Marathon

Very fun but way too sweaty for casuals. As a washed Tarkov vet it's even too much for me. Quite enjoying the PvE content they've been experimenting with.

Genuinely fun gunplay, cool aesthetics and setting. Once you understand what certain items mean / how to navigate the world and deal with squads it's tense and fun.

tres bien

As a fps hater, this is the first game I truly liked. It's hard core, yes, but it's fun game to play with friends.

al principio pensaba que el juego era muy dificil...resulto ser verdad, pero aun asi decidi darle una oportunidad. ya llevo muchas horas del juego y la verdad me he visiado bastante jaja. los mapas son oscuros y da miedo jugarlo de noche, tienes que estar muy alerta, salir con un botin de 10K sales cagando leches para exfiltrar, BUENISIMO EL JUEGO

Separating the art from the artist with Marathon is a bit of a difficulty, but if you can the game itself is absolutely worth it.

Honestly, this is my favorite videogame that I've played in a decade, and I've played Destiny 2 (2000 hours), Escape From Tarkov, WoW, Guild Wars 2, Battlefield 6, Apex, PUBG, COD, Arc Raiders and basically anything that a shooter fan could enjoy. There is something about going into a map to do quests and stumbling upon another squad and scrambling to survive the fight. There is something about breaking into a secure facility and leaving mines behind you as sound traps in case another team tries to ambush you while you're fighting enemies. There is something about aborting a mission to defend yourself against a team and having to extract sooner than expected. I think the biggest negative thing I can say about this game is that two things: 1. If this is your first shooter, you're ♥♥♥♥♥♥ unless you have people who can run protection on you. My sister wanted to play this game and she would not be having fun if she didnt have me and her husband protecting her https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ume1B1jSnHg 2. This game is too PvP oriented, in the sense that almost all interesting activities lead to unavoidable PvP. Open a key room? Make a level-wide noise that EVERYONE can hear. Still, as far as memories and satisfaction, this game leaves me satisfied. I dont want to grind it for 8 hours a day, but I do want to play it daily for at least 2 hours. When I'm done, I feel like I enjoyed all of my time, which is not something I could say about WoW, Destiny, Battlefield or Arc Raiders.

Very well done for gunplay and things to do for an extraction shooter. I had severe doubts but the more I got into it the more I started to enjoy what the devs crafted

It's a great game at the end of the day. I seldom write reviews, but Marathon deserves some love amongst all the crud it's gotten. The game is fun if you're into sweaty extraction shooters. You'll definitely have some moments where you're gearing up and it feels impossible to fight purple and gold shield teams. But thats the fun when your skills catch up and win those big fights. The shells all have distinct identities that do play into a comp with synergies. I'm excited to see where the game goes.

I love this game as an extraction shooter, as an entry to the franchise, and as a game in general. The artstyle and worldbuilding is insane. My ONLY gripe, and I mean ONLY, is the class/character system. Turning an extraction shooter into a hero game was not exactly something I had been hoping for, especially from an extraction shooter. I would've settled for abilities with customizable shells (as was originally promised), but instead I have to entirely avoid the Solos mode because half the players are invisible and the other half are using characters with insane mobility (Thief, lol). It gets frustrating when you're stuck on the same quest for a week because random fills refuse to go near your objective and solos you can't travel 50ft without encountering a player of some kind. I really, REALLY like Marathon. But the class system has me burnt out. I'm tired of hero shooters, I'm tired of class based abilities. I'm tired of annoying jank that only adds to divide the playerbase more. I love all of the shells and characters Marathon has, but I hate them in gameplay, and this game would be better without a hero system. I cannot name an extraction shooter with some kind of class/character based mechanics and it's because it really just doesn't work that well.