However, this left me a little confused.
Where had it gone?
I almost want to keep playing to see how all of that pays off down the line.
Concords lack of a compelling narrative isnt a dealbreaker, however.
Most of these game modes play the same, featuring large arena maps in 5v5 team-based combat.
Theyre stunning to look at, but a few of them do struggle to stand out.
However, there are a few gameplay bugs I found annoying.
Upon exiting matches, I found that a few menu buttons would randomly stop working.
In Overwatch, Blizzard plays with the idea of turning real-world locations into futuristic utopias.
Others are simply boring, like the Soldier 76 stand-in Teo, or the massive Power Armour-wearing Emari.
Thankfully, their hero kits do a lot of heavy lifting here.
Others, like It-Z, are a little more interesting but harder to master.
These buffs incentivise players to swap between multiple heroes rather than picking one main for an entire match.
I also really liked the games deployable system.
At launch, Firewalks promises for the games future seem ambitious.
That is, providing the game survives for that long.
In an ideal world, that would ensure the game’s battle pass progression isn’t too laborious.
Sadly, this is not the case.
One daily challenge even had me run around the map trying to destroy a whopping 24 deployables.
Concord launched with under 700 concurrent players on Steam this week.
Hero shooters live or die by the strength of their playable protagonists.
Concord is now playable on PlayStation 5 and PC.
We received a copy of the game for this review.
