Marathon, Bungie's first real success story and Macintosh's answer to Doom, might be about to make a comeback.Sources speaking to say that Bungie plans to revive Marathon as a three-person squad-based extraction shooter, a la Escape from Tarkov. Those sources state that the game is still in its pre-alpha stages but an announcement could be made soon to help Bungie hire new talent to kickstart development.The new game will be in the Marathon universe, but it seems to only be tangentially related to Bungie's classic first-p▨erson shooter trilogy. It will take place on a planet where a human colony mysteriously vanished, leaving the remaining humans to scrounge for resources just to survive. Those humans control customizable cyborgs called "Runners" to gather loot.
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Described as the "ultimate example of a living game," it sounds like the new Marathon will have all the live-service trappings of Destiny, including seasonal content and a battle pass-like progression system. Insider Jeff Grubb (via ) and added it will "almost certainly" be free-to▨-play with Runner customization being the main source of microtransactions. He described the ga𒐪me's style as "vibrant" but "brutalist," with a "boxy" sci-fi aesthetic. He also said there'd be no load times and minimal queue times for activities.
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