Square Enix and Eidos Montreal have announced Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy, a new video game in which players take on the role of Star Lord and command a team of Guardians. Much like Square’s Avengers game, it’s easy to think that Guardians of the Galaxy would be a co-op multiplayer game, with each player controlling the likes of Star Lord, Drax, Gamora, Groot, or Rocket Raccoon. But instead, Guardians of the Galaxy is a single player game. We spoke to Eidos Montreal to find out why.
Talking to IGN, Guardians of the Galaxy’s Senior Creative Director, Jean-François Dugas, said “We started to discuss different opportunities like multiplayer or co-op. But we were really looking at what Guardians of the Galaxy is, and it’s all about those characters. It’s all about colourful personalities clashing with each other, and sometimes getting along. It’s a mix of all these things, their qualities, their flaws. And we thought ‘It would be freaking awesome if you could be one of the Guardians, and put you at the centre of that to be surrounded by those characters’. And this is how it came to be.”
Eidos Montreal’s desire to put one character at the centre of the game and have those personality-filled characters revolve around them led to a system in which Star Lord acts as the leader of the team, and can issue orders to characterful, AI controlled teammates. Dugas notes, though, that Star Lord is the ‘so-called leader’, and so the other Guardians don’t necessarily always respect him.
[widget path="global/article/imagegallery" parameters="slug=guardians-of-the-galaxy-gameplay-square-enix-e3-2021&captions=true"]“You’re not leading them officially, and sometimes the Guardians will make decisions on their own,” he explained. “But we talk about this kind of ecosystem in which [the other Guardians] can be characters on their own, make their own decisions, have their own reactions. And you, as the so-called leader, as the player, decide how to react to those things. We thought the purpose of that was really really exciting, so we dived into that to explore what it would mean for the game.”
And so that’s why Guardians of the Galaxy is a single-player action game where you play as Star Lord, rather than a co-op game with a choice of heroes.
Guardians of the Galaxy was announced at Square Enix presents, a show that’s part of the larger E3 2021 event. For everything gaming-related this month, be sure to check out IGN’s Summer of Gaming, where we’ll be covering every announcement and reveal from across every show, from E3’s official event and beyond.
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[poilib element="accentDivider"]Matt Purslow is IGN's UK News and Entertainment Writer.
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