Marathon

[The Hamburglar]

 

Discuss Marathon here.

 

Oh also, all 3 Marathon games are FREE now.

 

so you have no excuse to not be playing these classic shooters.

 

http://marathon.sourceforge.net/

[Alyxx Thorne]

These are hardly obscure. They were quite popular back in the day, especially among Mac gamers. And with the popularity of Halo I think a lot of Halo fans also got exposed to them.

 

I'm moving this to General Gaming.

[Flyingamerboy]

Marathon is a good game on the ipad

[Axeldeath]

Bumping because I just downloaded the first Marathon game-

 

I'm really enjoying this, I thought that I'd hate Doom engine FPS's after Doom and Duke 3D but thankfully Marathon fixes all the issues I had with the other two games.

 

With mouse look, a good story and beautiful graphics for a Doom engine game (probably due to it being a fan remake, as the textures are equal to Quake 3) I've found the oldest FPS that I consider to be good, too bad Bungie decided to make Halo after this I guess, I would have liked to see a modern version of a game with this much potential. The AI's are actually interesting characters (compared to Duke's 2-dimensional, juvenile personality) and I can almost see the makings of characters such as SHODAN and GLaDOS in Durandal.

 

Overall I give it a 9/10 for it's time period and a 7/10 today.

[Alyxx Thorne]

Since Macintosh wasn't viewed as a good gaming platform, Bungie made Marathon and other titles to help change this trend, and it probably didn't but that didn't stop Marathon from being a good Macintosh game.

[Very7684]

very cool, looks way better than Doom and Duke Nukem 3D

[Alyxx Thorne]

Really proved how the Macintosh was superior to the PC in some ways.

[Arby]

Saw the post announcing they were free on Bnet a few days ago. Boy is that place dull right now without it being the official hub for Halo on the internet, can't wait for Bungie to announce something new.

[Luis]

Looks very promising, I've always enjoyed the DOOM-like shooters like this one, or one of the several WADs for it avaliable in Zdaemon. I'm downloading the first game right now .