It is beautifully made but achingly familiar so could struggle to lure players away from what is already out there
t is fair to say that the video game industry is undergoing a period of alarming disarray. Studios are closing, development budgets are exploding and profitable genres are becoming saturated by mega-budget pick-me candidates that feel utterly interchangeable.
The 12 launch maps are mostly hypercolourful variations on the sci-fi industrial spaces we used to see in Quake. Spine Works and Sorting Hub are labyrinthine complexes, all interconnected steel walkways, shipping containers and box-like warehouse choke points. Water Hazard is an abandoned oil rig with the remains of a giant sea monster lying across the top like some sort of nightmarish Lovecraftian sushi dish.
Concord’s most interesting wrinkle is in the game’s “meta”, the strategic part outside the main action. The game has introduced some deck-building elements, in that you have to assemble your own crew of characters, each with slight variants on the typical abilities.
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