Any live service game is a risk, but Sony and Bungie are betting Marathon can make extraction shooters bigger: "I do think that the ceiling could rise"

A squad of runners huddle together against a clinically stark white background, their gear dotted with color - in the Marathon key art.

Joe Ziegler, director of Bungie's upcoming live service extraction shooter Marathon, says there's plenty of room for growth in the genre partly fueled by the immense success of sandbox shooters and battle royale games.

GamesRadar+ recently had the chance to sit down with Ziegler to talk all things Marathon, and we asked him why the team at Bungie is confident that it'll become "the next hit PvP experience" given the relatively niche popularity of the extraction shooter genre. Turns out, Bungie is hoping to siphon some of the success from big sandbox games with deeper, more meaningful stories.