In Marathon, A.I. Is Everywhere and Humanity Is an Anomaly
The New York Times • • technology
Key Points:
- The new game Marathon, developed by the creators of Halo and Destiny, features players as runners—consciousnesses transferred into synthetic bodies—on a mission to uncover treasure and secrets in a failed colony project from a century ago.
- The original Marathon series, launched in the mid-1990s for Macintosh, was a dark, sci-fi first-person shooter known for its cold, gray aesthetic and tense combat against alien invaders aboard a massive spaceship.
- Since the original release, the gaming landscape and public perception of artificial intelligence have drastically changed, with AI becoming an integral and accessible part of everyday life and gaming culture now mainstream.
- The contemporary Marathon game blends classic shooter mechanics inspired by Doom with a modern context where AI is no longer a distant concept but an inevitable reality embedded in various technologies.
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