Bungie’s original Marathon games come to Steam and are free to download from the developer Destiny 2 announced on Friday. The first game in the first-person shooter series is now available in the form of Classic marathon. Sequels Classic marathon 2 And Classic Marathon Infinity are listed as “coming soon” on Steam.
Bungie credits the Aleph One community of open source developers with 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, available for download via its official website.
The Steam versions of the classic Marathon trilogy support both Mac and Windows PCs. Its 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 version of Marathon in the works for PlayStation 5, Windows PC and Xbox Series X. The new Marathon will be a team-based player-versus-player extraction shooter where squads of cybernetic runners compete to recover artifacts, implants and weapons from a hostile environment. After revealing the game a year ago, Bungie said it planned to keep it in the dark “for an extended period” until it was ready to show actual gameplay of the new game Marathon.
For now, you can catch up on the original trilogy for free. Undoubtedly, Bungie will stuff the new stuff Marathon with references to the old ones in case you want to brush up on your lore.
