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[pargonta]

Guys, please don't pretend this game is like super niche and sophisticated and the gun is only prominent so normies get lured in.

guns guns guns... lord have mercy.

i know the argument is tired, but reliance on guns and aggression in game content and advertising is tiring to me as well.

it fits what the game is though, still a lackluster cover, and can't wait to play it!

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[VeryGooster]

Needs more sparks and flying debris! More clouds!

 

[Noisepurge]

incredibly generic gotta make my own again.

i improved the hideously dull Dead Space 3 cover too last time:

 

[Zaventem]

I actually think it looks awesome.And i hate 3d renders most of the time.

 

[Jonboy]

Dang. Was hoping to see PS4 box art.

 

[Aostia]

meh, don't like it. too bland

 

[sacrificengineer]

Hoped to see the glimpse of PS4 future boxarts

 

[Ivan 3414]

It's bad box art. A guy with a gun and a cell phone that's taking pictures of a train, a man's head and a camera.

Doesn't convey the game's main draw well at all.

 

[ChryZ]

Meh, deserves better.

 

[Herb Alpert]

The little dots and lines and squares from the smart phone... How ugly.

Really bad cover, reminds me of the bad ones in SNES MEGADRIVE day.
I guess the main focus is the gun "COME ON GUYS, THERE ARE GUNS!!!"

 

[Salvor.Hardin]

Gosh that is fucking terrible art.

 

[SirMossyBloke]

incredibly generic gotta make my own again.

i improved the hideously dull Dead Space 3 cover too last time:

Army of Two - IN SPACE.

Not a fan.

 

[rosaceadude2112]

.

Well thank you.

 

[Ghost_Protocol]

I'd bet $100 they'll change it before it ships. The focus on the gun is too in your face.

 

[Jay Sosa]

lol

 

[WhiskeyKnight]

No blue and orange.

Unacceptable.

Look closer.

 

[Spierek]

I like the distorted logo treatment, but the cover is quite bland. Oh well, everything in the hands of alternate cover creators. Again.

I wouldn't mind this one:

I'd take this one over that any day of the week

Both of those are even worse.

incredibly generic gotta make my own again.

i improved the hideously dull Dead Space 3 cover too last time:

I'm digging both the cover and that Kontrol.

 

[Android18a]

Hmm, a bit bland but inoffensive. I'd have liked the cover art to be more 'gitchy' like the logo. Get some grain and weird visual effects going on there to emphasize the hacky-smart-phone stuff. The lines and 'target' box thing is a bit too subtle.

I'd design a rough cover myself but I'm at work

 

[Pai Pai Master]

Box art is just as boring as the main character design.

 

[jello44]

Another "man holding a handgun" cover. It reminds me of all those movie dvd covers.

AND a smartphone.

PS Amazon has the PS4 version for pre-order.... for 99.99.

Yeah...

 

[hayguyz]

guy with gun

Spoiler

and phone

 

[DecoyOctopus]

this game is an album by the band Swans called "The Seer."


But I wish video games would take a more surrealist approach in design and art direction.

This..although it doesn't look like it's going to happen in the near future...

EDIT:

On that note, I would totally buy a DAVID LYNCH directed video game.
HOLY SHIT.

Something like Twin Peaks meets Shenmue.

Day 1!

 

[Empty]

yuck yuck yuck

the clash with the yellow and blue border on the wii u box is especially hideous.

 

[AranhaHunter]

WiiU/360/PS3 will look NOTHING like what we have seen so far. It'll honestly look like crap. PS4/Durango/PC is a different story though.

 

[Davey Cakes]

It is indeed a very boring cover. Weird how the mere gifs of this game have evoked a better sense of what it is.

 

[Moral Panic]

Would that be better?

Much better.

 

[olimpia84]

It's missing blue and orange tones along with photoshop lens flare to fully suck.

 

[Zeth]

My mind is genuinely boggled. How the fuck does every publisher get blue and orange/amber into their game covers? I don't know if it's just me, looking for it in every cover, or a massive focus group conspiracy.

 

[Darklord]

Man, that looks like some shovelware shit. Ubisoft, come on!

 

[Diablohead]

Looks really... dull

 

[Ryuuga]

That's the most boring boxart I've seen in quite sometime.

 

[HardRojo]

I was expecting a nice shot of the city and a reference to connectivity since that seems to be the theme of this game, kinda disappointed in their approach :/

 

[Meelow]

Box Art could be better, but it's not going to stop me from getting the game.

 

[Jawmuncher]

OK, so we just have to wait for the reversible cover art, right? right?

Hopefully. But then again Ubisoft has no track record of reversible art if I recall correctly.

 

[Go_Ly_Dow]

Feeling nothing for this cover.

 

[Baleoce]

Dude and a gun. What a surprise.

 

[zroid]

it's okay...

of course the gun is the most prominent object. oof course.

 

[Dr. Zoidberg]

People complain about 360 and WiiU's box headers but that PC header is pretty freaking ugly.

Good thing hardly anyone buys boxed PC games any more.

 

[bunbun777]

Gun needs to be pointing more towards the viewer, luckily there is still time to change it.

 

[gutter_trash]

I am liking you on Facebook on my smart phone!!

 

[Baleoce]

People complain about 360 and WiiU's box headers but that PC header is pretty freaking ugly.

Good thing hardly anyone buys boxed PC games any more.

I tend to actually, you can usually get games cheaper at launch if you buy physical, oddly enough. Plus future assurance that I can just hack my disk if any digital distro platforms go under. A lot of the time the physical discs have steamworks activation and other such too.

 

[Spiffy_1st]

No way did a group of graphic designers look at that and say it looks ok.

 

[Eideka]

Classy.

Do we know when this will release ? November 2013 ?

Considering that yet another Assassin's Creed is on its way I can see an October release for it and WD coming out a month later.

 

[GlamFM]

That´s a really shitty cover.

 

[FLAguy954]

WiiU/360/PS3 will look NOTHING like what we have seen so far. It'll honestly look like crap. PS4/Durango/PC is a different story though.

Be prepared to eat some bbq'd crow if the Wii U version uses PC textures but has less geometry ala Need For Speed Most Wanted U.

In regards to the cover, it's bland but it's not an eyesore either.

 

[NotTheGuyYouKill]

Wow... that is the most 'meh' cover I've seen in a while.

Let's hope the inevitable collector's edition is nicer.

 

[Coolwhip]

It would have been better without the gun.

 

[Currygan]

it's not that unappropriate, for me. It's not like the game is going to be some artistically original thing

 

[AranhaHunter]

Be prepared to eat some bbq'd crow if the Wii U version uses PC textures but has less geometry ala Need For Speed Most Wanted U.

In regards to the cover, it's bland but it's not an eyesore either.

Will still look nothing like what has been demoed.

 

[Jaded Alyx]

Current consoles? I want to play this on Durango/PS4.

What's stopping you?