Marathon 2: Durandal Xbox 360 remake in the works for Xbox Live Arcade, until then download the Marathon Trilogy for free!
Before Halo Bungie also made other shooter games like Marathon. The Mac/PC Marathon Trilogy was a popular FPS series in the 90’s, that may now be seeing a return on Xbox 360’s download service Xbox Live Arcade.
The remake rumors caught fire after 1UP translated German website Xboxarchiv who said that Germany’s version of the Entertainment Software Ratings Board, Unterhaltungssoftware Selbstkontrolle (USK aka Support Software Self-Control), has listed Marathon: Durandal as an Xbox 360 product since June 12, 2007.
Marathon: Durandal
Publisher: Microsoft EPDC
Prufdatum: 12.06.2007 — USK Nr.: 18801/07
Sprache: englisch — System: Microsoft XBOX 360
Genre: Shooter
This isn’t a mix up with the original Mac/PC version, as there’s a separate 1996 listing for that.
Marathon 2 : Durandal
Publisher: FUNWARE c/o Up to date S.u.V. mbH
Prufdatum: 31.10.1996 — USK Nr.: 2169/96
Sprache: deutsch — System: PC/Mac-PC
Genre: Shooter
If you’re interested in playing the Marathon Trilogy, Bungie has made them available as a FREE download on trilogyrelease.bungie.org. So an Xbox 360 would have to include all three games upgraded to be worth any Microsoft Points.
This speedrun of the first levels shows Marathon 2:
