Get Out Of My Way

The cyborg's going to have to contend with those Hunters in the background once he takes out that Phfor Elite... with the pistol? Unlike Halo's pistol, the pistol in Marathon was more of a weapon of last resort than a primary choice.

Killing Hunters

One of the most effective methods of combating the large, armored Hunters in the Marathon series was the Zeus fusion pistol. Remarkably similar to the plasma pistol in Halo, it had an alt-fire mode that charged up over time and fired one powerful projectile. This depleted the weapon quickly, but a few such blasts could take out a Hunter quickly. Interestingly, like a phaser in "Star Trek", if the alt-fire was held down too long, the weapon would explode and kill the user. An audible alarm beeps as you charge the weapon, faster and faster, until detonation.

Don't Make Hulk Angry

One of the more visually imposing, if not actually the most dangerous, enemies in the Marathon series were the Hulks, also known as Drinniol. In terms of size and shape there is more than a passing similarity to Hunters, although the Marathon series featured another enemy by that name with entirely different features.

Why Can't We All Get Along

The Marathon games, like Myth and Halo after it, prominently featured cooperative play. With an ethernet network, players on different computers could play through the full story campaign of the Marathon games together, something I once convinced my siblings to do, straight through, over a single weekend.