The box art was just revealed today. It looks to me like they messed up centering the image and just went with it. The NTSC logo is even covering that guy's face. Come on.

Terrible? No. Kinda shitty editing? Yes.

Yeah, the fuck? Who thought this looked good?

Meh, looks about as poorly edited / over-focus-tested as most video-game box-art nowadays.

Although yes, they could have maybe done a tad more work, if only so the NTSC logo didn't end up looking like some weird censored-bar over that guy's mouth

Well at least the other half of the box isn't teal.

Needs some blue in there. ;)

It's like when you give your grandma the camera and she cuts everyone's heads off.

THe name is kind of terrible also. Fuse, like the fruit drink?

I'll miss you, Overstrike.

Overstrike way better name

@PlasmaBeam44: Needs more blue. You know, because all boxarts need to mix blue and orange in some sort of contrasting and visually-popping way.

I expect this to be on the list of EA partners games that sell shitty. I don't know what hell Insomniac was thinking because everything other than the initial Overstrike CG trailer has screamed mediocre. They are more talented than this.

I bet that fucken guy is bald

This isn't a joke?

@Phatmac said:

This isn't a joke?

As soon as I saw the NTSC logo, I thought for sure it was a photochop.

I think I'm the last defender of this game. Still, I cannot defend this box art. I can't believe that this isn't a joke. :/

@benspyda: Nice spoiler

I think that if they moved the image down so I could see their faces it would be better. Otherwise it looks like some typical boxart for what looks to be a typical shooter. (Especially since Insomniac is in on it, expectations were higher)

The position of the characters and the font are kinda meh but I don't really mind so much. But the orange glow, what the hell is going on here? You can't even tell what's in dudes hand cause it's covered in electric orange cyber goo. What is going on here?

It's like one of those obesity documentaries where everyone is filmed from the chest down...

Check out that dude's sick lookin NTSC mustache.

Don't like it, liked the previous art style better.

I'd like to know whose bright idea it was to absolutely destroy any ounce of originality this game had. I just feel depressed every time I see it. Whoever thought "this game would sell better if it looked less cartoony" needs to compare Team Fortress 2 and Homefront. Or Borderlands and Medal of Honor.

It looks like the kind of pictures my wife's grandmother used to take. She'd constantly miss everyone's heads, somehow.

Makes sense their heads were FUSED to the Xbox logo on the case.

Why does the gradient-textured ground take up 1/3 of the box art?!?

I remember when this game was one of the games I anticipated the most...but it was called Overstrike then.

Man, things have just been going downhill (in my opinion) since they changed the aesthetics of this game. That orange explosion, I'm not even sure what it's supposed to be or where it's coming out of.

It's no Resistance 3 box art, that's for sure.

I feel like there's got to be some design choice behind their heads being cut off like that. Normally I'd say it has something to do with the faceless nature of war or something along those lines, but considering this game is supposed to be all about how distinct its characters are (or at least it was when it was Overstrike) it makes no fucking sense at all to me.

http://imgur.com/0Ghj8 Sticker placement like this on RE: 6 and Hitman Absolution is appalling.

To be fair, the whole game seems pretty terrible.

http://imgur.com/0Ghj8 Sticker placement like this on RE: 6 and Hitman Absolution is appalling.

Looks like COD boxart times 4.

Sticker placement like this on Sleeping Dogs and Hitman Absolution as well as others is appalling. At least this box art isn't that bad. But something that's offset and printed to say the least, like such, is pretty bad :/

Who thought this was a good idea?

I wouldn't say I am an expert on composition, but to me it looks like there is a bit too much empty space at the bottom of the cover. It is made more jarring by the fact that the character's faces are cut off. Then again I don't know, maybe this is proper graphic design.

Yeah.

*sigh*

It's awful.

Yeah, I'm disappointed by the art especially since the design for Resistance 3 by Olly Moss was so innovative and stylish. This looks really generic, like it was designed by a focus group. This game has a GI Joe vibe to it and now they are starting to rip off the art direction from the lame movie remake.

I think it looks great. no idea what you're talking about

@BisonHero said:

I'll miss you, Overstrike.

You and me both.

I haven't seen any of this game since is was announced but I thought this game was suppose to be about a colorful cast of characters. Shouldn't I want to see their faces?

That is really weird... the amount of featureless ground really does make me think somebody fucked up.

They're too edgy to have eyes.

This can't be right. But it does make me want to see their faces.

It is pretty terrible, and seems like more of a mistake rather than a design choice. It's sad, because that would look pretty neat if it wasn't cropped improperly.

It seems disappointing, with the way it is cropped you can't see the sweet beards the dudes in the picture assuredly have.

Ya I discovered that when I bought an Assassins Creed game there a few years back. Will never buy a game from there again.

Black man not allowed to talk, lol.

This is going down as one of the funniest bad box arts of games.

I hope one day we get an interview from someone at Insomniac and find out what the fuck happened to Overstrike.

This game has just been downhill after that initial reveal.