| Marathon | |
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CD sleeve artwork featuring the ship's crest of the UESC Marathon, the game's setting | |
| Developer(s) | Bungie |
| Publisher(s) | Bungie |
| Designer(s) | |
| Composer(s) | Alex Seropian |
| Series | Marathon |
| Platform(s) | |
| Release | Macintosh December 21, 1994 Windows[1] December 1, 2011 Linux[1] December 1, 2011 iOS July 7, 2011 |
| Genre(s) | First-person shooter |
| Mode(s) | Single-player, multiplayer |
Marathon is a first-person shootervideo game developed and published by Bungie, and released in December 1994 for the Apple Macintosh. The game takes place several centuries into the future in outer space and sets the player as a security officer attempting to defeat an alien invasion aboard a colony ship named the Marathon.
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Marathon has a well-developed storyline that is also an essential element of its gameplay, which distinguishes it from many other first-person shooters released in the 1990s that devote minimal attention to plot in favor of faster, more action-oriented gameplay. Marathon has a single-player scenario as well as a multiplayer deathmatch mode, through which up to eight players can compete against each other on the same computer network, via individually linked computers. This functionality increased anticipation for Marathon prior to release, and won the game the Macworld Game Hall of Fame Award for the best multiplayer game in 1995.
Marathon is the first game in a series of three games collectively known as the Marathon Trilogy, which also includes its two sequels, Marathon 2: Durandal and Marathon Infinity, released in 1995 and 1996 respectively. In 1996, Bungie completed Super Marathon, a port of Marathon and Marathon 2 to Apple's short-lived Apple Bandai Pippin video game console.[2]
Bungie released the source code of Marathon 2 in 1999 shortly before being acquired by Microsoft, which enabled the development of the Marathon Open Source Project and its enhanced version of the Marathon engine, called Aleph One allowing to play the game on modern versions of Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux. The trilogy itself was released by Bungie as freeware in 2005.
Gameplay takes place in a real-time, 3D-rendered world of ceilings and floors of various heights and widths, all viewed from a first-person perspective. All surfaces in the game are texture mapped and have dynamic lighting. The player assumes the role of a nameless security officer aboard a large colony ship called the Marathon, constructed from Mars' moon Deimos. The player controls the movement of their character primarily through use of the keyboard. Using assignable keys, they can move forward and backward, turn left or right, sidestep left or right, look up, down or forward, and glance left or right. Marathon also features free look, allow the player to use the mouse to fire weapons and rotate their character's view. Marathon was one of the earliest computer games to employ free look and give the player the ability to look up or down.[3] The game interface includes an overhead map, a motion sensor indicating the positions and movements of both enemies and allied characters through red triangles and green squares respectively, and bars displaying the player's current shield and oxygen levels.
The player progresses through the levels in sequence, killing enemy creatures and avoiding numerous obstacles while trying to survive. While levels are completed in a fixed order, many are non-linear and require extensive exploration to complete. Obstacles include dark and narrow passages, ceilings that crush the player, pits of harmful molten material or coolant, locked doors or platforms that must be activated by remote switches, and puzzles that may involve precise timing and speed to complete successfully. Some levels have low-gravity, oxygen-free environments and/or magnetic fields that interfere with the player's motion sensor. Rather than restoring lost health by picking up power-ups as in many first-person shooters, the player instead replenishes their shields and oxygen through activating recharge stations placed in walls; if either drops below zero, they die. Upon dying, the player revives at the last save point. The player can only save their game by locating and then activating a pattern buffer device. These devices are placed infrequently throughout the game's levels and some even lack them entirely.
Unique among first-person shooters of its time, Marathon has a detailed, complex plot that is fundamental to gameplay and player advancement. Computer terminals placed in the openings of walls in the game serve as the primary means by which this plot is relayed. The player accesses these terminals to interface with the artificial intelligences of the Marathon, who provide information regarding the player's current objective. In most cases, the player must use specific terminals to advance to the next level of the game (via teleportation). While some levels simply require the player to reach the endpoint, on others the player must first accomplish specific tasks before they can move on, such as retrieving a specific item, flipping a switch, exploring all or part of a level, exterminating all alien creatures, or securing areas populated by human characters. Some terminals that do not need to be accessed to complete the game but still may contain additional plot information, such as engineering documents, crew diaries, or conversations between the ship's artificial intelligences. Some levels have secret terminals that are often difficult to locate, a few of which contain easter egg messages from the game's designers.
In addition to its main single player scenario, Marathon also features a multiplayer deathmatch mode that can accommodate eight players on the same local area network. One user (the 'gatherer') initiates a game invitation to the computers of other players ('joiners'). Competing together in teams or individually, players score points by killing opponents and lose points by being killed by opponents; the player or team with the best kill-to-death ratio wins the match. Matches conclude after either a particular number of minutes or kills, as configured ahead of time by the gatherer when initiating the match.
