Overview:
A third person action game starring the Guardians of the Galaxy. The bit I played had you taking the role of Peter Quill/Star-Lord as him and the bunch have to do missions to find loot or pay off their debts. You’ll get plenty of time to interact with your fellow groupmates as you traverse the galaxy with plenty of upgrades and unlockables to bide the time. Every now and then you’ll get to pilot your ship but those are few and far between.
Visuals:
Hot diggity dog does this game look fantastic. The environments are vibrant and unique with each one of them giving sweeping vistas complete with weather effects or just life that’ll make you stop and look around. The character models also look terrific as well with all of them looking extremely believable. The animations can be a little stilted or showing too much teeth, but that’s a small nitpick. The flashback scenes are also lovingly done but I just feel it’s a orgy of evidence to be like “Look! It’s the 1980s!!” that so many pieces of media do when trying to establish a time period.
Audio:
You will get a TON of dialog between the Guardians. So much so that there is just too much to keep up with that you don’t know which thread to follow. Not all of it lands but that’s a small portion of it. The banter between them is very context sensitive so they’ll be ridiculing you every chance you get so you better not take it personally. Like the visuals, the 1980s soundtrack is very front and center with none of it becoming too repetitive but it does wear thin after a while. It’s not the game’s fault since that’s how Marvel has been posing the GotG crew for a while.
Completion:
It seems like there really is so much to do in this game. I completed chapter 4 where I was trying to pose Rocket as a world ending being but had to escape the broker when shit went south. The fights are pretty grandiose and screen filling with bosses having multiple phases. All the while this is going on your team is just quipping away at everything. It truly is overwhelming for me. I may come back to it but I think I got my fill for the time being.
