Concord is perfectly fun multiplayer fare, but it struggles to capitalize on its colorful characters and rich world-building.
Concord MSRP $40.00 Score Details “ Concord has the bones of a fun multiplayer game, but it's missing the meat.” Pros Cons I thought the life of a Freegunner would be more exciting.
Building a galaxy Concord is a fairly boilerplate hero shooter filled with familiar modes that pit squads of five against one another. What makes it unique, though, is Firewalk Studios’ approach to narrative. Most multiplayer games simply toss players into battles with the slightest bit of set dressing, sometimes in the form of content found entirely outside of the game. Concord looks to change that trend by loading up on lore logs and cinematic scenes that roll out once a week.
What quickly becomes clear, though, is that the set dressing is far more inventive than the game underneath it. I could spend hours getting invested in the politics of space, but none of that has any weight on the hundreds of deathmatches or zone control battles I’ll play. The narrative feels entirely removed from the game, as if it’s there more as a lore bible for whoever gets tapped to turn it into an Amazon show.
Sometimes that approach works well enough; other times it clarifies why games like Overwatch are built the way they are. The core action is largely unremarkable, but I’ve carved out my niche thanks to its diversity of character playstyles. Lennox has become my go-to, as I’ve grown to enjoy peppering enemies with pistol shots, finishing them off with an exploding knife, retrieving it from their body, and self-healing.
Despite those problems, Concord’s unique character abilities help stabilize that shaky foundation. Each hero has their own passive skills and special abilities . Those skills can lead to some clever strategizing when used well. One of my go-to characters is Lark, a fungal creature that can place buff-granting spores around the battlefield. One ability allows her to drop a pod that she can teleport back to at any time.
For one, crew buffs often feel negligible; I have still yet to consciously clock the impact of one. It doesn’t help that the system isn’t clearly explained either, leaving me scratching my head as I try to figure out what the benefit of having a specific hero on my crew actually is. I’d ignore the feature altogether and just use the standard lineup if I could.I can’t do that, though, and that’s thanks to Concord’s strange approach to character variation.
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