Marathon Phoenix: Total Carnage Full Gameplay (No Mid-Level Restarts)
It is long, it is hard, and it is going to ramrod you into a gelatinous puddle. No sugarcoating it, this is one Major Richard Johnson of a mod. Welcome to RyokoTK's ballroom of eternal chaos and carn. Now dance!
Do you like your retro FPS with complex, sprawling architecture, oodles of secrets, and monster counts that typically go into the multiple hundreds? 'Marathon Phoenix' got's ya covered. Of course, you'll have to deal with hordes of over-tuned enemies coming from enough monster closets, ledge snipers, and teleporter ambushes that would make Dario Casali envious. Heck, there's even a running tally of collectables so now you can see how much I suck at finding secrets in real-time.
Fortunately, you got a new array of wowie zowie weapons to deal with the chaos:
Machine Pistols (Few things in the world can argue with akimbo SMGs.)
Fusion Gun (Basically the fusion pistol. The overload of robotics and overall accuracy makes this indispensable.)
Assault Rifle (Mechanically unchanged but your max ammo count is lower. If it weren't for the grenades, it'd be completely worthless.)
Crossbow (A reasonably accurate tool for the onslaught of enforcers. Dealing with the knockback constantly gets in the way of 2 shooting baddies.)
Fusion Mortar (Your first real big-badda-boom option. Has a nasty habit of scattering everything so they can come back at you from all angles and makes follow up shots ineffective.)
N-Cannon (A napalm fed alien weapon. Effective vs. everything.)
SPNKR (Relatively unchanged. Delivers a bigger boom.)
Energy Katar (Secondary fire makes you 'invulnerable' to everything except fusion weapons. Dead useful.)
Unfortunately, everything is rather bullet spongy and you're constantly getting out-ranged by everything. This makes your arsenal feel rather underpowered once you start going up against the renegades. They also reimposed the ammo limit for TC which I'm pretty sure is some kind of design sin.
Still want in? Grab it here:
Steam Workshop - https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfile...
Simplici7y - https://simplici7y.com/items/marathon...
Chapter List
0:00 Intro
0:16 Chapter 1 - Fallen Phoenix
0:22 Botany Bay (Can you really call yourself a retro shooter if you're not blasting away a dude in the first 5 seconds?)
2:13 A Space Marine Is You (Drawing you in with promises of delicious carn.)
12:58 Nottingham Lace (The first sprawling level. Hints of the pain to come.)
24:42 Enchanting New Mexico (What about bob X 4!)
39:33 The Bistromath (Rip-roaring through Pfhor ships is a time-honored tradition among cyborgs.)
53:32 Chapter 2 - The Renegade Mystery
53:38 Static Sand Land (Those gray guys are a pain in the butt. Surely there won't be more, right?)
55:13 The Count of Tuscany (Game is starting to show its true colors. Map can suffer from "Where-the-hell-do-I-go-itis")
1:15:02 Shades of Gray (Those defenders are a total pain, yes? Better get used to it.)
1:28:30 Vampire Killer (Fusion gun is getting a workout)
1:52:26 Great Cave Offensive (Just in case you're behind on your BoB bashing quota.)
2:14:46 Chapter 3 - Reckoning Night
2:14:52 Pushing Onwards (If you're waiting for something good...)
2:16:12 Neo New Mordor (Welcome to hell! A S'pht defender will be with you shortly.)
2:50:46 A Change of Seasons (Fusion gun goes pew! pew! pew! pew! pew! pew! pew! pew!...)
3:11:07 Stone Temple Pilates (This mod has brought instant death pits to marathon... Innovation!)
3:27:55 Something Wicked (Sick of fighting the overpowered renegades yet?)
3:47:23 Chapter 4 - The Convergence
3:47:29 Positive Force (...You are waiting for VVVVVV)
3:50:58 S'phtstorm (Astonishingly, this map is really fun now that we're fighting the Pfhor again.)
4:08:03 Escape Two Thousand (Let's put an enforcer on every single freaking ledge. That didn't get old 3 hours ago...)
4:25:25 Exercise in Excess (Why won't anyone learn... BoBs and cyborgs do not mix!)
4:46:53 Tantive IV (Easy to get lost here and the AI pathing is all over the place)
5:13:18 Chapter 5 - Wrath of The Pfhor
5:13:24 False Dichotomy (Yet another AI wooed by the charms of Mjolnir Recon 54)
5:14:43 Sanctum Sanctorum (After the last 5 hours, this level is downright peaceful)
5:28:15 Dark Pfhorces (And we're back to full pain production. At least it's just the Pfhor)
5:50:19 Red Eye Express (We've hijacked one Pfhor ship... but what about 2nd ship?)
6:07:04 The Face of Modern Gaming (Quite a few ways to approach this one.)
6:34:21 Chapter 6 - Reborn Phoenix
6:34:27 Precipice of Madness (And we got the box seats...)
6:36:34 Holy Wars (The Energy Katar is showing it's worth.)
7:00:15 Intervals (That final fight was begging to be cheesed. Do not fight in that arena.)
7:25:19 Roquefortress (At this point, you are definitely sick of swatting defenders with the Fusion Gun)
7:47:01 Another Dimension (I have no idea how the hell I one-lifed this. Welcome to PAIN!)
8:26:35 Swan Song (Dad says I have to go home now...)
8:34:18 Ending