Here are the official boxarts for two greatly anticipated titles for the GCN, history has shown us that the Resident Evil boxes in Australia (i.e. PAL) have been different to their NTSC counterparts (arguably better) so dont expect the RE4 boxart to be the same in stores as shown here. However Nintendo games such as Metroid Prime 2 are identical worldwide, (with minor changes). So anyways, here they are!





Discuss! :D

Um, as much as I like boxarts(in general), I think these should have been posted in their respective threads. ;)

I'm not too keen on either of them btw. :\

I saw the words box art and just had to come and take a peep! :P

Are you sure those are official, they look quite amateurish... :unsure:

that's because australians have a finer design appreciation than the yanks. everything they do has to be over the top and in your face, whereas we're more like the poms/europeans who can appreciate quality, subtle design. res evil zero was a good example, no way would the americans have appreciated the funky minimal bacteria strain concept. they would have had to have zombies and crap all over it.

but yeah, i think both of these covers pretty dodgy.... the metroid one looks particularly amateurish... as metallix said.

Can anyone say...ew?

I really hope Nintendo and Capcom go back and re-design those covers. Both look like rushed Photoshops.

I hope they change both of them... heck I even prefer my design for Resident Evil 4 and I am sub - ammerish... Pic

I quite like the MP2 boxart.

You see? Manny likes it... that means they are crap... :P

Samus looks cool in the Metroid box art, but the rest of it is quite lame

LOL :lol:

Well I think the metroid one had a good concept(dark/light) but was poorly executed...

As for the RE4 one, I agree; shite.


I reckon ours'll look more like this:



Or most likely, this: (they like using boring text on the binders. <_<)





And damn you mark, I was going to say the same thing! :P

:lol:

Hey! Are you trying to say I have bad taste?!

Maybe it is y'all that have bad taste.

I'm with Manny. I like the Prime 2 one.

Why dont we make this a boxart thread then? So if people want to see the boxarts for upcoming GCN games they can find them here :) . Anyway, GameCube general had been particualy slow lately, we hadnt had a new therad in a while :) .


As for the boxarts, I think the Metroid Prime 2 one is pretty good, but not as cool as the first games, whilst the RE4 one is just like the other RE games NTSC boxarts, hence we are sure to get something more stylish :) .

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They do look a bit rushed. -_-
And I thought the game was called "Resident Evil 4", not 4 Resident Evil...

There both ok but imo some of the box arts I have seen in comps on hyper are better =\

Wow. Those look baad. :P

We've all seen better ones on the Hyper Box art comp. The Res-Evil one oughts be changed, but like Borgster said, I don't like our chances on the MP2 one. Blech.

Jebus! I really don't like that Resident Evil boxart. The pink sky just doesn't fit with RE.

As for the Metroid boxart, it isn't bad but I it hope they come up with something better.

Heres the high res versions:

Ok here is the "Official" US boxart for MP2:E.



IMHO I think they've made it worse, it looks all cluttered now. :wacko:

Looks like they where trying to illustrate the "visor effect", but yeah it did look better without <_< . Meh, it's the inside game that matters :thumbsup:, but still <_<

Diddy Kong with a jet pack?? This may be his special ability, as in DK64 :) since all characters have a special power move in this game.

Now it looks messy. Damn graphic designers! Get it right!

And the Mario Tennis box looks nice I guess.

So far the Mario Tennis one looks the best. I honestly think the majority of us here (even those without any skill, like me) could design a better box art for Metroid. Let's it gets changed for PAL.

Unfortantly,it is unlikely that the PAL game will have a different case, based on history anyway, but hey its the inside that really matters :)

Why the hell did they stick in 'Power' in the Mario Tennis title. It looks so out of place. <_<

Well the title is based on the 'power' abilities that are in the game, but yeah it does look a little out of place, like it's been added at the last minute or something, although that could be the effect the designers were after.

That make me want Mario Power Tennis even more :dance3:

The Japanese Cover:

damn, the japanese like their design bitsy don't they?

Looks a bit better than the NTSC version, but there's too much crap on it.

Well if the previous PAL Resident Evil covers are anything to go by, our version will be much more simple and stylish :) .

Not bad I guess..

sweet i like it

Yeah actually same here. Despite the amount of stuff it still looks slick and um...exciting? Yes that'll do.

It's far too cluttered if you ask me, a Single Arwing rather than a few of them would have gone a lot better. And they should get rid of that land cruiser.

I love the new Logo though. :D

:woot: Nifty!

Yeah the logo looks quite cool.

Fox looks kiddy...



:P

Yeah, it's the smile. They should make him pull a face that screams 'I'm a total bad-arse' rather than 'I'm going to shoot you with my plastic phaser'.

Dig the new logo, hate the box art.

Eugh.