Arcade: Marathon: Durandal

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mad61190 — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 19:44:08 GMT

Downloading now and can't wait to play it. Played Marathon all the time on the pc and am glad it came to the 360 arcade

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ZEO CMF — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 19:44:08 GMT

w00t. Thanks Major

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Mike17032 — Sat, 04 Aug 2007 17:09:53 GMT

Wow Marathon? Thats awsome. For those bashing this game, it was fantastic for its time. And its also made by Bungie.

Its an old game, Doom era. But it added a lot of things that Doom didnt have at the time (a real storyline, aiming up and down, platform jumping). It really is a fantastic game.

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PWKWSFI — Sat, 04 Aug 2007 01:16:44 GMT

I like the Achievements and all the material that points to the Halo universe. That game's ok too, but I haven't played much yet. Anyone else get it? None of my friends have yet (hint hint).

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Loth — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 19:24:07 GMT

Uhm, for you people getting motion sickness from a video game... you should probably put your console away.

My god, I can't believe gamers have gotten so wussy.

waaah

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J23 — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 10:47:02 GMT

Is this game really that bad for motion sickeness? Can't you change turning speed in the Options? Can't you understand that it takes some work for Microsoft to succesfully wrangle Duke Nukem or Doom or whatever? Maybe there deals arent workin out or somethin.

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shinesevens — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 10:00:55 GMT

As someone who's in the more mature gaming bracket (late 30's) I love this kind of classic gaming. I played them to death first time round and to get them again for a modest amount of cash is great. But. Add me to the list who can't play this becuase of motion sickness. This is the first game in 29 years of me playing games that has made me sick. I played for 15 mins and had to go and lie down becuase I suddenly felt like vomiting. Can they not update this in some way to fix that?

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Toastman — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 13:51:47 GMT

The levels do get better for sure. THe demo should not have ended after the first level. Also it should have showcased survival mode because it is freaking SWEET!

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Asholay — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 12:57:16 GMT

Got motion sickness after about 10m of playing??? The scrolling was dreadful, the sprites lacklustre and everything in this game felt like a chore!!! Worst Game Ever...!

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LifeSong — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 11:51:21 GMT

Does anyone know if you can take more than one person per console onto Xbox Live with you? If so, do they need a gamertag? Halo allows you to take guests online, but what about Marathon? Anyone able to test this and let me know?

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Anthony — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 11:47:46 GMT

i agree about the sickness =) i was playing on an hd projector which makes it worse..... buy friend told me to go into game options and turn on headbob baaad move for some reason the XBLA title makes me dizzy/sick put the mac/pc one never did the game is like distorted hopefully a patch and also the fusion pistol is a seizure waiting to happen =(

but none the less love marathon always did

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J.Goodwin — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 11:37:09 GMT

Kinglink,

You have seen the articles online that Halo3 features four player online co-op with three playable races, right?

If not, you need to check the news sites while you're eating your cheerios in the morning.

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J.Goodwin — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 11:35:10 GMT

I Jimi B I,

I don't get motion sick playing FPS games, and this one made me ill last night. The view port is far too small on an SD TV. Maybe in HD it's better?

I was sorely disappointed. I'd like to see Strife or Hexen or something like that, games built on the revised Doom engine that featured RPG-like storylines.

I seriously advise anyone to play the trial before you plunk down your 800 points blindly like I did, because this game has been SERIOUSLY over-hyped.

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Digitalspirit — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 09:56:26 GMT

I'm just not into these old school games. Sure they were good at the time, but why would I want to play this sort of stuff on a machine of the 360's capabilities? I end up downloading them and turning them off after 30 seconds. If something like Quake were to appear then I would certainly be interested, but so far the XBLA content has disappointed and 800 points is far too much to pay. XBLA needs to be exploited with some more worthy or original material.

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Knuckles MetalMind — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 06:19:31 GMT

I didn´t like it at all. Textures are too big, sprites are too big... But then, there are just a few sprites for all that´s going on the screen, and the turning movement is too fast, which makes some people to have headache. I would prefer the game as it was, not this. You can´t just make all bigger and cleaner, and then leave 2 sprites per character, and get the turning so fast. It just ruins the game mechanics. I´m glad it wasn´t the same with Doom. I love when a game gets ported better, but not like this. If the turning speed was lower, and the characters got more sprites, then probably it would have been a lot better. You can´t updgrade without updgrading it all. That´s my point of view anyways.

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Levi — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 04:18:23 GMT

dude this game gives me a headache