MadWorld boxart is simply awesome

by David Hinkle { Oct 24th 2008 at 9:52AM }

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Even before the boxart for MadWorld was unveiled, we found ourselves to be in love with the game. When we got our eyes on it back at E3, we entertained thoughts of pushing our way to the front of the crowd of journalists there to see the game, ripping the controller out of Atsushi Inaba's hands, and playing it for as long as we could before security came down to the area Platinum Games demoed the title for us and forcefully ejected us from the premises. The game just looks that good.

What do you think of the boxart? Hate it? Love it? Indifferent?

Gallery: MadWorld

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Tags: atsushi-inaba, boxart, madworld, platinum-games, sega

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

smcn @ Oct 24th 2008 10:07AM

Hellboy?

TWOO DEE @ Oct 24th 2008 10:37AM

...Gears of War?

deaddays @ Oct 24th 2008 10:47AM

Marv?

Mr Khan @ Oct 24th 2008 10:54AM

Hellboy has a child with Marcus Fenix, who then goes to live in Sin City

Yourself @ Oct 24th 2008 12:56PM

Sorry, I think you were all trying to say "Evil Dead 2".

MaxRadical @ Oct 24th 2008 10:55AM

Urgh - I hate it.

The guy is in such an unnatural pose it's just awkward to look at.

samfish @ Oct 24th 2008 10:56AM

I like it. It's nice, it's clean and it grabs your eye. It has a less is more thing going on.

It would be better if he was doing something else, just to tell you more about the game...but that would likely ruin the simplicity of it and make it look too crowded.

Roto13 @ Oct 24th 2008 11:09AM

I'm a sucker for monochrome.

Kia @ Oct 24th 2008 12:29PM

Oh look, generic overly beefy bald guy. YAWN.

Markez @ Oct 25th 2008 3:27PM

I agree, I think this boxart is horrible. I understand how colorscheme wise this is appropriate, but it seems beyond lazy for them to release such boring boxart. The art style in the actual game is miles beyond this, they would've been better off with a screen shot from the game.

N. Mayer @ Oct 24th 2008 12:30PM

Slick. I'd love to see their concept art for this game, I can only imagine that they'd have a few more gems of monochromatic goodness.

CJLopez @ Oct 24th 2008 12:31PM

Meh, its alright, i guess, they could had made something better

Maybe 'll be replacing this one when I get the game, xDDDD

Ty @ Oct 24th 2008 1:35PM

stylistically its fantastic.

illustrationwise its meh.

hellhammer @ Oct 24th 2008 1:57PM

MadWorld's box art looks waaaaay too much like the No More Heroes box art.

I'm serious, compare them side by side.

David Hinkle @ Oct 24th 2008 3:56PM

I don't know about you, but I think being compared to No More Heroes is a very good thing. You could take inspiration from a lot worse, that's for sure!

hellhammer @ Oct 25th 2008 4:06AM

If we were comparing the games themselves, sure.

But this is borderline ripping off the NMH cover art. Largely black and white cover with the majority of the red in the logo? Just exchange that black chainsaw 'rip' for a black 'spatter'. Or the belt with a bullet bag hanging off the left side? And even the character's 'outstretched arm/cocked-back arm' stance is too similar.

Even if they keep it, I'll live. And buy it anyway.

samfish @ Oct 26th 2008 1:43AM

err...they look nothing alike at all. The only similarity they have is a clean look due to the lack of background.
On the NMH box, Travis's weapon is being thrusted into the viewers face. On the MW box, the weapon is being thrown back.
NMH is standing. MW is jumping. NMH is a top down shot, MW is moving off the box, if it were in motion.
I suppose if you drew a general outline around both characters and flipped one, the shape would be vaguely similar, but that's about it. I think you're reacting to the art styles. both have very 'hard' shading techniques. MW's style is obviously just black and white while NMH's style is basically a main color followed by a dark version of that color, giving it a hard edged look.

hellhammer @ Oct 26th 2008 3:40AM

"err...they look nothing alike at all. "

And then you go on to describe how the art style and the general outline of the characters are similar?

I'm not suggesting they photoshopped chainsaws onto the NMH box art.
All I mean to say is, it looks to me like someone took a large amount of influence from NHM's cover art.