When Square Enix and Eidos Montreal announced Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy, many were surprised for one simple reason: this new game about a superhero team was a single-player adventure where you play as one character – defacto team leader Peter Quill, AKA Star-Lord. It wasn’t what some expected, particularly after the co-op, Destiny-style revels of Marvel’s Avengers.
VG247 had the chance to sit down with Guardians of the Galaxy Senior Creative Director Jean-François Dugas – and so we of course had to ask about the genesis of GOTG as a single-player game. We also talk about defining these Guardians as different to their movie counterparts, world design, and how Star-Lord’s Walkman doesn’t just include real eighties classics, but also a new era-appropriate eighties heavy rock band written just for this game.
Here’s our chat in full:
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