Video: Everything You Need to Know About Marathon

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Bungie is taking a punt at the extraction shooter genre with Marathon, a PvPvE reimagining of its sci-fi series from the 90s.

It was great to finally see the game in action with the recent showcase, but if we’re being honest, we don’t think Bungie really did the best job at explaining the deeper intricacies of its upcoming shooter.

While we didn’t get to play the game at the recent previews, we’ve been scouring the various articles and videos of those that did, and for us, that’s when we really started to get excited about Bungie’s next venture.

Whether it’s the runner abilities and how they’re not quite as hero-shooter as they first seemed, or how loot works and relates to the overall progression of the game, we’ve boiled everything you need to know about Marathon into a beefy yet concise video over on our YouTube channel.

While there’s still plenty we’d love to see and learn about Marathon, we’re dying to get our hands on it. Sure, it’s a risky space and Sony is undoubtedly still feeling the sting of Concord.

But Bungie could be going for the three-peat of bringing a predominantly PC gaming experience over to console. It did it with FPS games with Halo; it did it with looter shooter MMOs with Destiny; now can it do it with the extraction shooter genre?

We know there are some great extraction shooters on PS5, like Hunt: Showdown 1896, but it’s not a genre that’s taken off on consoles in the ways Escape from Tarkov has on PC, for example.

It’s quite the niche genre, we’ll admit, but if anyone has a chance to make an exciting and deep extraction shooter experience, it’s Bungie. And certainly from all the facts we’ve gathered about Marathon, it’s sounding like a solid foundation. Have a watch of the video and let us know if any of it changes your mind.

Will you be picking it up when it drops on September 23rd, 2025? Or is that as-yet-undisclosed price too much of a barrier for you? Extract those thoughts and vault them in the comments section below.

Swearing an oath of loyalty to PlayStation with the arrival of the PS4, our resident video-maker and Irn-Bru loving Scot prides himself as an expert in modern-day Sony. However, eight playthroughs of The Last Of Us later, and no Platinum to show for it, will forever be his greatest shame.

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