“Marathon’s considerable beauty is matched only by its clinical brutality”
“You play as a Runner whose consciousness has been uploaded into an artificial body. With this body-swapping premise, Runners technically escape death, yet you would be hard-pushed to call their particular type of immortality desirable. These gun-toting bio-cybernetic beings are contract-chasing freelancers, locked into an endless purgatorial fight on Tau Ceti IV – grist for the mill in the cosmic wilderness”
“Like the social deduction game Among Us did during the paranoid pandemic years, it mirrors the times that produced it. We live in a mean-spirited, cut-throat era, in which too many world events feel driven by pernicious self-interest. Here, then, is a game that seems to give players a way to work through this cynical state of affairs. Either you are the one pulling the trigger – bang! – or you’re bleeding out with a mouthful of dirt”