The legendary shooter has just appeared on Steam and can be downloaded for free. Thanks to the Community, Bungie Brings Back Classic Marathon Games – Marathon (2023)

It is one of the most important video games in the history of shooters and the progenitor of the Halo saga.

Although the saga premiered three decades ago, Marathon promises to be very important for the future Bangui as it was in the mid-nineties. The company is working on a new video game as a service, set in the same universe as those classic shooters, and the success of which will be critical to the developer’s future. However, today the focus is not on the future, but on the past. saga appeared for free on Steam

which allows us to play right now and for free in exchange for the first part.

“Today we are pleased to announce that the Aleph One community is bringing the original Marathon trilogy (1994-1995) to Steam, starting with the release of Marathon 1. We thank the Marathon community for their support over the past several years.” I couldn’t have done this without you” Bungie published on its social networks. In this sense and although We don’t know when the second or third part of the saga will be released.It doesn’t look like the launch of these shipments on Steam will be delayed for too long.

If you dare try the original Marathon, wait. classic shooter in the style of the first Doom. Yes, the situation will be somewhat different. Here we are not faced with a game of killing demons, but our task is to protect the nine from an alien threat. In that sense, it’s an extremely interesting sci-fi game that provides insight into how later classics came to be. It’s worth remembering that just six years after the creation of Marathon, Bungie itself surprised us Halo: Combat Evolved

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When will we learn more about the new Marathon?

The only drawback we can note about these free re-releases is that they are not accompanied by new news about the next Marathon. A game presented at PlayStation Showcase in May 2023 and since then we have made no official progress. Its launch is apparently scheduled for 2025.so it wouldn’t be completely strange if we had some kind of preview at the next Sony events.

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