Marathon: Aleph One

eMTe · Post by **eMTe** » Sun Oct 19, 2008 21:46

You're a security officer defending giant spaceship Marathon from aliens, unveiling the bigger plot behind what seems to be simple attack from outside.

First game in Marathon series (followed by Durandal and Infinity), formerly released for Macintosh only, now available on PC via Aleph One engine, based on Durandal. Aleph One supports all three games and many additional scenarios.

Developer of original: Bungie Software

Aleph One project site

http://source.bungie.org/

Downloads:

http://source.bungie.org/get/

First click on proper OS and download Aleph, than choose one of scenarios and copy it to Aleph folder.

eMTe · Post by **eMTe** » Sun Feb 22, 2009 18:33

Boy, is this game atmospheric. Even if I played only first level so far and enemies look like paper toys. Oldie feel to it.

Strange thing for fps: you cant jump. Dont look for missing key!

eMTe · Post by **eMTe** » Sun Feb 22, 2009 22:48

I do believe we should treat sequels and original Marathon as one game. They werent originally and still arent one game, but all are very similar, share the story and thx to Aleph One there are now great additional scenarios. Another thing is that to play all original and new games you have to download Aleph One engine first and only then install the actual game. So Aleph makes, more or less, one game from them all. besides, it's easier to have them all in one place, for practical reasons.

Tell me what you think and I'll rewrite the first post.

Post by **Chroelle** » Tue Feb 24, 2009 10:55

I say go if they are similar!

eMTe · Post by **eMTe** » Tue Feb 24, 2009 23:54

I say go play and decide only later! I may trick you, because I like this game and it reminds me of best oldies in genre. Especially one level in Tempus Irae which is obviously patterned upon sewer level in Dark Forces, arguably best fps ever made. Fps hater has spoken.

eMTe · Post by **eMTe** » Sat Feb 28, 2009 23:26

I tidied up first post and left info for first part of the series for now.

Read original manual to understand what's going on exactly on Marathon ship.

http://archives2.bungie.org/manuals/Marathon_Manual.pdf

Not sure if this is better than Doom, but it's no less scary and claustrophobic. If it were released for PC it would be an instant hit.