Marathon

Awesome game. Definitely worth playing. The setting is perfect. The visuals are beautiful.

good game, despite the haters

This game is a beautiful mashup of Destiny's gunplay, set in an extremely clean, color saturated world that would make Neville Brody proud. The environmental storytelling is top notch, and this visual style is much preferred to all of the drab brown FPS games on the market. Picking a skin for your character? Take whatever you want. Neon red will still blend into the visually busy landscape. I'll admit that I didn't understand this game at first - I played the beta and wasn't really hooked even after 4 hours of gameplay - but when this game clicked, it *clicked*. This game leans on spatial awareness through sound more than any other game I know of. Bring your best headphones. Play every class. Learn the sound of each ability and what class just armed their Search and Destroy ability behind the wall right next to you. This is an extraction shooter that hides a Battle Royale inside, along with movement shooter mechanics and one or two nods to Destiny-style raids. The maps are too small to be a classic extraction shooter: while most games lean on the threat of seeing players once every few games, you will almost certainly fight one or two teams in every game. In fact, it is not uncommon for experienced teams to attempt to wipe the lobby and spend the rest of the match grabbing loot in peace. You'll have multiple losses in a row where you'll spend some time back in the menus being frustrated at the power difference between you and the squad with all purple gear that just steamrolled you (and everyone else they saw that match), but slowly you'll start to acquire the game sense needed to turn the tables. I've been on both sides of that equation. I've gone zero to hero by performing identity theft on the experienced player who made the mistake of getting on a ladder right in front of me, and on the flip side I've received a knife to the face from around the corner while I was kitted to the teeth and stuck in my ult animation. You have to get over gear fear - it will all be lost at the end of the season anyways, so you might as well take the fun items for a spin at some point. Being honest for a moment: the game definitely has a niche appeal. However, we're slowly seeing a return to the PvE focus that it had before the game flipped directions during development, and the response has been very positive. My hope is that in a year or two Marathon will be recognized as the diamond in the rough that us beta players saw it as - and maybe, just maybe, it will be Bungie's next big IP.

Fun, despite what people who hold a grudge against Bungie's other games think. Maybe a little too sweaty. It should develop a proper PvE experience for people who just want to chill.

It's very good. If System Shock 2 and Call of Pripyat had a messed up multiplayer baby, it would be like this. The atmosphere, aesthetics and gameplay are 10/10. The writing has a deadpan sense of humor that works really well. The playerbase are surprisingly un-toxic (still pretty sweaty). The map designs are elaborate and well thought out. There are a lot of things that could be improved. They still haven't found the right balance for shotguns. Matchmaking sometimes feels pretty broken. The UI needs some serious work done to it (not just bug fixes, but also basics like better menu layout). Some of that might get sorted out in updates. As it stands, it's a good game with room for improvement.

learn and fight

i ran to get the game get it