One other dive into Bungie’s new shooter

Throughout yesterday’s PlayStation Showcase, Bungie revealed it was reviving the Marathon franchise for a brand new sci-fi extraction shooter. And thru an ARG hidden contained in the reveal trailer, followers unlocked one other take a look at Marathon although a Bungie ViDoc.

A QR code was hidden within the Marathon teaser from yesterday. And the web sleuths who discovered it had been fast to work and uncover simply what it meant. This spun out into what’s often often known as an Alternate Actuality Recreation, or ARG; a sequence of clues and puzzles that weave out and in of the net, often resulting in some secret data. Future YouTuber Skarrow9 has a video up, detailing how the group labored collectively to resolve it.
The consequence was a brand new ViDoc, Bungie’s time period for a behind-the-scenes making-of video quick. Bungie’s created quite a few them for Future, and it appears to be like like Marathon is getting its personal as nicely, beginning with the uncovered video “What’s Marathon? | Someplace In The Heavens.”

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A lot of the ViDoc covers materials from the PlayStation Weblog interview. Bungie plans to include each inside this PvP, extraction shooter playstyle. When you’re unaware, extraction shooters are a useful catch-all for a style of FPS that’s been popularized by video games like Escape From Tarkov. You enter an space, acquire good loot, tussle with different groups, and attempt to “extract” the loot earlier than getting worn out.

For Bungie, it appears to be like like they’re attempting to kindle a lot of that stress and use it for storytelling. Marathon will likely be PvP, however the crew teases world occasions too. The concept of being the “world’s first” to uncover a brand new space, opening it up for different gamers. It’s intriguing, although I’m wondering how nicely it will work on a grander sccale.
What actually catches my eye within the ViDoc is the artwork. The Marathon teaser had an unimaginable fashion to it, and that carries by means of the artwork right here. The colours and distinction, between future tech and alien flora, is beautiful.

We’ll see extra of how Marathon stacks as much as its legacy as Bungie shares extra particulars. In any other case, you possibly can meet up with all of the information from yesterday’s PlayStation Showcase right here.

Eric Van Allen

Senior Information Reporter – Whereas Eric’s been writing about video games since 2014, he is been enjoying them for lots longer. Often discovered grinding RPG battles, digging into an indie gem, or hanging out across the Limsa Aethryte.

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