Marathon's game files contain ten levels for the multiplayer mode. In addition to being inaccessible by single players, these levels also distinguish themselves from the main game environments by their designs, intended to facilitate smooth multiplayer gameplay: smaller overall level sizes, spacious areas, faster doors and platforms, fewer aliens, heavier weaponry, multiple predetermined player spawn points, strategic placement of power-ups, and an absence of pattern buffers and terminals. When a player is killed in multiplayer, they can respawn immediately at a random spawn point unless the gatherer has enabled penalties for being killed or committing suicide, which require the player to wait for a period of ten seconds or fifteen seconds respectively before reviving themselves.
Marathon's multiplayer was one of its most anticipated features prior to release and won Marathon the Macworld Game Hall of Fame Award for the best network game of 1995.[4] Bungie reportedly intended to add more multiplayer styles (such as cooperative play across the single player scenario), but could not due to time constraints.[citation needed] Many of the concepts and levels that could not be included in the final product because of a lack of time to implement them were included in Marathon 2.[4] Bungie has reported that the development of Marathon was delayed significantly due to time spent playing the deathmatch.[4] The code for multiplayer was written almost entirely by Alain Roy who reportedly received a Quadra 660AV in compensation for his efforts.[5] According to Jason Jones, the network code is packet-based and uses the DDP, or Datagram Delivery Protocol to transfer information between each machine.[6]
Marathon primarily takes place in 2794 aboard the UESC Marathon, a large Earth colony ship constructed from the Martian moon Deimos. The Marathon's mission is to travel to the Tau Ceti system and build a colony on its fourth planet. The player's character is an unnamed security officer assigned to the Marathon. The narrative is presented to the player using messages on computer terminals scattered throughout the game's levels. These messages include crew logs, historical documents, and other records, but principally include conversations that the player character has with three artificial intelligences (AIs) that run UESC Marathon: Leela, Durandal, and Tycho.
At the start of the game, the player character is aboard a shuttle returning from the colony to Marathon when an alien ship attacks the system. The officer makes his way to Marathon to find that the aliens used an electromagnetic pulse to disable much of the ship. Of the three AIs, only Leela is functional, and she guides the officer in a counter-strike against the aliens and to restore the other AIs and key systems. Leela learns that Durandal (one of the shipboard AIs) had been in contact with the aliens prior to their engagement with Marathon. The alien race, known as the S'pht, are being forced to fight by the Pfhor, an insectoid-like race. Leela soon discovers that Durandal had become 'rampant' before the attack, and is able to think freely for himself. Leela aids the officer to disable Durandal's access to vital Marathon systems while sending a warning message to Earth, but in turn Durandal has the Pfhor send more forces to attack the Marathon, ultimately kidnapping the security officer. Leela intercedes to free the officer, but warns him that the S'pht attack has nearly destroyed her systems. The officer races to complete a bomb in the ship's engineering rooms, hoping it will force the Pfhor and S'pht to leave, but it is too late as Leela is 'killed' by the S'pht, and Durandal takes over, forcing the officer to continue to follow his orders to stay alive.
Durandal has the officer repair the ship's transporters, allowing him to go aboard the alien Pfhor vessel. Inside, while fighting off the Pfhor, the officer discovers a large cybernetic organism that the Pfhor use to control the S'pht. The officer destroys the organism, and guided by Durandal, the S'pht revolt against the Pfhor, first on their ship, and then aboard the Marathon. With most of the Pfhor threat gone, Durandal announces his intention to transfer himself to the Pfhor ship, which the S'pht have control of, and leave with them. As a parting gift, Durandal reveals that Leela was never fully destroyed, and the S'pht release their grasp on her before departing. As the alien ship departs the system, the officer works with Leela to clear the last remaining Pfhor aboard Marathon before assessing the full damage that has been done.
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Marathon was a commercial success, with sales above 100,000 units before the release of Marathon 2.[10] It ultimately surpassed 150,000 sales by October 1995.[11] As with all Bungie titles before Halo: Combat Evolved, its lifetime sales fell below 200,000 units by 2002.[12]
Next Generation reviewed the Macintosh version of the game, rating it four stars out of five, and stated that 'This comes highly recommended.'[9]MacUser named Marathon the best action game of 1995, ahead of Doom II.[13]
In 1996, Computer Gaming World named Marathon the 64th best game ever. The editors wrote, 'This 3D action-fest was a big reason all the Mac users kept saying 'DOOM what?' '[14]
Gaming historians have referred to Marathon as the Macintosh's answer to the PC's Doom, i.e. a first person shooter killer app.[15] In 2012, Time named it one of the 100 best video games ever released.[16]
In 1996, Bungie completed a port of Marathon to Apple's short-lived Pippin video game console. The port was released as part of Super Marathon, a compilation of Marathon and Marathon 2: Durandal which was published and distributed by Bandai rather than Bungie themselves.[2]Super Marathon bears the distinction of being the first console game developed by Bungie, predating Oni and Halo: Combat Evolved.[17]
In 2000, Bungie was bought by Microsoft, financially fueling the Halo franchise. The concepts of an AI working with an armed player character continued from the roots laid out in the Marathon series.
