Yeah, I remember that, and occasionally still mourn the direction the game finally took. What we got is great, but I remember reading my first magazine article about it, in which the weapons included everything from machetes and tanks to orbital bombardment. But I don't remember it being set in the Marathon universe. Just a similar type of concept.
: That's how Halo began. A Myth-like game set in the distant future of the
: Marathon universe. I think there's some videos or screenshots of those
: early concept builds somewhere...