Marathon Rubicon

From Traxus

Marathon Rubicon is a scenario set in the Marathon universe fifty years after the events of Marathon 2. Originally released for Marathon Infinity, it was later rereleased as the Aleph One-only Rubicon X, a vastly overhauled version with new and restructured levels which is now considered by the original authors to be the definitive version^{[citation needed]}.

[edit] Volunteer series

See Rubicon Volunteers.

[edit] Weapons

• Magnum .44 Ultra Class Pistol, an upgraded version of the original Magnum Mega Class with 12 bullets per clip instead of 8.
• MA-75B Assault Rifle/Grenade Launcher, which has a new design but functions identically to the original in gameplay. On one level, the player is issued specialized ammunition for it which can fire underwater.
• Mercury A3 Fusion Rifle, a variation on the Fusion Pistol. Rapidly fires small fusion rounds that do less damage than the original Fusion Pistol, with an alternate fire similar to the charge function of the aforementioned Fusion Pistol.
• WSTE-M Combat Shotgun
• SPNKR X-34 SSM Launcher, a version of the original trilogy's rocket launcher which loads three rockets at a time instead of the original's two.
• UESC Carpet Mortar, a heavy-duty assault weapon which fires around 10 grenades in a single shot and can be fired twice before reloading.
• Dangi AI324b Maser, which fires a constant, incredibly accurate, and deadly laser.
• Alien Weapon, used by the Pfhor Enforcers and dropped by them when they die. The primary firing mode is a slow-moving but precise energy bolt, while the secondary fire works only at close range, but does no damage. Both firing modes are able to completely disintegrate any enemy short of a Drinniol.

[edit] Installation

For players on Macintosh computers running MacOS 9 or earlier, the Rubicon Standard package is recommended. The Infinity application required to install it can be found here. The "Rubicon AO Light" version breaks some smearing-based graphical effects which were part of the original design.