Marathon Launch Review: Bungie’s extraction shooter is a hostile beast worth taming

It’s impossible to divorce Marathon from the context surrounding its development. In July 2024, merely a month after Bungie culminated years of narrative in Destiny 2 with The Final Shape, 220 staff were laid off. As the studio continued development on the longstanding shooter, the attention on Marathon — an extraction shooter set in the same universe as the studio’s namesake series from the late 90s — has been mired in complications. This precedent, one that spans layoffs, management changes, and a significant delay, is reflected in the version of Marathon that launched last week. It’s a shooter with a graceful visual presentation and the top-notch gunfeel that has come to be expected from a studio with a long-standing legacy in the genre. Read More...

Mar 11, 2026 - 19:53

Marathon Launch Review: Bungie’s extraction shooter is a hostile beast worth taming

It’s impossible to divorce Marathon from the context surrounding its development.

In July 2024, merely a month after Bungie culminated years of narrative in Destiny 2 with The Final Shape, 220 staff were laid off. As the studio continued development on the longstanding shooter, the attention on Marathon — an extraction shooter set in the same universe as the studio’s namesake series from the late 90s — has been mired in complications.

This precedent, one that spans layoffs, management changes, and a significant delay, is reflected in the version of Marathon that launched last week. It’s a shooter with a graceful visual presentation and the top-notch gunfeel that has come to be expected from a studio with a long-standing legacy in the genre.

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