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Some superhero games make you feel powerful. Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy makes you feel like you are stuck in a spaceship with five loud, wounded, hilarious people who somehow become a family. That is its real superpower. Released as a single-player action-adventure game from Eidos-Montréal, Guardians of the Galaxy arrived with a tricky mission. Players already knew these characters from comics and movies, and the game had to build its own identity without feeling like a

Some superhero sequels go bigger by adding more villains, more explosions, and more plot. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 goes bigger in a stranger way. It opens with a monster fight, a dancing Baby Groot, and Electric Light Orchestra blasting through space, then slowly turns into a story about parents, trauma, forgiveness, and the family people choose when the one they were born into fails them. That mix is why the movie still stands out in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. It h

Marvel took a real gamble with Guardians of the Galaxy. Before 2014, this was not the team casual moviegoers were asking to see. A talking raccoon, a walking tree, a blue-skinned warlord, a cassette-loving outlaw, and a deadly assassin with family trauma did not sound like the safest follow-up to The Avengers. Then the movie opened with Peter Quill dancing across an alien ruin to “Come and Get Your Love,” and suddenly the gamble made perfect sense. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol