Friday night after a really long session in Blue Prince, I shut down my console to get ready to wind down for the night. As I was getting ready to relax, I checked my email on my phone and saw that I was selected to participate in the Marathon Closed Alpha Test. Immediately, all relaxation paused as I booted my console back up, redeemed the code and spent the next few minutes staring at the TV as my Xbox downloaded several gigabytes of Marathon goodness.
Of course, the first thing I did when the download completed was to try and boot it up. I was very curious to see if it would even launch and if it did, what it would do.
Unexpectedly, even though the test is not live until April 23rd, the Alpha Test build launches straight into the start menu with some looping video set to some fittingly eerie music from the game’s soundtrack. Pressing a button tries to connect, but of course it errors out since the test is not live yet.
Only a few more days of waiting for the test to go live… I cannot wait!
