Marathon: Resurrection 2.0 Released

Andy Chalk

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Marathon: Resurrection 2.0 Released


After seven years of development, Team Unpfhorgiven has released its Marathon total conversation modification [http://resurrection.bungie.org/news.shtml] for Unreal Tournament.

Based on the Apple Macintosh [http://www.bungie.net/], Marathon: Resurrection is intended to bring the classic title to a new and wider audience on a more universal and modern platform. The creators describe the mod as a "loosely based replica of the original Marathon," and note that while they have made some additions and "left out a few small things, otherwise this release stays true to the original."

Marathon: Resurrection includes the complete single-player game, with 27 solo maps and new chapter screens, as well as 16 new multiplayer maps, new monsters and weapons, high-resolution textures, new and remastered music, and more. The mod requires Unreal Tournament [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unreal_tournament]version 436 to run.

Released in 1994, the original Marathon 2 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marathon_%28computer_game%29]was released for Windows 95 in 1996 but was given little attention, and the series is still looked upon primarily as Mac software. Bungie released the Marathon 2 source code in 1999, and the entire Marathon trilogy as freeware in 2004.

More information is available at the Marathon: Resurrection [http://resurrection.bungie.org/index.html] site.


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