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Sony’s new game Concord has an unexpectedly lovely map
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Sony’s new game Concord has an unexpectedly lovely map

The Galactic Guide is beautiful, full of stories and for some reason doles out map XP.

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Stephen Totilo
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Behold the terminus of Concord’s Route 5, a space lane now interrupted by a galactic storm called The Tempest that’s been raging for 82 years. Screenshot: Firewalk Studios, Sony Interactive Entertainment (captured by Game File)

There is a moment during the questionably long opening cinematic to the new PlayStation-published multiplayer shooter Concord when the game’s assembled wise-cracking aliens gather around a map and gawk at it.

I can relate.

I have spent a few hours playing Concord today and competed in a dozen of its matches. 

I had fun, but I’m no multiplayer shooter expert.

I am confident, though, in telling you that this game has a killer map. (And it’s only slightly awkward that the game doesn’t actually need a map.)

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