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Much like Squares Avengers game, its easy to think that Guardians of the Galaxy would be a co-op multiplayer game, with each player controlling the likes of Star Lord, Drax, Gamora, Groot, or Rocket Raccoon. But instead, Guardians of the Galaxy is a single player game.

Square Enix and Eidos Montreal have announced Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy, a new video game in which players take on the role of Star Lord and command a team of Guardians. Much like Square’s Avengers game, it’s easy to think that Guardians of the Galaxy would be a co-op multiplayer game, with each player controlling the likes of Star Lord, Drax, Gamora, Groot, or Rocket Raccoon. But instead, Guardians of the Galaxy is a single player game. We spoke to Eidos Montreal to find out why.

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Talking to IGN, Guardians of the Galaxy’s Senior Creative Director, Jean-François Dugas, said “We started to discuss different opportunities like multiplayer or co-op. But we were really looking at what Guardians of the Galaxy is, and it’s all about those characters. It’s all about colourful personalities clashing with each other, and sometimes getting along. It’s a mix of all these things, their qualities, their flaws. And we thought ‘It would be freaking awesome if you could be one of the Guardians, and put you at the centre of that to be surrounded by those characters’. And this is how it came to be.”

Eidos Montreal’s desire to put one character at the centre of the game and have those personality-filled characters revolve around them led to a system in which Star Lord acts as the leader of the team, and can issue orders to characterful, AI controlled teammates. Dugas notes, though, that Star Lord is the ‘so-called leader’, and so the other Guardians don’t necessarily always respect him.

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“You’re not leading them officially, and sometimes the Guardians will make decisions on their own,” he explained. “But we talk about this kind of ecosystem in which [the other Guardians] can be characters on their own, make their own decisions, have their own reactions. And you, as the so-called leader, as the player, decide how to react to those things. We thought the purpose of that was really really exciting, so we dived into that to explore what it would mean for the game.”

And so that’s why Guardians of the Galaxy is a single-player action game where you play as Star Lord, rather than a co-op game with a choice of heroes.

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Is Guardians of the Galaxy co op is a reasonable question to ask, when you can see up to five different heroes taking part in the same scenes if you watched footage available for the game. This query hinges around whether some of those characters are NPCs, or if there's a Guardians of the Galaxy multiplayer option available so you can split their duties between a group of friends while playing together. We've got the answers for you here, but unfortunately if you were hoping for there to be Guardians of the Galaxy co op then the news isn't good.

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Is Guardians of the Galaxy co op or multiplayer?

No, at time of writing Guardians of the Galaxy has no co op mode or multiplayer capabilities. It can't even be played online – it's solely single player and as far as we know, there's no plans by Eidos or Square Enix to change that in the future.

To clarify, the multiple characters that you might've seen in the promotional footage or advertisements are all controlled by one player. Specifically, that player plays as Peter Quill/Star-Lord, but you have the option in and out of combat to give instructions to your allies, slowing down time, highlighting an opponent or object and giving a specific order that they then carry out. You can't actually play as the other Guardians, nor can anybody else, instead framing you as the leader of a team of (mostly) obedient NPCs.

Will Guardians of the Galaxy get online co op or multiplayer?

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At the moment we don't know of any plans by the developers to include an online, co op or multiplayer element, or even classic couch co op. While it's not impossible, it doesn't seem likely that such a feature would be added, as the strictly-single player nature of Guardians of the Galaxy leaves very little room for this kind of expansion. Or it may simply be the case that the idea of Square Enix doing Marvel-focused online co op games has become tainted since the Avengers game launched.

Still, nothing's impossible, and with a certain amount of interest in the idea of a co op Guardians of the Galaxy game, perhaps adjustments will be made in the future. Whatever happens, we'll be sure to update this page as and when we hear more from the developers on this matter.

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Is Guardians of the Galaxy an offline game?

Players of the former were particularly peeved at the lack of Guardians' playability since the game is a single-player offline experience. Even though Guardians doesn't include online elements, for some reason it still needs an internet connection to be played offline.

Is GOTG game 2 player?

Much like Square's Avengers game, it's easy to think that Guardians of the Galaxy would be a co-op multiplayer game, with each player controlling the likes of Star Lord, Drax, Gamora, Groot, or Rocket Raccoon. But instead, Guardians of the Galaxy is a single player game.