Guardians of the galaxy: played for the first time - just heroic?

With Guardians of the Galaxy is the next superhero adventure in the starting blocks. The action game developed by Eidos Montreal will be released on October 26, 2021 for PlayStation 4/5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X / S and PC. We already reported to the revelation over the new title and felt the developers on the tooth on top of that. Just that Guardians of the Galaxy and the flopped Marvel s Avengers have nothing to do with each other, some should calm down.

Around six weeks before the Action Adventure appears, we had the opportunity to create the opportunity for the first time. The hands-on session ran through the remote service parsec and allowed us to play through the fifth chapter twice.

Flying headquarters

Guardians of the Galaxy is a classic singleplayer adventure in which you exclusively control the Star-Lord Peter Quill directly. The rest Guardians command you dynamically in the battlefield, but does not control it directly. At the beginning of the fifth chapter we are on board the spaceship Milano. Between the missions, she repeatedly returns to her and can interact with the team members to unlock upgrades at the workbench or go to the search for secrets and Easter Eggs.

If you play certain audio tracks about the CD player, the comrades react accordingly. Within the missions, you will also find hidden remembrance items - such as an old root of Groot. These automatically land on board the Milano and release an additional dialogues that provide you with further backgrounds to the respective Guardians . When we discover a ring in Gamora s room, Quill quickly gets into explanatory note.

Guardians of the galaxy has a dynamic and alive due to this interaction possibilities. Even during the missions, the team members are constantly talking to each other, make jokes or even argue. The playable mission leads us to The Rock, an outpost of Nova Corps. The Guardians must pay a punishment at the Space Police and also need components after a LAMA cable has eaten on the Milano. However, when they arrive at the station, it is like blank - almost as in a horror movie. Something strange is here.

Action game, but with decisions

The talks are not only filling material, they often take direct influence on the gameplay and cohesion within the team. So you have to relate as a leader repeatedly and agree to decision points individual comrades or let them be ground.

In our case, Rocket Raccoon was angry with Quill. The result: When we ask him in the mission to crack a castle, we get only a defiant no in response. Only by renewed inquiries he reluctantly goes to work. When exploring the basis, we meet first puzzles and, for example, need to create circuits so that the current flows back to a door.

With the help of the scan function we place usable items and resources. The crafting functions prove to be quite simple: with collected components, you are using the workbench extensions such as scan functions or other extras. Character extensions and special actions are obtained from the experience system with which your talent points collects for step windows.

In this mission, there are two exciting key points where the decision possibilities make it clear. In the prison tract meeting like a left behind, who prompts you to free him. If you press the button, you solve your cell and gives the poor such a free flight to the space. Elsewhere, you will find a helmet of the Nova Corps and thus impaired radio claims. If you answer in Best Han-Solo-Manier, a little later a squad appears. The soldiers surrounds a violet shine and little surprisingly comes to the fight that Drax is almost concerned in the course. If you hold the flap, you avoid the direct conflict and sneaks in the way to the pack.

Teamwork and the combat system

Mystery and jumping elements Together with the dialog options, remove the action everyday life noticeably. Eidos Montreal has to work here and there at the control: double jumps with the jet pack do not feel very well. The focus is, of course, the fighting. Each Guardian has four unlockable special maneuvers. It only controls Star Lord directly and activates its skill with the combination of the L3 and the action button. For the team members, however, you use the R2 button as well as the action keys.

The four Guardians have different tasks in the fight: Gamora shares most damage, Groot can even heal fellow fellow. Our favorite capacity in the test match were Rockets anti-gravitational grenades, with which your opponent will float in the air for a short time. The skills couple the game of decay times and over time you combine these talents together to make maximum damage.

Star Lord himself suggests short distance, deviates or parries attacks even in short reaction tests. At a distance he reaches to the blaster he filled with different types of amps. Its ice beads, for example, proved to be very effective against the grenaders armed with shields. Frozen you can easily fall into the back of the heavily armored guy.

Very nice: her interacts again and again with your Guardians and gives commands for using the objects. Drax hurls so barrels and Gamora drops to the opponents in the Hangar. If the team members are close to each other or are in your proximity, you can use the key command to finish and special moves. Then surrounded by Groot Rocket on the shoulders and the two sets powerful chaos.

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The resulting momentum is spilled in Huddle Moments . Star Lord then calls the team together and waits for your motivating words. As clues for the right tone, short statements of the Guardians , they need to obtain. In the case of success buffs your short-term team and can fire special actions in series. In any case, you revived comrades with the Huddle knocked out. Overall, the combat system of Guardians of the Galaxy convinces. By the mass of functions, the battles are pleasantly complex and at the same time reflects through the dialogues and humor the license awarded again.

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