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Rory Norris

Bungie's traditional launch woes made for a terrible first impression of Marathon's exciting second season and undermined its free-play week

Marathon: Key art showing an Assassin and Thief holding knives, back to back, divided by a transparent wall.

After the unfortunate end to Destiny 2's live service support, all of Bungie's eggs are in a Marathon-shaped basket. The studio's immediate future hinges on the extraction shooter, so this makes Marathon's second season, Nightfall, all the more crucial. It launched yesterday and coincides with a free-play week for those on the fence.

Season 2 is all a Marathon fan like me could ask for, really:

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