic War, which sets of a series of events that drags them into a perilous journey with the fate of the Galaxy at stake. Star-Lord, leader of the recently formed Guardians of the Galaxy. Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy takes place in its own timeline and picks up a few years after a massive galactic war between the Resistance (an amalgamation of different worlds and peoples) and the Chitauri. Can the band of misfits sync up and successfully save the Galaxy or is this iteration of the Guardians doomed to fail? Now months on from that initial reveal, Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy has finally landed. So when Square Enix announced Eidos Montreal’s Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy, many were skeptical due to controversial designs, the lack of playable characters outside of Star-Lord, the MCU-like vibe of the released trailers and the general reception to Square Enix’s last-published Marvel game, Marvel’s Avengers.

Team Ninja’s Marvel’s Ultimate Alliance 3: The Black Order received average scores and Crystal Dynamic’s Marvel’s Avengers was widely panned. While Insomniac Games managed to deliver two stellar Spider-Man games, other developers and publishers haven’t faired as well. Marvel’s attempt at breaking through in the games industry has been mixed.
