Bungie provides an update on its upcoming extraction shooter game ‘Marathon’

After dropping a teaser over a year ago, the creator of Destiny 2 and Halo, Bungie, has finally provided more details on their upcoming extraction shooter game ‘Marathon’. In a new video, game director Joe Ziegler gives fans an update regarding the game and talks about its future, however, there is still no gameplay footage despite the game being on track.

For those who remember Marathon, it is kind of a revival of Bungie’s earliest IP, which put them on the market but with added gameplay changes. For those who don’t, Marathon was an FPS shooter by Bungie released back in 1994. The game was a commercial success, allowing the devs to create two sequels, Marathon 2: Durandal and Marathon Infinity.

Making ‘lot of aggressive changes’ to Marathon

The original IP was a sci-fi-themed game and the upcoming entry is also leaning heavily on the same with ‘familiar elements’, paired with a new story and world with extraction shooter gameplay as a live service element, as per Ziegler. As for the development update, he revealed that Bungie has been making a lot of changes following a response from internal testing.

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As of now, Marathon itself have different progress across different production stages. "Environments are currently in the most advanced stage. Character models are coming together but not fully there yet, and enemy models are still a little bit in an early state," he added.

Fans did get to see some screenshots of runners, specifically two which are codenamed Thief and Stealth-based on their abilities. Apart from this, the team does not have anything else to show off but promised a lot more details in 2025 ahead of its release.

Those who haven’t played the original game can get all three of the Classic Marathon games for free. The game's assets were released by Bungie as freeware in 2005 and Aleph One Developers has taken the announcement of the new game as an opportunity to port the Classic Marathon Trilogy to Steam for free.