Official Uncharted 4 boxart released #bestseriesendingboxart

http://www.gamespot.com/articles/uncharted-4-box-art-revealed-by-amazon/1100-6427775/

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."

This looks utterly amazing, SW. Easily one of the best box arts ever created, and probably the best one for a series ending installment in a gaming franchise. What do you think, SW? Are pumped for Uncharted 4 after seeing this?

Box art looks crappy and generic. Could have easily done much better. The Collection box art is miles better.

Ooooooo main character holding a gun and standing. Such creativity. Much like. -_-

That's some shitty ass boxart. As generic as they could have made it.

lol

So it was the same picture that we all saw many times before for a while now. And now it's the main box art cover? Pretty lame to be honest.

Doesn't even look like him

Been looking at that pic for ages now.

At least it's not just his face.

>hai aim naythan draak

Too dark for how generic it is. At least it's expressive. Uncharted 3's box art is worse than this.

@freedomfreak: I don't think that was the cover for the original release, though? Pretty sure that was him standing in front of a crashed plane in a desert.

Unfarted.

This is so much better and simpler. It instantly screams Uncharted (even without the title in there). And it's not like this is masterpiece either, but it's simple, clean, to the point and not as generic as the UC4 cover (and that's even considering the ugly beta sticker right there).

@charizard1605: It wasn't. GOTY edition. Didn't like it. That's the one I have.

I don't mind if that's the official box art but I still think Drake's Fortune has the best cover in the series.

Oh, and Uncharted 4 may not be the series last game. The sub-title could mean various things including the death of Drake, his retirement, or either of those for Sully, Drake's brother, someone we don't know yet, or it could mean something else entirely.

Do you hear that sound?

He's holding a gun in both variations.

Shocking.

@SolidGame_basic:

@freedomfreak said:

Been looking at that pic for ages now.

At least it's not just his face.

>hai aim naythan draak

Ah, Blue Steel!.

so it's the same, single guy standing with a gun that was used for like every shooter for the past gen

Why? It's MANLY MAN -_-

No, it's just plain ass shit and generic

Looks super generic. I think TC has a hard on for Nathan Drake.

he does

@lostrib: Goddamn I forgot about that thread. This guy needs some help.

Think? Almost everything he posts is about Uncharted or lolVita. One of the two.

I was going to pre-order this but I don't like the box art and let's face it that's what's important. I love box art, games suck.

Seriously, a thread about box art? ffs.

Wow. Another brooding man with a gun.

It's actually perfect in how it's a commentary on how Uncharted is so uninspired.

Rise of Lara Croft is superiority confirmed!

This

Could it be any more generic?

@SolidGame_basic said:

This looks utterly amazing, SW. Easily one of the best box arts ever created, and probably the best one for a series ending installment in a gaming franchise. What do you think, SW? Are pumped for Uncharted 4 after seeing this?

You mean they used that picture which has been floating around on the Internet since forever and you're praising it as some kind of revelation because it's the box art now lol? The Tomb Raider box art looks substantially better and less generic.

@clyde46: We need to give him an intervention, System Wars style.

@nyadc said:

@SolidGame_basic said:

This looks utterly amazing, SW. Easily one of the best box arts ever created, and probably the best one for a series ending installment in a gaming franchise. What do you think, SW? Are pumped for Uncharted 4 after seeing this?

You mean they used that picture which has been floating around on the Internet since forever and you're praising it as some kind of revelation because it's the box art now lol? The Tomb Raider box art looks substantially better and less generic.

comparing box arts? wtf is this

Does that mean we dress him up as a girl and have our way with him?

@nyadc said:

@SolidGame_basic said:

This looks utterly amazing, SW. Easily one of the best box arts ever created, and probably the best one for a series ending installment in a gaming franchise. What do you think, SW? Are pumped for Uncharted 4 after seeing this?

You mean they used that picture which has been floating around on the Internet since forever and you're praising it as some kind of revelation because it's the box art now lol? The Tomb Raider box art looks substantially better and less generic.

LOL

Why?

Because instead of a gun, she has an ice pick in one hand and a flare in the other?

Looks like a photoshop knockup. RotTR boxart looks fantastic in comparison. Sort it out Naughty Dog. First the no multiplayer Uncharted collection, now this?

Just wait for the British boxart, they are always better than the American ones.

Best box art ever created?

lol OP

LOL notice how all the haters think its the worst box art ever LMAO.... smh.

ND just used a cropped photo they had since the announcement of the game. The TR2 art is new original art they created just for the cover. If the effort in making the game is the same as the effort used to create this crappy box art then I'd be really worried.

GOTY. 2016.

@nyadc said:

@SolidGame_basic said:

This looks utterly amazing, SW. Easily one of the best box arts ever created, and probably the best one for a series ending installment in a gaming franchise. What do you think, SW? Are pumped for Uncharted 4 after seeing this?

You mean they used that picture which has been floating around on the Internet since forever and you're praising it as some kind of revelation because it's the box art now lol? The Tomb Raider box art looks substantially better and less generic.

Comparing box arts........? LOL.

Really?

LOL SW is a joke. No wonder nobody really posts here. Guys have a bunch of kids and idiots posting here..even the mods are idiots. Suddenly a game is judged based on Box Art.... BOX ART.

I think Naughty Dog are slacking. They really fucken pissed me off with the Uncharted multiplayer thing. What a cop out that was. And you would think with them naming it the Nathan Drake Collection, they would actually try and do one better than MCC and actually have working online at release. Instead they reveal they have no balls.

@Douevenlift_bro: Not sure why I was quoted here. lol

Cuz you made an idiotic comment lol

@deadline-zero0 said:

@SolidGame_basic:

hahahahahaha nice

@Douevenlift_bro: Not really. Pretty much everyone here will agree that the box art is terrible.

@clyde46: I believe that works for everyone. All in favor say aye!

Pretty much just every other game released this generation or last.

i dont understand what everyones infatuation is over box art?..do u guys like play with case out in public or something?

Looks boring to me. Uses in game assets, hell I even think that was made with vue or something, or at least there is some vue in it. Most of these "industrial" illustrations are done with extremely unappealing workflows imo, the result is usually just borderline "ok" and serves it's purpose, but it has no character.