- Marathon has debuted with a brutal 4.7 user score on Metacritic.
- Players have heavily criticised the title’s UI, saying it makes things very hard to understand.
- Critic reviews for the Extraction shooter have been delayed for the time being, as Bungie has requested outlets to wait until late March.
After more than a year of controversy, Marathon finally launched on PC, PS5, and Xbox Series consoles this weekend, debuting with a rather underwhelming concurrent player peak on Steam. The extraction shooter could’t even manage to hit even 100k concurrent users on the platform.
Bungie’s latest title hasn’t turned out to be a failure like Concord as many expected, reaching the top 10 of the Steam best-sellers chart. However, Marathon has failed to meet Sony’s expectations so far, especially on the critical front.
Why It Matters: For a game like Marathon, with bad PR dictating its development cycle, a good critical uplift was necessary to give it a shot at success.
Marathon has received highly negative reviews from fans on Metacritic, debuting with an astonishing 4.7 user score on the platform. Players have criticised the FPS title’s UI and its gameplay loop, saying the extraction shooter gets uninteresting after a couple of hours.
The UI has been the focus of a majority of negative reviews, with gamers suggesting that it’s hard to understand anything in Marathon thanks to the design.
Interestingly, the critic scores for the Bungie title haven’t hit Metacritic yet, as the developer requested reviewers to withhold their opinion on Marathon until the end of March, when more content arrives in the game.
On the other hand, however, the extraction shooter is doing better on Steam, sitting at a 90% extremly positive approval rating. Marathon’s user score on the PlayStation Store is also a hefty 4.7 out of 5, improving over its average rating during the open beta.
Regardless, the Bungie FPS isn’t off to the best start critically and commercially, as Sony would have expected a healthier user count from Marathon.
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Shameer Sarfaraz has previously worked for eXputer as a Senior News Writer for several years. Now with Tech4Gamers, he loves to devotedly keep up with the latest gaming and entertainment industries. He has a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science and years of experience reporting on games. Besides his passion for breaking news stories, Shahmeer loves spending his leisure time farming away in Stardew Valley. VGC, IGN, GameSpot, Game Rant, TheGamer, GamingBolt, The Verge, NME, Metro, Dot Esports, GameByte, Kotaku Australia, PC Gamer, and more have cited his articles.
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