Marathon goes full sci-fi horror in trailer for season 2 amid souring Bungie sentiment

Everyone online is free to say a lot of critical or negative things about Bungie and its extraction shooter Marathon, but the quality of its cinematics are tough to debate. A new cinematic for the game’s season two, Nightfall, dropped today ahead of its launch next week and it’s excellent, just like every other animated short that’s come before it. It remains to be seen if it’ll translate into renewed player interest for the June 2 update, but for now, we can gawk at the video below. https://www.youtube.com/embed/a1i801SDrJA?feature=oembed&enablejsapi=1&origin=https://www.destructoid.com https://embeds.beehiiv.com/a8d62108-86ed-4039-bf49-44877ba62c15 Season two will bring about a new rewards pass, a new Runner Shell, and an inventory reset, but the cinematic puts the focus on some horror elements that look like they’ll be included in the new Night Marsh map. It’s awesome. Night Marsh is a nighttime variant of the existing Dire Marsh map, but it seems as though there may be more than meets the eye at first, and it could involve the franchise’s ever-creepy Simulacrum, which function as exploding reanimated humanoid foes that sprint directly at the player while hooting and hollering. The Sentinel Runner Shell is also a star in the video, and it’s a big secret up until now what the playable class’s ability set will look like. But players can test it out when the update drops alongside new weapons, the new Cradle system, improvements to progression, a flashlight mechanic to navigate the dark, and a slew of other quality-of-life updates. It’s yet another dark time at Bungie, which announced last week that it would be ending live-service content updates for Destiny 2 after its June 9 update. Marathon is not the favorite amongst Destiny players, some of whom blame the extraction shooter for the RPG looter shooter’s impending demise. One of those includes top Destiny streamer Aztecross, who basically says he will be boycotting Marathon going forward after Destiny 2’s effective sunsetting. “I want Destiny 3, I want this universe expanded,” he said. “And Marathon, if I have to fuckin’ bury you myself to send that message, I shall. I will do everything I can to destroy you, piss on your corpse, and light you on fire afterwards.” Far be it from me to tell people they’re wrong about that, but the fact is that Marathon needs to excite players with its offerings to keep its core audience engaged while simultaneously bringing in a lot more players and revenue, lest more difficult decisions will need to be made at Bungie and its owners at PlayStation. 0 The post Marathon goes full sci-fi horror in trailer for season 2 amid souring Bungie sentiment appeared first on Destructoid.

May 27, 2026 - 05:51

Marathon goes full sci-fi horror in trailer for season 2 amid souring Bungie sentiment

Everyone online is free to say a lot of critical or negative things about Bungie and its extraction shooter Marathon, but the quality of its cinematics are tough to debate.

A new cinematic for the game’s season two, Nightfall, dropped today ahead of its launch next week and it’s excellent, just like every other animated short that’s come before it. It remains to be seen if it’ll translate into renewed player interest for the June 2 update, but for now, we can gawk at the video below.

https://www.youtube.com/embed/a1i801SDrJA?feature=oembed&enablejsapi=1&origin=https://www.destructoid.com https://embeds.beehiiv.com/a8d62108-86ed-4039-bf49-44877ba62c15 Season two will bring about a new rewards pass, a new Runner Shell, and an inventory reset, but the cinematic puts the focus on some horror elements that look like they’ll be included in the new Night Marsh map. It’s awesome.

Night Marsh is a nighttime variant of the existing Dire Marsh map, but it seems as though there may be more than meets the eye at first, and it could involve the franchise’s ever-creepy Simulacrum, which function as exploding reanimated humanoid foes that sprint directly at the player while hooting and hollering.

The Sentinel Runner Shell is also a star in the video, and it’s a big secret up until now what the playable class’s ability set will look like. But players can test it out when the update drops alongside new weapons, the new Cradle system, improvements to progression, a flashlight mechanic to navigate the dark, and a slew of other quality-of-life updates.

It’s yet another dark time at Bungie, which announced last week that it would be ending live-service content updates for Destiny 2 after its June 9 update. Marathon is not the favorite amongst Destiny players, some of whom blame the extraction shooter for the RPG looter shooter’s impending demise.

One of those includes top Destiny streamer Aztecross, who basically says he will be boycotting Marathon going forward after Destiny 2’s effective sunsetting. “I want Destiny 3, I want this universe expanded,” he said. “And Marathon, if I have to fuckin’ bury you myself to send that message, I shall. I will do everything I can to destroy you, piss on your corpse, and light you on fire afterwards.”

Far be it from me to tell people they’re wrong about that, but the fact is that Marathon needs to excite players with its offerings to keep its core audience engaged while simultaneously bringing in a lot more players and revenue, lest more difficult decisions will need to be made at Bungie and its owners at PlayStation.

0 The post Marathon goes full sci-fi horror in trailer for season 2 amid souring Bungie sentiment appeared first on Destructoid.

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