Bungie announces
Marathon, a PvP extraction shooter in the works for PC
and consoles with full crossplay and cross-save capabilities. Here's the
Official Announce Trailer with a cinematic introduction. The game does not
yet carry a release date, but the
Marathon
Website is here to help us keep up with development. The announcement
mentions this connects to the company's "legendary history," but doesn't point
out the connection. Bungie already released a first-person shooter titled
Marathon back in 1994. This included some innovations for the fledgling genre,
but was a Macintosh exclusive, so most gamers didn't get to play it, though the
sequel,
Marathon 2: Durandal, did eventually come to PC. There's no
indication of how the new Marathon is considered to be connected to the
original, if at all:
Today Bungie took the next step in its evolution into
a multi-game studio with the announcement of its next game: Marathon, a new
sci-fi extraction shooter and the first completely new project from the studio
in more than a decade. Marathon is currently in development for PlayStation 5,
Xbox Series X|S, and PC with full cross save and cross play, and no release date
has been announced. Coinciding with the announcement, Bungie released the first
CGI trailer for the game, showing off a first look at the world of Marathon, a
glimpse of the player characters—known in game as “Runners”—and the game’s bold
visual style.
A PvP-focused extraction shooter set on the mysterious planet of Tau Ceti IV,
Marathon will see players inhabit the bodies of Runners, cybernetic mercenaries
who have been designed to survive the planet’s harsh environments, exploring the
lost colony that once inhabited Tau Ceti’s surface. Players will engage solo or
in crews of three, searching for mysterious alien artifacts, as well as for
valuable loot and new weapons and gear that they can add to their collection.