Its an unproven trend at this point, but the new race toward live multiplayer games appear to be the genre of extraction shooters, and this week brought an unusual situation with two upcoming 2025 extraction games both running Closed Alphas and so far, eliciting different reactions.
The reaction to the Marathon Alpha has mostly been mixed to underwhelming. The initial reaction to the ARC Raiders Alpha has visibly skewed more positive.
Source: N4G PC Yes, ARC Raiders Makes Marathon Look Bad