It was such a good game that felt like I was watching a new GOTG movie. After finishing the game you're gonna feel what a person feels when they leave the cinema after watching a really good movie. Because beside being good game it's a cinematic art too. The visuals, graphics, dialogues, facial expression, story and MUSIC all those are gonna make you feel like you're watching a movie.

The only problem was this game has an optimization issue. Even though my pc system was much more than this game requires but there were sudden frame rate drops. But that's not enough to ruin your day.

One of the few games I have bought on two platforms. Great game. Do not mistake this as some film-to-game adaptation. It is a standalone game based on the comics, much like the Arkham series, and is very well done. Hope to see a sequel in the future.

If you love single player games with fantastic stories and an amazing cast of characters, you're doing yourself a disservice by not playing this game. Easily one of the best, most consistently funny single player games I've ever played. It runs great on PC too.

An absolute joyride of a game. 10/10

Amazing game! I love it!

A profoundly frustrating game because it does some things so well, yet has many lows that are just baffling.

Travel back to a time when Marvel dialogue was funny and entertaining instead of tired and obnoxious.

The game sort of operates in a parallel universe to the GotG movies of the MCU - the voices and the character models are just a bit different, the events of the world are a bit off, but the characters are for all intents and purposes the same. You play as Star Lord the entire game and see things from his perspective.

The highest points of the game is the writing. It's immensely strong. The humor just works all the way through the entire game and never stops being amusing. They know when to be funny and when to be serious. The voice acting is superb. The banter is CONSTANT and you often get to choose your response from Star Lord and both choices feel authentic and the dialogue flows naturally. And it just keeps going, the team members will continuously initiate conversations about the current situation, and often you'll want to just stand in place and let them exhaust all the entertaining dialogue before moving on. If you wander off to grab collectables they'll comment on it. If you take a wrong turn and hit a dead end they mock you. It makes you want to try things just to see how everyone reacts.

The story is pretty good. The game is actually quite similar to a visual novel - it's extremely linear and you get to make constant choices that alter the way events play out slightly. You might help a character who will then come back later and make a specific fight easier. The chapter might play out a bit differently depending on whether you agree with Rocket or Drax on a key decision but things will also always work out in the end. The vast majority of the quality content of the game is walking and talking, and cutscenes. It's a spectacle to just bask in.

I can't imagine how much they paid to license the soundtrack. There's a load of good oldies music in the game.

The problems start to creep in with the combat, which is infrequent and kind of mediocre to be honest. As said earlier you control Star Lord the entire game and the rest of the team fights autonomously with you being able to issue orders for them to use their special moves periodically. The problem is Star Lord doesn't exactly control well. Primarily you shoot his guns at enemies by swinging the right analog to move your camera near them and then locking on so the shots hit. Unfortunately in one of the dumbest design decisions possible, the lock on is not a toggle and you must hold L2. This causes severe issues since you always want to be shooting at something and so always locked on, yet need to be hitting various other buttons to do other actions, which gets awkward on your hand. If you don't lock on though it becomes extremely difficult to shoot things, and your melee attack is janky and risky.

Combat encounters usually devolve to your spamming aoe skills to group up and kill as many mooks as you can as quickly as possible. After about 25% of the way through the game regular encounters all play out the same. Fortunately all the boss fights are generally better designed and more exciting, but they're infrequent. Combat sort of just exists as a way of pacing the story content and something you expect in this kind of game, but they could have done so much better.

The other thing that breaks up story is the puzzles, which are all extremely simplistic and revolve around ordering a team member to do their thing on a background object. Drax smashes walls, Gamora cuts things, Rocket hacks computers, etc. Sometimes you need to use elemental bullets from Star Lord's guns. But the environments are so linear there's always on very clear solution on what you need to do, so are they really puzzles?

The ugly part of the game comes from the massive amount of game breaking softlock bugs present everywhere. It is extremely easy to jump on uneven terrain or rubble and get stuck inside it with no way to escape. Sometimes doors on your ship suddenly refuse to open, trapping you in a room. Some character conversations simply softlock the game if you choose a specific option, and this remains unfixed years after release! Also, the game has a lot of like...forced animations while you move through environments, like ducking down to crawl through a gap or crevice. Sometimes these get bugged out and simply won't activate, leaving you stuck. Team members might have their movement scripts bug out, leaving them standing in one place, but the game won't advance until all team members have moved onto an elevator or some such, so you're again softlocked. Sometimes the subtitles bug out and stop displaying the dialogue.

All of these issues can be fixed by reloading from the last checkpoint, and the game autosaves very frequently so usually you lose like a minute of time, but it's shocking how many of these bugs are present in an ostensibly AAA game so long after release. The devs clearly did not care and QA was poor.

So you end up with a game with very high highs and some extremely frustrating lows. You will love the experience if you can just ignore the warts along the way.

Avoid if you own a steam deck. Aside from the terrible performance issues, control mapping is not what is claimed in the game’s own settings. This’ll learn me to read reviews BEFORE purchasing!

Just not that good...!

I would like recommend Marvel's Guardians Of the Galaxy for everyone.

extremely underrated game. 9.8/10