We began on Perimeter, the map tuned to supply the “best” expertise in Marathon, and spent the following quarter-hour trapped within the very first constructing we entered, preventing each single staff of participant “Runners” within the match.
It was GameSpot senior producer Jean-Luc Seipke’s very first match in Bungie’s on-line first-person extraction shooter, and it was nothing if not a trial by hearth. Along with our matchmade teammate, we battled down hallways and round corners, flanking and catching opponents out, dying and reviving each other again and again. We got here again from near-defeat again and again, hanging on by a thread.
At one level, with my weapons fully dry, I slipped an opponent by hopping over a railing to a decrease ground, solely to sneak again up the steps, discover them dealing with away, and knife them within the again till they died. One other time, an invisible Murderer character misplaced us in a cloud of smoke, and I jumped by some damaged home windows into the room the place we might final seen them, hoping to flank–only to search out them hiding in a nook, a claymore on the door, able to ambush my teammates. They by no means even noticed me as I machine-gunned them.
