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With Bungie’s reboot of their ‘90s FPS a year away, free fan revival Classic Marathon wins the race onto SteamWith the developers' blessing of the “true tribute”
With the developers' blessing of the “true tribute”
Image credit:Bungie/Aleph One team
Image credit:Bungie/Aleph One team
Bungie’s reboot of their nineties pre-Halo debut shooterMarathonseems to be slowing down its pace a little in order to get across the finish line, with a change in director and a delay meaning themultiplayer-only loot-shooter reimaginingof the FPS is now expected to arrive next year - or potentially even after that,according to recent reports.
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In the meantime though, another revival of the 30-year-old former Mac exclusive looks set to beat the original developers at their own race onto Steam.
Fan-made port ClassicMarathonis exactly as it sounds: the original shooter tweaked to run on modern-day hardware, with some added features like widescreen support, improved audio, 3D filtering/perspective and 60+ fps interpolation. All those are optional if you want to relive the days of 1994, mind.
Classic Marathon, however, will make doing all that just a smidge easier, as its community-led team have confirmed they will be bringing the shooter as a ready-to-play experience to Steam “soon”.
Image credit:Bungie/Aleph One team
Before you worry about the longevity of a fan-made re-release of the shooter, know that the project even has Bungie’s blessing, who confirmed toPC Gamerthat Classic Marathon is “a true tribute to the original game”.
Somewhat ironically, given that Marathon was a Mac exclusive at the time of its original release, theSteam version of Classic Marathonwill only work on Windows. It’ll be able to play cross-platform multiplayer with those running Aleph One on Mac and Linux, though.
