Marathon’s rapidly rising review scores also boost its Game Awards chances

Marathon’s rapidly rising review scores also boost its Game Awards chances

The Marathon bounceback has begun. Bungie’s new game has been through quite the reputational rollercoaster already. An exciting debut, tempered with a lack of enthusiasm for its demanding and highly specific genre, extraction shooter. A decent press preview, followed by brutal feedback from its first public playtests, followed by a rethink and a delay. A general sense that Bungie had wandered too far into a hardcore space, and that Halo and Dest…