Remake of Bungie’s FPS Trilogy for free

[Skud]

Go here and download if anybody's interested:-

Aleph One - Marathon Open Source

Basically the three games Marathon, Marathon 2: Durandal & Marathon Infinity have been remade by Aleph One development community.

For those that don’t know, the Marathon trilogy was released in the mid-nineties and has a lot in common with Bungie‘s more recent sci-fi shooter series. There was even rabid fan speculation that they shared the same universe with talk of rampant AIs and Mjolnir Mark Vs while Marathon had Mark IVs. While it has now been shown to be a totally different series, there are still plenty of hints, such as Halo 3′s terminals looking surprisingly like the Marathon logo.

The Aleph One engine is based off the Marathon 2 source code which was released in 1999. The community have spent the 12 years getting it to run on a multitude of systems as well as updating a number of features.

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Never heard of this series. Any Halo lover or veteran gamer here who had played the games or can give some insight?

 

[Tachyon1986]

Marathon is the spiritual predecessor to Halo , that's all I know from a friend that told me.

 

[topgear]

Nice find Skud and thanks for this.

Will get them and play them and post some feedback as well if possible

 

[cyborg47]

Marathon is the prequel to Halo , that's all I know from a friend that told me.

No its not.

 

[Tachyon1986]

No its not.

My bad, I meant spiritual predecessor. The whole sci-fi theme of Halo was inspired from this.

 

[axes2t2]

Thanks for the link.

 

[Skud]

You are welcome. Too many games, yet to try this.

 

[topgear]

^^ Played the games and it felt like classic Doom - the gfx are not good but playing this brought back some old memories of some similar games and it was lot of fun