Marathon's Re-Reveal Is A Lot More Popular Than The Trailer Which Caused Its Delay

Marathon's Re-Reveal Is A Lot More Popular Than The Trailer Which Caused Its Delay

From TheGamer (Written by Josh Coulson) on | OpenCritic

Marathon was supposed to launch in September, but for various reasons, Bungie's next live service venture still isn't here. It has now been revealed that Marathon's release date has been moved to March 2026, and those eagerly awaiting its arrival are warming up to its re-reveal far faster than they warmed up to the first look at its gameplay.

Bungie dropped a re-reveal for Marathon out of nowhere on Monday, confirming the game will now be here in March 2026. The 23-minute ViDoc shows off what exactly Bungie has been working on for the past few months, demonstrating how the studio has taken critique on board following earlier trailers and Marathon's initial playtests.

So far, more than 15,000 people have hit like on the new Marathon video, and while that is considerably less than the 24,000 likes its maligned gameplay reveal received eight months ago, it's the ratio that you need to pay attention to. While that gameplay reveal has more dislikes than likes - a staggering 29,000 - yesterday's ViDoc has just 3,000, which means the likes tally is currently outpacing its dislike equivalent at a rate of 5:1.

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