Marathon

Best extraction shooter I have ever played. Buy it.

I'm havin a blast ngl

Absolute dog game. You have no chance against someone putting in upteen hours into this game. The game is designed for those that live on the thing. Bungie is far from what it used to be and should have learned lessons from failed ♥♥♥♥ like DayZ and WarZ. Extraction shooters aren't it! This game isn't paving any pathways, the game is a hodgepodge cluster. Allowing comments so people can cope and flame.

While the extraction shooter genre is known for being difficult to play and the skill ceiling being very high, Marathon's variety in not only shells to choose from that give you cool and empowering abilities and contracts that let you focus on objectives you feel comfortable in accomplishing, and because the success of these objectives often is not tied into your ability to extract successfully, you won't feel so bad when your run ends unexpectedly if you were able to accomplish your contract before elimination. It's worth playing. The lore is cool and the gameplay is fun. Those that love high risk high reward stuff will thrive and those who wanna study lore and mysteries can find much to investigate.

The reason I rated this game as a yes is because of how visualy satisfiying it is to play. On the other hand this game is defenitly not for everyone. It's pretty hardcore, so if you are going to but it to have just a fun time shooting people in a very cool artstyle game, it's not for you. The gunfights with actual other runners is so uncommon that when it happens, your not ready unless you are (again) playing in the mindset of hardcore.

Once you realize this is a rougelike with extraction elements, it all clicks

this game ROCKS please make a Mac verison NOWW

Marathon is the peak of extraction shooters: it captures the high-stakes thrill of the genre without relying on the borderline-abusive, cyclical grind of its competitors (ARC Raiders is something else entirely). It epitomises the philosophy of "easy to learn, hard to master"; and replaces suffocating, fun-killing "gear fear" with a balanced gameplay-first loop in which losing gear feels like a fair wager rather than a terrible setback. If you want an intense, PvP-first shooter that delivers the emotional highs of Escape from Tarkov while not needing to hoard the best gear to stand a chance in a lobby, Marathon is your game! Marathon successfully delivers an intense feeling that few games truly do: the feeling of simultaneously being hunter and prey. It succeeds where most others fail by creating a beautiful system in which this dynamic plays out. In Marathon, when you feel like prey, it isnt simply due to having lesser gear or bad luck. It is a direct result of your choices, be it putting yourself in a bad spot, making a bad decision in a gunfight, or approaching a situation in a sub-optimal way that might even force you to fall back and reassess. On the other hand, when you feel like the hunter, it is a high that is earned through not only mechanical skill, but mastery of the game systems (such as shell abilities, implants, util, etc), situational awareness, sharp intuition, and flawless execution. What really makes Marathon shine among not only extraction shooters, but live-service games, is its rejection of the abusive, FOMO-driven cycles that are far too common in contemporary video games. To be completely fair, the game isnt without its frustrating moments. If you spend much time in end-game areas like the Cryo Archive, you have definitely run into trios sporting kitted Misriah shotguns that have a seemingly endless supply of bubble shields. Its incredibly unbalanced and a brutal combination, but even this doesnt guarantee a loss; playing smart - using util and shell abilities to draw them out of their bubbles and put the fight back into your hands - still allows you to break these teams apart and claim their gear as your own. Because the game constantly and generously rewards you with easy (and even free!) gear, losses - both fair and unfair - are heavily mitigated. Gear in this game is a wager: the better the gear, the higher the stakes. But even losing a piece of Prestige equipment is never devastating. This philosophy of gear raising the stakes of individual runs, while the game continuously feeds you resources, greatly incentivises creative buildcrafting and aggressive playstyles. Apart from the mechanical profundity and the joy that comes from skill expression, this game is visually beautiful. Although very striking, the visual design and art direction are easy to read in the heat of combat. Every weapon, valuable, consumable, piece of utility, etc. has a distinct and interesting design that lets you quickly identify what it is and whether or not you want it. The design of the world not only serves its purpose in facilitating gameplay, it completely immerses you in the setting. The clean, corporate bright colours of the colony - mankinds greatest achievement - overtaken with death, disease, the paranormal, and the inevitable crawl of time. When you teleport into the map in your shiny new shell, with your shiny new guns, and descend into a derelict facility overtaken by an anomalous swamp on an alien world, you feel like a high-tech graverobber picking at the skeleton of a giant. Genuinely could not recommend more.

Game is pretty fun and has very nice world building, atmosphere, and sound design. Im sure with time down the line the game will improve and that will bring more interesting things to the game to grab the attention of some people.

If you liked to get rammed into a wall(by AI, Clunky bullies with anger issues, teammates, and other assortments of horror), then this FPS is for you. Come join the sweatiest, most sleep depraved, caffeine dependent, trash game loving people you'll ever have the pleasure to kill or die to. You will want to gouge your eyes out at the sheer beauty of the bugs alone but don't fret, its loads of fun