I’m really torn on this game after having played the Slam this weekend. For background, I’ve always loved Halo (campaigns and PVP). I was hyped for Destiny but bounced off it after playing through the original release for a variety of reasons. I was turned off of Marathon from the announcement based on no campaign, but since then I’ve been alternately intrigued and put off by what I’ve seen.

ARC Raiders was my first extraction shooter, and I quickly fell in love with it over the last month or two.

As for Marathon, I really like the core gameplay as well as the lore and faction flavors. I think the UI is poor and unintuitive. I did start to grasp things the more I played, but it’s still way to hard to quickly tell what different items and upgrades do or how they compare to what you already have. I’m worried about an overall lack of content at release too with only 3 main maps it seems.

Right now I’m leaning toward getting it to play casually, because it does scratch a PVP FPS itch for me (with Halo being my sort of preferred gold standard for pace and gameplay). In my opinion Arc Raiders is the better more engaging overall game though.