Marathon review in progress - exquisite gunplay and striking aesthetics cover up some frustrating cracks

Three bags of loot, flanked by the bio-synthetic corpses of their previous owners and pools of blue blood. The scene of my murderous victory. Their weapons, implants, heals, and salvage are all mine. Just a couple of weeks ago, I was helping random solo players take out giant robots and diplomatically sharing the spoils in Arc Raiders. However, this is Marathon, and I've left goodwill and friendliness at the door. When the atmosphere is this intense, the gunplay feels this good, and the combat sandbox is this broad, I've found it almost impossible not to squeeze the trigger on every other Runner I see. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS:Marathon's secret sauce has a special ingredient: the team behind masterful indie roguelike Caves of QudI like Arc Raiders, but Marathon made me fall in love with extraction shootersMarathon slides out of Steam's top 50 most-played games just a week on from its promising launch

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Three bags of loot, flanked by the bio-synthetic corpses of their previous owners and pools of blue blood. The scene of my murderous victory. Their weapons, implants, heals, and salvage are all mine. Just a couple of weeks ago, I was helping random solo players take out giant robots and diplomatically sharing the spoils in Arc Raiders. However, this is Marathon, and I've left goodwill and friendliness at the door. When the atmosphere is this intense, the gunplay feels this good, and the combat sandbox is this broad, I've found it almost impossible not to squeeze the trigger on every other Runner I see.

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Marathon's secret sauce has a special ingredient: the team behind masterful indie roguelike Caves of Qud
I like Arc Raiders, but Marathon made me fall in love with extraction shooters
Marathon slides out of Steam's top 50 most-played games just a week on from its promising launch

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