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\nMarathon, the 1994 video game that marked Halo and Destiny developer Bungie’s first foray into the world of first-person sci-fi shooters, is – as Bungie previously said it would be<\/a> – now available on Steam for free. And the remaining two titles in the series are due at a later date.\n<\/p>\n

\nMarathon Classic, as the Steam release<\/a> is known, has been developed by the team behind Aleph One – a fan-created engine based on the Marathon 2 source code – and promises “authentic gameplay using the original [Marathon] data files”. However, it also features optional widescreen HUD support, 3D filtering\/perspective, positional audio, and 60+ fps interpolation, “just in case,” as the team puts it, “the original is too<\/em> authentic.”\n<\/p>\n

“Alien forces have boarded the colony ship UESC Marathon in the Tau Ceti system, in orbit around humanity’s first interstellar colony,” reads the scene-setting blurb for Marathon Classic. “The situation is dire, and as a security officer assigned to the Marathon, your duty is to defend the ship and its crew from the alien threat.”\n<\/p>\n

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Marathon, the 1994 video game that marked Halo and Destiny developer Bungie’s first foray into the world of first-person sci-fi shooters, is – as Bungie previously said it would be – now available on Steam for free. And the remaining two titles in the series are due at a later date. Marathon Classic, as the Steam release is known, has been developed by the team behind Aleph One – a fan-created engine based on the Marathon 2 source code – and promises “authentic gameplay using the original [Marathon] data files”. However, it also features optional widescreen HUD support, 3D filtering\/perspective, positional audio, and 60+ fps interpolation, “just in case,” as the team puts it, “the original is too authentic.” “Alien forces have boarded the colony…<\/p>\n

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