: What makes Infinity nice for speed-running, as far as I can tell, is that
: there's loads of places where you can skip entire levels (including some
: of the hardest ones in the game). Marathon 2 would also be okay for
: speed-running, because even though there's no real shortcuts, there
: likewise aren't any places where you'll get totally bogged down trying to
: do one thing.
: The original Marathon, on the other hand, would be a real pain this way: no
: shortcuts, lots of places to get bogged down ( Colony Ship For Sale, Cheap
: probably being the worst of the bunch), and really nasty combat that's
: hard to avoid getting caught up in ( Ingue Ferroque , for one),
Actually Ingue Ferroque can be completed in under 7 seconds. Fastest Marathon level to complete.
Colony Ship is not that hard with practice. Indeed, even if you screw up the platform heights you can still grenade hop across platforms. Of course, you can just do what John Sumner does and skip the platforms altogether. ;)
Cheers
Hamish
