Bungie’s original Marathon games are coming to Steam and can be downloaded for free, the developer said Lot 2 announced on Friday. The first game in the first-person shooter franchise is now available in the form of Classic marathon. Follow-up Classic Marathon 2 And Classic Marathon Infinity are listed on Steam as “coming soon”.
Bungie thanks the Aleph One community of open source developers for bringing the classic Marathon trilogy to Steam. Aleph One supports the original Marathon, Marathon 2: DurandalAnd Marathon infinity as part of the open source project, which can be downloaded via the official website.
The Steam versions of the classic Marathon trilogy support both Mac and Windows PC. The open-source authors promise “authentic gameplay” with modern conveniences: optional widescreen HUD support, 3D filtering/perspective, positional audio, and 60 fps interpolation.
Bungie has a new take on Marathon in the works for PlayStation 5, Windows PC, and Xbox Series Marathon will be a player-versus-player, team-based extraction shooter in which squads of cybernetic Runners compete to extract artifacts, implants and weapons from a hostile environment. After unveiling the game a year ago, Bungie said it planned to remain dark “for an extended period of time” until it’s ready to show the new version’s actual gameplay. Marathon.
For now, you can catch up on the original trilogy for free. No doubt Bungie will fill the new one Marathon with references to the old ones, if you want to refresh your knowledge.