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.

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.)