GAMES E3 SPECIAL HOT STUFF Four pages of gaming expo highlights

INNIT MARVELLOUS?

MARVEL’S GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY

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When a publisher like Square Enix gets hold of the Marvel licence, you naturally expect big things – and even more so when the word ‘Avengers’ is uttered.

But it’s fair to say last year’s video-game take on everyone’s favourite superhero collective was a mixed bag, with a host of performance issues hurting the live-service title at launch, and grindy post-game content failing to give players much incentive to stick around once the entertaining campaign was done with.

So what’s next? Well, it’s perhaps not surprising that we’re getting a game this year… but we wouldn’t have put any money on it being the story-driven, entirely single-player title unveiled at E3. In you play as Peter Quill, better