Against a justice remix, Bungie announced almost two years ago MarathonHis first game from the beginning of the franchise Destination 10 years before. A small event, casually, for this study now in the hands of PlayStation.
But from its initial announcement and several tumults within its developmental workforce, Marathon Changed and returned, stronger, since September 23, 2025 on PC, the Xbox and PlayStation 5 series while a game game was shown on Saturday night, Tech & Co could discover the game more in depth a few days before. And he already has an idea of revenge desired by PlayStation from the failure of the ambitious ConcordIn August 2024, which had only lived for fifteen days.
Explore, survive, flee
Marathon It is presented as a “PVPVE Extraction Shooter” game, in other words, it is a cooperative shooting game in the first playable person in the three players team. In different maps, we will face other players and enemies administered by AI for a single goal: to recover a maximum of objects, weapons and improvements to return the next part stronger.
These parts, also called “races”, with a maximum duration of 30 minutes, work in three stages: first, we will have to explore the card in which we are, then recover objects, weapons and improvements, and then run to very specific areas.
During all this time, you can die, killed by a player or an enemy of the game, which can then recover everything you have accumulated so far.
If he dies without being able to extract it, he loses everything and must start again. The principle may seem frustrating, but is compensated by a system of objectives, a maximum by the part, which can still reward it in case of execution failure.
A successful artistic direction
In principle, Marathon take the main principles of the “dark zone” mode of The divisionor other successful games, including Tarkov escape.
But Bungie is determined to make a difference thanks to the visual aspect of his game, which is far away from the standards. We had already seen it in the first trailer, but when we played MarathonWe discovered a fluorescent and ultra colored universe, but also very sterile. The study provides a seasonal system, as in any game “in the service” whose objective is to benefit from regularly more or less important updates, for several years.
It is simple: Marathon He is sublime in his artistic direction. Everything is done to project immediately in a unique universe of its kind, that of Tau Ceti IV. As usual, Bungie plans to offer a scenario that will reveal during the months, while players will have to find certain elements well hidden in the cards, and that refer directly to the previous episodes of the saga saga Marathonlaunched in the early 90s.
Besides, Marathon You can have several elements to bring diversity, including a class system that takes the name of “runners.” There will be six at the launch on September 23, including one with a shield, another that can scan an area, a particularly fast third and a room that can camouflage. A team can only be composed of three players as much as possible, so it will be necessary to make decisions according to their way of playing.
PlayStation Revenge On Concord
In the letters, the dynamic events and the effects of the weather will shake the environmental calm, and we can see from afar when an opposing team wants to leave the area, it will have 30 seconds to wait to perpetuate its departure … or be killed. For corporations, we can bring our teammates back to life, but not betray them, which is not worse.
Obviously it will be necessary to verify, once the game was launched, if it has all its promises, but Marathon It seems to keep the right end while PlayStation is still looking for its service game, the blow that will offer you good financial health to perpetuate larger projects.
The challenge remains important, however: Marathon In fact, you will pay, not a free game, and also contain micro transactions. As ConcordThey cost 40 euros, more than promises will be needed to transform the test. To guarantee an exemplary launch, Bungie provides an alpha test by the end of April 2025 and a series of beta sessions during the summer.
Marathonin the Xbox, PC and PlayStation 5 series of September 23, 2025.
Source: BFM TV
