Guardians: Agents of Justice

Guardians: Agents of Justice puts the player in the role of a superhero-style operative tasked with dealing with threats that are considerably less interested in obeying the law. The game combines action and strategy elements, with missions requiring players to make decisions about how to use their available characters and abilities. Its comic-book influence gives the setting a colorful personality, while the gameplay offers a mixture of combat and problem solving. It comes from a period when superhero games were still experimenting with ways to translate the genre onto home computers, so the result feels more unusual than formulaic. Guardians: Agents of Justice is particularly interesting for its attempt to make the player feel like a coordinator of a team rather than simply a single unstoppable hero. There is a certain charm in that approach, especially when the supposedly powerful guardians still manage to get themselves into situations where things go spectacularly wrong.