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.

лучше бы они вернули Конкорд, чем Марафон

игра каловая масса, 0 оптимизации под пк из-за чего просадки фпс, бесконечные фризы, лаги и баги, казино с криоархивом заходишь убиваешь 40 мобов 2 сертификата по этому вайп, интерфейс каловаяя масса, оптимизация покупки оружия каловая масса да возьмите вы систему как в арене а не вот это вот по 2 часа сидеть и искать пушки у одного моды у другого

Game sucks. Basically a neon crayon box exploded and you get this heep of garbage. They also steal work from artists. Game is trash and so is Bungie. Bungie died with Halo Reach.

Think twice before buying this if you don’t have a squad. Great aesthetics and cool concept, but it's just not fun. If you're playing solo, invest your time in another game. You absolutely need a squad to enjoy this. After 130 hours, I'm throwing in the towel. Games are supposed to be fun. Bungie refuses to listen, and they never will. Increase the TTK so we can actually see those 'different ways to tackle a challenge' What’s the point of having a build if you just get instantly deleted by some sweat with 1,000 hours, while you barely have 2 hour to play at night?

I enjoyed the art and the sound effects. I did not enjoy the massive amount of aiming the game does for controller players, or the queue breaking issues involving the menus. There are a large amount of desync and packet loss issues that occur only in this game at crucial moments. The combination of aiming for other players and not being able to have knife hits register when your gear is at stake is a terrible combination for a game where you lose gear upon death. The game is a bad PVP battle royale with extra steps, which got tiring after a while.

Such a boring extraction shooter