With a brief teaser trailer, Bungie has confirmed that the Marathon gameplay reveal showcase will take place on Saturday, April 12, at 10 AM Pacific Time.
Announced in May 2023, the game revives the developer’s sci-fi franchise, which was originally created in the 1990s. However, this time around, the genre is the trending extraction shooter. The development had a bit of a bumpy road, between the studio’s layoffs and the scandal that involved the former Marathon game director.
We don’t know much about the game, though the developers did share a few details. The new director recently revealed that users will be provided with many different tools to find in the game, such as weapons and equipment that changes their character’s stats or modify some of their capabilities, such as healing consumables.
Players will pick a Runner character before entering the game. Each Runner has a few abilities that the player can further customize. While within the game, users will be assigned several objectives, each coming with its own risks and rewards. Furthermore, if the player cannot extract successfully, they’ll lose all the loot they had gathered during the session.
Earlier, the former Game Director had teased that player actions would influence the persistent world in Marathon.
We’re creating opportunities for player-driven stories to unfold, stories that are integrated with the overarching game narrative. We’re building a world full of persistent, evolving zones, where players create their own journey with every run they take. That might mean an unforgettable firefight against another crew vying for the same loot, or a last-second extraction while beset on all sides.
Beyond just the “story of your last run”, however, we want to give players the chance to affect these persistent zones and the larger world as a result. For example, imagine a crew discovering a previously undiscovered artifact that, when activated, opens a new area of the map for all players to explore. In essence, at Bungie, we’re creating a game where the actions of players can have ramifications for the world and players with each unfolding season.
Marathon will be available for PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series S|X, with cross-play enabled between all platforms to unify the community.
