Secret Level‘s Creator Hopes Concord Episode Showcases Its Lost Potential

Amazon’s upcoming video crippled anthology amusement Secret Level has an other level of intrigue built into its release. Not lone volition it showcase a who’s who successful gaming past and present, but it volition besides memorialize what could person been with Sony’s canceled team-based leader shooter, Concord. Rather than look astatine the concern with a glass-half-empty perspective, Secret Level‘s creator beckons fans to enroll successful the thought that it volition showcase the game’s mislaid imaginable instead.

Speaking with Rolling Stone, Secret Level creator Tim Miller broke his soundlessness regarding Concord‘s abrupt cancelation. He besides expressed however helium feels nary consciousness of shame having the crippled featured arsenic portion of his anthology, and hopes viewers instrumentality it arsenic an accidental to admit the hard enactment its developers enactment into the game’s satellite and characters done the show.

“I don’t consciousness atrocious that it’s a portion of the show, due to the fact that I deliberation it’s an occurrence that turned retired truly well, and you tin benignant of spot the imaginable of this satellite and the characters,” Miller told Rolling Stone. “If it’s the remaining vestige of that product, I anticipation the developers consciousness that it’s successful immoderate mode worthy, conscionable a small bit, of the blood, sweat, and tears they enactment into it.”

In September, Sony unexpectedly announced the shutdown of Concord conscionable 2 weeks post-launch connected PlayStation 5 and PC. Kotaku reported Sony’s determination stemmed from a operation of debased income and insufficient concurrent subordinate numbers. Concord’s cancelation besides culminated successful the shutdown of its improvement workplace Firewalk, 2 years aft Sony purchased it.

“There was nary nicer, much invested radical of developers than the squad connected Concord,” Miller said. “I honestly don’t recognize wherefore it didn’t work. I cognize that they were trying to bash the champion they could, and they were a talented radical of artists, truthful I consciousness unspeakable for that.”

According to different study from Kotaku, Concord outgo Sony a whopping $200 cardinal to develop. For perspective, Riot Games invested $250 million successful some seasons of Arcane, its League of Legends Netflix show. So ideate if, aft 2 weeks of the amusement being out, Riot and Netflix pulled the plug connected it and removed it from the streamer due to the fact that it wasn’t getting the numbers they hoped it would. That’s the streamer equivalent of what Sony did with Concord aft removing it from online storefronts 2 weeks aft its release.

Concord‘s cancelation led folks to speculate whether Secret Level would scrap its episode. That is, until parties adjacent to the show’s improvement confirmed with IGN that nary specified plans were successful place.

Secret Level‘s 15-episode lineup features a smörgåsbord of hit video crippled titles similar Warhammer 40,000, Mega Man, God of War, and Armored Core. Its voice formed is besides stacked, featuring large marquee actors similar Laura Bailey, Keanu Reeves, and Arnold Schwarzanegger among its database of Hollywood talent.

Secret Level premieres connected Prime Video December 10.

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