PlayStation’s newly canceled live-service hero shooter, Concord, will apparently live on in the gamer social zeitgeist through Amazon Prime Video’s upcoming video game-centric anthology series, Secret Level.
Last week, Sony shockingly announced that it would shut down Concord two weeks after it launched on PlayStation 5 and PC. According to Kotaku, the crux of Sony’s decision to virtually snuff the game out came from a mix of low sales and low concurrent player numbers. While a sliver of Concord‘s player base got busy throwing themselves off the game’s virtual cliffside to earn its platinum trophy before it went for good, the rest of the gaming world wondered if Prime Video would announce that the game would no longer have its own designated episode in Secret Level—fully cementing its dead on arrival status in the annals of history. As fate would have it, that won’t be the case.
According to IGN, sources close to Secret Level‘s production have no plans to axe Concord‘s episode, even considering that Sony has shut its proverbial lights off (*checks calendar*) today, i.e., September 6. While Concord’s legacy living on in Secret Level is a bit of a mercy, its involvement is now more cosmically hilarious, considering how out of place it felt being featured in the show in the first place.
When Secret Level was first announced toward the tail-end of August on the opening night of Gamescom, it drummed up a considerable amount of hype. The excitement was due to the involvement of Tim Miller and Blur Studios, the folks behind Netflix’s irreverent Love, Death + Robots animated anthology series, and the fact that the series was chronicling some of the biggest franchises in gaming. Such names included established series like Warhammer 40,000, Mega Man, God of War, and Armored Core. The last will star John Wick (and soon-to-be Sonic the Hedgehog 3) actor Keanu Reeves in some capacity. Having Concord, which was only announced last year and formerly revealed in May, included in Secret Level‘s stacked 15-episode lineup felt like the coughing baby hydrogen bomb meme, seeing as the gaming public hadn’t touched the sci-fi title yet.
Charitably, one could read Concord being featured in Secret Level as giving the hero shooter the rub as the next big thing, considering the game was in development in 2016. For those not keeping score, that development window would’ve come around when Activision Blizzard’s then-highly coveted hero shooter, Overwatch, took the gaming community by storm. Unless your name is Marvel Rivals, the children no longer hunger for hero shooters.
Regardless, gamers around the world can look forward to eulogizing Concord when Secret Level premieres on December 10.
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