mara2 The Bob Factory

The BOB Factory v1.0.1 is a three-level solo map for Bungie's Marathon 2: Durandal, written by Darrell Olson - the same author who built the earlier Marathon scenario "Cookin' with Pfor." Players infiltrate a Pfhor research station and rescue BOB colonists before they can be assimilated into suicidal exploding cyborgs.

Premise

The Pfhor are converting captured BOBs (Marathon's friendly NPC humans) into walking bombs. The player has to push through the facility, free the colonists who are still themselves, and clean up the cyborg results of the experiments that have already finished.

Levels

Three custom solo maps make up the scenario, designed to drop into a stock Marathon 2 install with no scripting tricks beyond what the original engine supports.

Requirements

Marathon 2 is required (the map files have no engine of their own). The author recommends a fast 68040 or any Power Macintosh; the "Ignore Zero Divides" workaround that some 68k Marathon mods need is explicitly not required here.

Distribution

Posted to Info-Mac as game/com/mthn/mara2-the-bob-factory-101.hqx, a BinHex 4.0 archive in the Marathon section of the community-contributions tree.