Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy Makes a Fun Change to Star-Lord's Origin Story

In a new developer deep-dive for Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy Eidos-Montreal senior audio director, Steve Szczepkowski revealed just how integral music is incorporated into Guardians of the Galaxy. Rather than just a soundtrack, music will also factor into combat as well as Star-Lord’s backstory.

In a twist on Peter Quill’s backstory, Eidos-Montreal revealed that the name Star-Lord is taken from Peter’s favorite band growing up, and not some name he picked up because it sounds cool.

But instead of just letting the backstory be just that, Szczepkowski actually served as a frontman for the fictional Star-Lord band and recorded an entire in-galaxy album. You’ll be able to hear Szczepkowski’s original album as the band Star-Lord in the game.

Along with the Star-Lord album and full, orchestral score, the Guardians of the Galaxy video game will use select music from the '80s including Iron Maiden, KISS, New Kids On the Block, Rick Astley, Hot Chocolate, and more that will play throughout the game.

These tracks will also play during a combat mechanic called Huddle which will play an '80s song from Peter Quill’s cassette player and aid the whole Guardians team while fighting. In the video, the team is shown gaining a power-up while fighting to Joan Jett.

When the '80s hits, real or fiction, aren’t playing the Guardians of the Galaxy game will be set to a fully orchestrated score by Richard Jacques recorded at London’s Abbey Road Studios.

Although Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy is a separate project unrelated to James Gunn’s MCU film, it’s clear that music is an important factor in both the game and movie and Eidos-Montreal has taken the sound design in Guardians of the Galaxy to another level.

Guardians of the Galaxy is Square Enix’s second collaboration with Marvel, but unlike Marvel’s Avengers, Guardians will be a fully single-player adventure and not a live-service game. Check out IGN’s full interview with the directors of Guardians of the Galaxy here to find out how Eidos-Montreal brought the space team to life.

Matt T.M. Kim is IGN's News Editor. You can reach him @lawoftd.

from IGN Articles https://ift.tt/3k4XF65