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  developer Bungie Software
  publisher Bungie Software
  version 12
  released December 21 , 1994
  genre First-person Shooter
  modes Single Player <br />Multiplayer ( Deathmatch )
  platforms Mac OS
  input Keyboard , Mouse


''Marathon'' is the first title in the '' Marathon '' series of science fiction First-person Shooter computer games from Bungie Software . It was released on December 21 , 1994 .


STORY


Set in the year 2794 , the game places the player as a security officer (who is secretly a military cyborg) dispatched to respond to a distress signal sent from the enormous human colony ship called the ''Marathon'', orbiting the newly colonized planet Tau Ceti IV.

Throughout the game, the player defends the ship and its crew and colonists from a race of alien slavers called the Pfhor. As he fights, he witnesses interactions between the three shipboard artificial intelligences: Leela, Durandal, and Tycho. From these interactions he discovers that all is not as it seems aboard the ''Marathon''.

In the first part of the game, the player follows orders from the ship operations AI, Leela. After executing a series of defensive actions, contact between the ''Marathon'' and the human colony is lost. It is revealed that Durandal, another AI onboard the Marathon, has gone Rampant and his behavior on the ship begins causing danger to the crew members.

Disabling Leela, Durandal ''steals'' the security officer and uses him to free a race of enslaved, cybernetic organisms called the S'pht from their Pfhor masters. With the S'pht in revolt and allied with Durandal, the Pfhor lose control of their ship and are defeated.

There is some speculation that the story of ''Marathon'' may have been loosely based on that of the Science Fiction Novel Marathon by David Alexander Smith . {Link without Title}


Chapters


The game consists of twenty-six levels and is divided into six chapters.
  • Arrival - The player boards the U.E.S.C. ''Marathon''. Under the direction of Leela he collects some weapons and three replacement circuit boards needed to activate the ship's automated defense drones.

  • Counterattack - Once the drones are enabled, the player blocks Durandal's access to them and alerts Earth of the Pfhor. At the end, he encounters Durandal for the first time after being briefly kidnapped by him.

  • Reprisal - Leela begins malfunctioning to the point where she becomes unstable. Consisting of only two levels, this is the shortest chapter of the story.

  • Durandal - Durandal begins to take control of the player. Three of the four levels to which he is sent seem to have no apparent objective other than to reach the end, and Durandal begins communicating with the player in a series of long, philosophical talks about his rampancy and the abuse by a scientist which engendered it.

  • The Pfhor - The player explores the Pfhor ship to retrieve information about it and kills the cyborg Pfhor that controls the S'pht. All but two levels take place on the ship.

  • Rebellion - With the aid of the S'pht and the now recovered Leela, the player eliminates the remaining threat aboard the ''Marathon''. Durandal transfers himself to the captured Pfhor ship and leaves to "see the galaxy".




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