'Marathon' Review: One Battle After Another

From the outside looking in, Marathon seems like a straightforward game. It’s a first-person extraction shooter that leans heavily on the PvP (player vs. player) aspect of PvPvE (player vs. player vs. environment). During my early hours, I played the game like a straightforward FPS—see an enemy, kill an enemy—and it was solid, highlighted by its snappy gun handling and charming graphical style. Once I figured out it wasn’t like other shooters, though, that’s when the game’s brilliance began to come into focus.