11 Best 2021 Video Games You Didn't Play

11. Guardians Of The Galaxy

No one in the world will believe how good Guardians of the Galaxy really is.

Coming in the wake of the disastrous Avengers game, featuring more "knock off"-looking versions of recognisable Hollywood talent - it felt doomed to fail.

Thankfully, the reality of this is entirely Eidos' bread and butter. Guardians of the Galaxy is a Deus Ex; a Mass Effect - something where you'll spend hours just talking to your crew, having surprisingly deep, emotional conversations about their history, why they're fighting, and the lore of the universe itself. It is a categorical failure of marketing that none of this came through before launch, though it's worth pointing out that the awesomely chunky, 80s hits-scored combat is also great.

Surprising in every possible respect, Guardians is a confident package with a throughline vision executed on from start to finish. It's everything The Avengers was not, free from corporate interference like microtransctions or elongated grindy gameplay loops, comfortably sitting alongside Insomniac's Spider-Man titles.