Concord is officially no more, and neither is the studio that made it thanks to recent layoffs at Sony. But the ill-fated PlayStation shooter is set to live on in Amazon’s upcoming Secret Level video game series, and the show’s creator reckons its Concord episode – commissioned long before the game’s fate was sealed – shows the ‘potential of world and characters’.
Speaking to Rolling Stone (thanks IGN), Secret Level creator Tim Miller – whose other credits include directing duties on the first Deadpool movie, as well as Netflix’s sci-fi anthology series Love, Death & Robots – explained the possibility fo removing the Concord episode from Amazon’s anthology had never even been considered. That’s despite Sony pulling the plug on the game just weeks after its launch and its recent decision to shut down Firewalk Studios.
“I don’t feel bad that it’s a part of the show,” he continued, “because I think it’s an episode that turned out really well, and you can kind of see the potential of this world and the characters. If it’s the remaining vestige of that product, I hope the developers feel that it’s in some way worthy, just a little bit, of the blood, sweat, and tears they put into it.”
“There was no nicer, more invested group of developers than the team on Concord,” Miller added. “I honestly don’t understand why it didn’t work. I know that they were trying to do the best they could, and they were a talented group of artists, so I feel terrible for that.”
And while Miller acknowledged the the irony publishing the episode of a game that no longer exists, he noted it’s not a whole lot different to the Secret Level episodes dedicated to long-dormant franchises such as Unreal Tournament and Mega Man.
Secret Level makes its Prime Video debut on 10th December, and consists of 15 episode reportedly starring the likes of Arnold Schwarzenegger and Keanu Reeves. Armored Core, Crossfire, Dungeons & Dragons, Exodus, Honor of Kings, Mega Man, New World: Aeternum, PAC-MAN, Sifu, Spelunky, The Outer Worlds, Warhammer 40,000, and a number of PlayStation Studios games are all set to feature – with the first batch of episodes covering the more mature end of the spectrum, while the latter end is more family friendly, according to Miller.
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