This week, it was announced that Marathon is returning to the Apple platform. Sort of.
Developed by hobbyist coder Daniel Blezek and officially blessed by Bungie, Marathon will be seeing a release on Apple’s “magical device,” returning the game to hardware from the company with which Bungie made their bones.
Blezek reportedly began developing the port in 2010, shortly after the iPad was released, and showed it to Bungie for review.
As a special treat, the game will be released free, as a gift to gamers as part of Bungie’s 20th anniversary. According to Blezek, the game runs at 30 frames per second and uses touch controls that approximate the original’s keyboard commands.
The exact release date was not announced, but likely will shortly.
No iPhone/iPod?
I loved the game at the time (especially dual wielding shotguns as in the photo, which were reloaded Terminator 2 style), but it hasn't aged particularly well. makes sense that it would be free, too, the source code was release a few years back.
Yeah playing Marathon 2's XBLA release demonstrated that, while I still like the game, FPS games have come a long ways. Still I will definitely pick this up for my iPad, what with the low low price tag and all.
Yeah can't beat free so I'll give it a go as well.