N D Hill
January 29th, 2005, 09:15 PM
The Marathon Trilogy (http://trilogyrelease2.bungie.org/) is being re-released by Bungie as a free download! You can get all three of the original games as well as the editing tools. For those who don't know, Marathon was one of the very first 3-D shooters ever made. This game is an (unfortunately) obscure cult classic. It was such a cool little title on so many levels. It was dark, atmospheric and it had a very complicated and emersive plot that put you on a moon-sized colony ship that had been over run by alien Pirates. What's not to love?
The first one had a pretty simple premise. You're alone on a massive spaceship that's under siege by alien slavers. It sounds simple but when you throw in the ship's Rampant artifical intelegence and missions that have you trying to convice alien slaves to rise up against their masters, you can't help but be drawn in. The next two games take place in a wider range of locations like ancient alien ruins and deserted space stations of unknown design and have you trying to uncover alien history in order to stop the Universe's destruction. Craig Mullins even painted all of the chapter screens and some promotional artwork.
The first one had a pretty simple premise. You're alone on a massive spaceship that's under siege by alien slavers. It sounds simple but when you throw in the ship's Rampant artifical intelegence and missions that have you trying to convice alien slaves to rise up against their masters, you can't help but be drawn in. The next two games take place in a wider range of locations like ancient alien ruins and deserted space stations of unknown design and have you trying to uncover alien history in order to stop the Universe's destruction. Craig Mullins even painted all of the chapter screens and some promotional artwork.