Uncharted 4 Box Art Revealed By Amazon

Online retail giant Amazon has updated its store page for Naughty Dog's Uncharted 4: Thief's End with the game's official box art.

The cover art, which you can see below, is fairly standard fare for modern third-person shooters. It features Nathan Drake, with ruffled hair, presumably because he has been shot at a lot and has been diving around quite a bit, leading the unkempt look. Or perhaps he used a bit of Garnier Fructis texturising wax to achieve that I'm-not-even-trying surf hair style.

Drake's face is partly obscured by shadow, with his forehead prominently showing an injury, likely from all the aforementioned diving around. The use of shadows is particularly interesting because Uncharted 4 has been pitched as a much darker entry in the successful series, and will delve into the protagonist's chequered past.

With the Uncharted 4 cover, Drake seems to be in a jungle, which would explain why he has unbuttoned his shirt--it's hot. But he's also the kind of guy that would work really hard on his pecs but not overtly brag about his gains. Instead he'd simply give the world a peek and wait for the compliments to roll in.

Naturally he's holding a gun, because no self-respecting Indiana Jones facsimile would leave home without one. Drake is also looking down with an expression of anguish. Although this is speculation, this may be because he's dealing with the reality of killing yet another person.

Either that, or he's lamenting the fact that he left home wearing sandals and now his feet are just full of potentially poisonous thorns. On top of that, opportunistic indigenous wildlife may have clamped down on his exposed toes and are suckling the blood from his tired, malnourished body.

In summary, box art is man with gun looking sad/angry.

The Last of Us leads Neil Druckmann and Bruce Straley are heading up Uncharted 4's development.

"[With] The Last of Us, we went to great lengths to try to create this reality, but we were still limited by the amount of overdraw the PS3 could handle, etc.," Straley said when the game was first revealed.

"Now, the PS4 is allowing us to push so much more density, so it's fun to go back and go like, 'Oh, look at the things we wish we could have done in Uncharted 1, it's just like, this is easy, let's just make this.' It's nice to be able to explore something and look back and go, 'Wow, remember when we couldn't do any of this?' It's kind of neat."

In March, Sony delayed the Uncharted 4 release date until Spring 2016.