On July 7, 2011, a port of Marathon for Apple's iPad was released for free on the iTunes App Store.
Table of Contents
Gaming has become the passion of the young generation as well as for adults too. Everybody wants to do any activity in each minute.
Nobody wants to waste their time that’s why whenever they get free time they immediately take out their smartphones and start watching any movie or drama, reading an article or blog, interacting with family members or friends, or playing any game.
Previously, that was quite difficult to play games anywhere as we couldn’t take our computers along with us, but now it is straightforward because of the web browser. Now web browser has taken the place of the operating system, and here we are talking about all web browsers those have made life interesting for everyone.
Browser FPS (First-Person Shooter) games allow you to enjoy your favorite games anywhere while traveling, lying down on the bed, in class anywhere. All you need to do is open any web browser on your cell phone and starts playing you’re the most favorite game through it — no need to install any specific software for that.
If you are not aware of new latest web browser games, then let me allow you to tell 10 best browser-based FPS games of 2019. All you need to do is be with me to keep reading this article. So here we go.
Superhot is a unique, wholesome, and fun FPS browser game which has stylized graphics that attracts FPS lovers. This game has added simple visual language to make this game simple and best in FPS genre.
In this game, you that mean first-person shooter (in the game)stand in the arena and have to defend yourself all alone with the enemies. You will have many weapon options and diverse resources which you can use according to the situation and enemies of the game.
There is no renewing health bars and suitably ammo dropping option. All you need to do is play carefully and use your brains that where you want which weapon you should grab and which resource you should avail to save yourself by shooting, using cutting weapons or moving by a hurricane of slow-motion bullets. The game has movie-like the beauty of the fight and is flexible gameplay.
This would be shocking if you are one of those people who don’t know or haven’t heard about Quake Live/Arena. This is a renowned and well-known first-person shooter (FPS) browser game of the century. This game has its audience, which appreciates and loves to play.
This game offers you two options either plays it on the browser or Steam according to your convenience. Quake Live has sci-fi characters which are in player VS player arena those got power-ups along with various weapons to use in games for fighting purpose.
All you have to do is choose your best skill and pick it from the game to play logically and be the topper of this game.
Reloaded is the same browser-based FPS like Firestorm version of the game but it has larger maps. Most of the people don’t like Firestorm a lot because of the difference from Red Crucible 2. This game won’t be challenging to play for those who played Counter-Strike or Critical Ops. It is effortless to play this game. Just get register yourself, and you can play it.
After that, you can choose a team and start playing the game. You need to increase the cash in the game so you can buy weapons and equipment to defend yourself from your enemies. If you don’t understand the game if you are the beginner, then you can check essential training feature on the game which will help you out to understand the game.
Reloaded reminds you Red Crucible somehow but it targets the broad audience. You can enjoy playing this game on a slow system as it would be easy to access for you.
Warmers: Red versus Blue is an epic first-person shooter game for most of the people. This was the late 90s game like Counter-Strike and Quake. Overall this is not the attractive game of the first-person shooters, but it offers some other stuff those makes it a fun game.
Leader board and competitive multiplayer are the confounding factors of this game. Warmers offers an active and thriving community which gives you a choice to play with the same level of players as you is.
It is quite lovely that you can play this game at any time of the day or night and guess what? You can find you, matching partner, any time quickly. Unity web player is required to play this game, and the graphics are not high-quality; that’s why you need a slow system to play this game.
If you are fond of the multiplayer match, then Rush Team is your sort of play. It allows you to experience multiplayer factor and you will go to love this best browser first-person shooter (FPS) game.
This is a straightforward game. Directly you can start playing a game without compromising on necessary stuff that would be required while playing the game. Team factor makes this game exclusive in FPS games as this requires a team effort.
All you need to do is you have to play this game with your team to accomplish your goals around the map. Your goals would be similar like capturing the flag, searching, destroying, holding the objectives, and other stuff like that.
Or you need to kill your enemies or their team with your active online team. Overall, Rush Team offers you lots of fun online and allows you to make friends too. So enjoy this game.
Contract Wars has proved it the best browser FPS game in every year. The theme of the game is Russian multiplayer free-to-play title set in which private military companies lead in the world. Along with the military, there is a political touch included in the game, which shows the complications of this relationship.
