/-/S'pht-Translator-Active/-/

	Tomb Raider Chronicles ~ Marathon Infinity?
	Posted By: Loren Petrich	Date: 7/26/01 2:45 p.m.
	It's hard to find any first-person shooter or similar third-person game with a premise or backstory even half as imaginative as Marathon's, at least IMO, but there are a few examples that almost make it, and I think I've found a few examples. Back to my main subject. I've just finished TRC, and I am struck with some of its similarities to Marathon Infinity. Here goes: * The previous game had ended in a triumph marred by disaster. -- Moo: Marathon 2: A crushing defeat of the Pfhor fleet marred by the Pfhor using the Trih Xeem on Lh'owon's sun. -- TRC: TR Last Revelation: Lara imprisons the god Set in the Great Pyramid, but she falls into a pit on the way out. * The game features looking back into time. -- Moo: You relieve the events of Marathon 2 in different timelines. -- TRC: Some of Lara's old friends have reminiscences of some of Lara's adventures, which you then experience. * The game features an effort to undo that disaster. -- Moo: One hopes to find a timeline that does not feature a successfully-used Trih Xeem or some other such Pfhor triumph. -- TRC: One of Lara's friends is in Egypt, searching for her in the Great Pyramid. * The game has some levels where you must evade enemies that you cannot hurt. -- Moo: The invisible-Spht level in "Where are monsters in dreams", and the beginning of "By Committee". -- TRC: Some levels where you appear as 16-year-old Lara on an Irish island haunted by ghosts and demons. * The game comes with editing tools. -- Moo: Forge and Anvil. -- TRC: The "Room Editor" for levels and a few small utilities * The game is something of an afterthought, but one that took on a life of its own. * Its creators wanted to move onward to fancier projects -- Moo: Bungie decided to create "The Giant Bloody War Game", which became the Myth series; Double Aught went on to work on its ill-fated "Duality" project. -- TRC: Some TR-ish game with a fancier engine that will not have the constraint of having to run on the original Playstation, as all the TR's have done. * Where are they now? -- Moo: Bungie is now working on the Marathon-ish Halo. Myth has been taken over by Mumbo Jumbo, which is now working on Myth 3. DA is now broken up. -- TRC: Core Design, TR's creators, are still working on what they've codenamed "Tomb Raider: Next Generation"; however, they have produced several other games, and they are working on one which might interest some of you people: "Project Eden". It's set in a future overpopulated Earth, and one day, something bad happens to the "Real Meat" factory...

Problems? Suggestions? Comments? Email maintainer@bungie.org Marathon's Story Forum is maintained with WebBBS 5.12.