Marathon

When you get to engage with the maps and the world at your own pace, Marathon is incredible. But Marathon is also frustrating in how its systems, as currently designed and implemented, don't really survive the hardcore audiences that the extraction and PVP shooter genres normally attract. The incentive structures and design choices that essentially force you to kill every runner you come across on sight are overwhelming. This runs directly counter to the emergent and player driven gameplay at the heart of extraction games. The game was marketed and branded as an extraction shooter. You can see why someone would be frustrated or not have fun with Marathon when most raids play out like Apex rather than Tarkov. Marathon is like a movie that had tons of production issues, including last minute rewrites. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't, but the most important thing is the stitching on whatever comes out at the end of production can't be visible. Unfortunately, you can see and feel the friction of the arena BR elements that were stitched on top of the extraction base. A permanent PVE mode in the style of Tarkov PVE add-on seems like a no-brainer, including being playable top to bottom solo. To conclude: I'm frustrated. I want to explore Tau Ceti and dig through crates. I want to smack some UESC around and maybe see an alien or two. I'm a sicko. I want to love Marathon. The technical pieces and art direction that make up the foundation of a great game are there. But the harsh reality is that pushing towards a greater BR arena style in the extraction shooter mix was an interesting but flawed idea to get Marathon out of production hell and across the finish line; it just doesn't work overall. 6/10, a tentative hold recommendation. Will revisit my review when whatever the PVE thing that's being cooked up for S3 is out.

Bonjour, Personnellement, j'aime bien le jeu, l'ambiance est top, le système de faction mélangé avec l'histoire rend le jeu intéressant. Les combats et les sensations de shoot sont excellentes. De plus avec une équipe, on peut prendre un malin plaisir à chasser les autres joueurs. La gestion et la maitrise du bruit est primordial. Etre discret est vitale pour passer inaperçu. Le couteau devient très vite votre meilleur ami. Par contre, Bungie ruine son propre jeu (une fois de plus) par une approche aussi déconcertante qu'idiote.... Chaque saison tout reset et c'est débile. On perd absolument tout... Tout son stuff, toutes ses armes, tous ses up-grade alors qu'on les a extrait... Les perdre au combat est une chose mais tout perdre tous les 4 mois est simplement stupide. Pourquoi jouer dans ce cas ? Mais ce n'est pas le pire, toutes les factions reset... Dans ce jeu on se spécialise via le farm de réputation. Chaque faction a un "arbre de talent" et pour aller plus loin dans l'arbre il faut augmenter le niveau de la faction (via des missions à réaliser sur le terrain, certaines missions sont monstrueusement compliquées à faire et demandera des dizaines de try). C'est long à faire, très long même. C'est comme cela qu'on va construire sa façon de jouer (en fonction des bonus qu'on va débloquer en fonction de nos priorités). Cela demande du temps et de l'investissement. Mais non, il faut cracher sur les joueurs qui s'investissent et qui font vivre le jeu. Car tout reset mêmes les factions... Personnellement, cela m'a dégouté d'y jouer. Je n'y retournerai pas.

Aside from the social media hate campaigns against this game, it contains some of the most fun fps gameplay however there is no depth to the game whatsoever so there is not much of a reason to play the game after 20 hours or so. Although fun, the entire gameplay loop is extremely repetitive. Not much to do other than killing people, taking their loot, and doing repetitive seasonal quests and I expected more from Bungies entry into the extraction shooter genre due to their previous titles (Destiny & Halo) gameplay loops/depth resulting in the success of those games long term.

An exceptional experience. I don't really understand the vitriol being spewed over it. The game is a blast. This is the only extraction shooter I've played where getting killed and looted after a 15 minute drop doesn't feel devastating, yet exfiltrating feels exhilarating. The learning curve is moderate and very approachable for casuals like myself. The action is intense and easy to find, and the art/world/lore/production is incredible and inspired.

Get woke. Go broke.

Junk game

Okay. So in general it's the best FPS shooter I've played in my life. And it's no match. Why? Fantastic gunplay, pretty wide tactical options and choice of weaponry, thrilling PVP, and freaking awesome maps. (Cryo is a literally a masterpiece) Visuals are sick, sound design is even better. If you understand the essence of the game you will have a great time (I needed around 100 hours to get a hand of it). But the more time you invest in the game, more details are revealed to you. If you want to try hard the ♥♥♥♥ out of this game - you can do it, and you will be rewarded. If you want to just run around and have fun fights without caring about gun building or implant choices - it's definitely a possibility as well, you are gonna like it. The game has a huge potential in my opinion. If it will not decay in couple of months or a year, it will be even greater game. Minuses: - Kinda bad UX/UI - Low player count - No onboarding (the game just throws you into, and you have to figure out a lot of things by yourself). So if you are just starting, go get someone to help you with some fundamentals - Bugs - And awful start of the season 2 And yeah. You will have a hard time if you don't know how to read, and if you care about pixels in your inventory more than the fun aspect - you won't like it for sure.