The Contract Wars is the mixture of straightforward first-person shooter action along with light RPG essentials and a healthy dosage of strategic battle. You can choose the latest weapons from given ample selection that would require in different situations of the game according to the various job and gameplay style.
Shotgun allows you to be close and personal with your enemy or kill your enemy by using the sniper rifle in the game. The choice is yours how you would conquer your rivals. You will get credit points or any skill on each kill of your enemy or any victory as a reward. Using these points, you can buy weapons, get a chance to have a new skill, and modify the characters and so on.
For logical decisions which you and your friends will apply as a team in the game offers you to receive awards for that. You need to learn how to play the game in a group with other players and know your strong points against another kinfolk. Seasoned players have the option of hardcore modes, or they can join the privileged Black Division group.
The Red Crucible: Firestorm is a sequel of Red Crucible 2 which is known as the highly praised 3D browser-based FPS game. The Red Crucible: Firestorm consists of an ample number of weapons and vehicles such as trucks, tanks, jets, and helicopters.
The game offers big entertainment to the audience as it has six gameplay modes; such as survivor, team deathmatch resources, team deathmatch armored, and look for and demolish territories and defeat. On a single map, up to 24 players can play on the meanwhile.
It does not end here. Players have the liberty to choose their favorite battle role, which they want to assume, such as drivers, pilots, snipers, and individual assault units. The more you complete the levels of the game, the more opportunities and better options of weapons you get.
There is a new camouflage pattern available that you can use in the game. It would help you blend in with the environment and gives you a new range that enhances your long-range accurateness. You can join other players to discuss your team strategies of the game.
Set the graphics on the medium so you can easily play the game as there is a lack of optimization. Sometimes those players who have high-end systems struggle to maintain the frame rate steady when all members of two teams that mean 24 players are busy in the war at the meanwhile.
As the name sounds same, Global Strike has standard features of Counter-Strike and Counter-Strike: Global Offense. In these three games, players are supposed to grow cat-like reflexes to succeed in the close quarter’s fight.
Using Global Strike is quite easy. You don’t need to install Java for playing this game, and this makes the Global Strike world’s first non-plugin 3D first-person shooter browser game. All you have to do open the game and click the start button then you can sign in through your any social media account, or you can make a brand-new account of yours by your email address.
NGames is the developer of the Global Strike and knows as the self-optimizing 3D engine. Let’s not go into the technicalities of the games that would be enough for you to know this that this game runs tremendously smoothly even when many tasks are going on in the game. The graphics used in the Global Strike are a notch below, but gameplay will surely look at the old-school images.
If I would say that Critical Ops is one of the best browser fps games, then this would not be wrong. Critical Ops has fast-paced 3D FPS browser which double the fun of playing the game. Many other modern games offer perks, unlockable gifts, and light RPG elements, but Critical Ops has old-school style.
Critical Ops is similar to the original Counter-Strike and Quake 3. Like in those games, the player has to remember the maps and has a control on the set. You could face a hard time if you play with skillful players in multiplayer FPS games, but you have a chance to play with beginners if you want to have a grip on the game in the Critical Ops. You can discuss your game strategies with other players if you join the server.
You are not supposed to have high expectations from the Critical Ops as you can see some bugs and optimizing problems as the game is at Alpha stage. But the game has 4.3 stars rating which is the proof that people enjoy playing this game in the early days of this game expansion.
Critical ops can be played on the web browser or downloaded on any capable Android device. And if you have enough skills to play this game well, then you can join Europe and North America e-sports leagues and can win some money.
Wolfenstein 3D FPS game is the debatably started, and now it is formally accessible as a web browser game. The developer of Wolfenstein 3D has released 1992 FPS shooter for free online on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of this game.
Wolfenstein 3D gives you a chance to play the role of American spy of Polish origin that was William “B.J.” Isn’t it interesting? In this game, you are supposed to conquer the Nazi empire, and for this first, you need to run away from the Castle Wolfenstein. In Castle Wolfenstein, the Blazkowicz is locked up when he was trying to search the plans for Operation Eisenfaust.
This game happens on the flat plane, and then ID Software would initial begin verticality with the release of the first Doom game. The area and rooms separated by walls themed after Nazi bunkers and buildings.
As you cross the levels of the games, you will become dominant and find new great weapons those help you to battle with your enemies. This is a simple idea, but it has influenced the first person shooter genre to this day.
Above you have gone through the details of 10 best browser-based FPS games of 2019. These games are capable of entertain you and make your life enjoyable by giving you a chance to make online friends and to play with them as a team.
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They all are free online games, so if you don’t find any game exciting, you can switch from one game to the other with no trouble.
If you want to suggest any other browser fps game, then you can let us know by commenting in the comment box below.
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