Bungie snuck a bunch of Halo guns into Marathon
You can take the Bungie out of Halo, but it'll take more than a 16 years-past Microsoft breakup to take the Halo out of Bungie. The presence of the seminal FPS can be felt throughout much of Bungie's new extraction shooter, Marathon, in ways both subtle and decidedly obvious. Acknowledging that Marathon and Halo are inherently intertwined by symbology, themes, and shared terminology, an echo of Bungie's past work is also felt mechanically. Some of Marathon's Halo-isms can be attributed to a house...