
Explore the lost colony of Tau Ceti IV, scavenging valuable loot in a high-stakes survival first person shooter from the creators of Halo and Destiny.
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Infiltrate the dark sci-fi world of Marathon filled with rival players, enemy forces, and unpredictable dangers. Scavenge its maps alone or with a crew, then fight your way to extraction in tense, high-stakes PVP and PVE battles.
Scour dangerous locations for valuables, loot, and intel on the lost colony.
Grab gear off defeated players and enemies. Exfil successfully and fill your vault.
Complete contracts to earn rewards, upgrade your loadout, and come back stronger.
Pick a Runner shell that fits your playstyle, each with its own unique abilities.
Upgrade your loadout with an arsenal of moddable weapons and customizable abilities.
Craft countless builds, from stealthy infiltrators to frontline bruisers and support specialists.
Crew up in groups of two or three or take on Tau Ceti alone.
Form cautious alliances balanced on a knife’s edge. Make a deal with enemy players or betray their trust for your own gain.
Play as Rook, a lone scavenger with nothing to lose except what you find along the way.
Grow stronger throughout the course of the season and put your best loot on the line to earn incredible rewards.
Climb the ladder and prove you’re a top Runner in Ranked mode.
Enter Cryo Archive to crack raid-like challenges, solve layered puzzles, and clash with rival crews for top-tier loot.
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It's a very good extraction shooter. Weird Art direction (I like but very subjective). It's not for everyone but after 800hr in Hunt:Showdown it's for me. A negative point: cpu heavy (use almost 100% of my AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D 8-Core) , might require more optimisation.
Has a great new player introduction and honestly pretty forgiving overall i find a lot of great people most you can just talk to. basically a dating SIM.
Amazing gunplay, art direction, music, everything. A little frustrating for those not used to the Genre but compared to other extraction shooters, the menu-ing is minimal and its just constant action. 10/10
很喜欢这游戏的画风美术,可惜就是不好玩
was interested in it when the reveals dropped, but never got around to checking it out again or purchasing it until second season started. the moment i bought it all i heard was bad ♥♥♥♥ online. i ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ love this game, the world/story is amazing, the movement feels just right, and once you get used to pvp and not turning your brain off because of looting, you reach a part of the game where everything feels like a chess match. the only looter shooter ive ever enjoyed. also, Destiny 1 > Destiny 2. but id be mad as ♥♥♥♥ at this game too if i had to spend 100s on DLC for them to get deleted, then get my games live service dropped in favor of Marathon lmfao. Thank god i never made the ♥♥♥♥ decision of playing D2 ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
This game just oozes creativity and immersion. The game's systems are so well thought out and the gunplay is some of the best in any game i've ever played. It's punishing, but not annoyingly so, and i've had more insane moments than i can count in game. I'll be playing this game for the foreseeable future. Bungie absolutely knocked it out of the park with Marathon. Also, don't nerf the D54 lol
Pros: -Interesting story, art direction & setting -S-Tier gunplay and mechanics -Level design always keeps things interesting -Super tense, rewarding PVP Cons: -Core gameplay loop increasingly feels like an arena shooter with more steps. You either wipe the map or get wiped -Small, sweaty player base and you can only get so much out of the game playing solo. You eventually either use an LFG or fill with randos. People either very chill or maidenless chuds Conclusion: I am 140 hours in and probably wont pick it up regularly until they add more content or figure out how to not have it be a total sweat fest
Great game, fun PvP. Everything from the visuals, to the way you fight etc. feels pretty fluid. Mantling could have a bit of a re-work, but other than that. I do enjoy a harder style into the PvP genre. The amount of hate this game gets is pretty un-warrented. Guns feel snappy, the way you obtain higher tier loot feels sensible. More game options are def. needed, and rotating map stuff is kind eh. If they start adding more maps, and end game content. This game could be in a very very good place.
so far its prettyyyy gooooooddd
A quite unforgiving extraction shooter, most of the exictment comes from the bis spread between getting pwned right in the first 5 Minutes to leaving the map with the last exfil at 3 seconds left. Its very stressfull (in a positive way) if you do solo runs (and exfil) - adrenalin spikes garantueed when you use a good headset to have spatial awareness of the map. With two friends it is a funny experience - even if you get totaly anihilated within 30 seconds of contact with another team. TLDR: If you have the patience and resilience against frustration, this game makes quite fun.
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