In a parallel timeline where the second game's events unleash a catastrophe, the security officer is stranded on a claustrophobic space station haunted by Durandal's dying words about an Eldritch Abomination. Marathon Infinity: Blood Tides of Lh'owon returns to the Mind Screw attitude of the first game, and then some. It turns out Durandal kidnapped you and put you into stasis after the first game, and now he's sending you to explore ancient ruins on the S'pht homeworld of Lh'owon while he beats up a whole fleet of Pfhor ships. The gameplay in this game is mostly dark claustrophobic hallways and corridors, with a few open areas, but it's all inside of ships.ġ7 years later, Marathon 2: Durandal, the simplest and shortest game in the trilogy to complete, note though perhaps counterintuitively, the most time-consuming to speedrun, due to the lack of level skips, drops the security officer into the middle of an interstellar war between Durandal and the Pfhor. The security officer and the still-functioning AI Leela are dutifully fighting off the alien menace, when it turns out the AI Durandal didn't so much shut down as go completely crazy. A massive alien spaceship has appeared out of thin vacuum and attacked everything in sight, breaking two of the ship's three resident AIs and generally making a giant mess. In Marathon, set in July 2794, a hapless security officer returns from shore leave on the fledgling Tau Ceti IV colony below to the titular spaceship, only to discover that he is going to have a very bad day at work. Marathon Infinity: Blood Tides of Lh'owon (1996, Macintosh) (2012, iPad, iPhone).For such a simple game, the world of Marathon is remarkably fleshed out, which is only par for the course from the people who would go on to make Halo and Destiny. When you're not being confounded by layers of symbolism, the game has tons of plausible quotes from technology design documents, history records, and standards guidelines that will make you wish no AIs will ever be put in working order. In-game terminals that contain all of the games' dialogue come close to William Gibson levels of ambiguity: lots of surreal textual scenes (in the middle of convincing runtime errors) will scratch your cortex. An entire fan site exists just to weave together the story of the series together, for reference. As the ship is attacked by an alien race called the Phfor, the player joins forces with several Artificial Intelligences to save the day.īeyond the Ludicrous Gibs and surface level plot, Marathon is famous for its incredibly rich and complex backstory.
Players take control of a Super Soldier originally tasked as a security officer onboard a colony ship called the Marathon, hence the title. Marathon is a series of groundbreaking Science Fiction First Person Shooters developed for the Macintosh by Bungie Software.
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