Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy seemingly understands its source material better than the majority of adaptations. That goes for any adaptation, Marvel or otherwise, regardless of the medium. These aren’t perfect recreations of any existing version of these characters; it’s a new one-shot motion comic with interactive bits and an incredibly large creative team. When talking about the best video games of 2021, it would be remiss to not include it among the top contenders.
The video game from Eidos-Montreal and Square Enix lifts all of the Guardians of the Galaxy’s greatest hits for its own game-based smoothie, but the general layout remains the same: Star-Lord, Gamora, Drax, Rocket, and Groot unintentionally kick off a terrible galaxy-wide catastrophe only to then realize they are also the only ones capable of stopping it. With a little help, of course, and sometimes far, far bigger…
