The latest new release to break gaming discourse on the internet is from the makers of Halo and Destiny, and those decades of shooter DNA can be felt in its slick gunplay and deep world-building that players have come to expect from Bungie.
The biggest issue with Marathon is that it's extremely niche, built for a hardcore PvP extraction shooter audience, with PvE quests and missions in the background as powerful AI enemies also add in several wrinkles to the core loop. But is it a bad thing? Not for me, but your mileage may vary quite a bit.
