Update: Over on the PlayStation Blog, developer Kojima Productions has offered a better look at Death Stranding's official box art.
Here's the standard edition:
And the steelbook:
Original Article: Hideo Kojima and friends have just wrapped up a panel at San Diego Comic-Con, and one of the more notable announcements to come out of it was Death Stranding's official PlayStation 4 box art. Just take a look at it below.
Coming courtesy of an attendee, the box art depicts a close-up of Sam Bridges himself staring off into space. It's simple but pretty effective, we're a fan of it at least. The panel also unveiled the game's steelbook, which comes as part of the title's special edition. Very similar in style to the standard box art, it again puts Norman Reedus' character on the front cover with a bit of muck and dirt across his face.
What do you make of this box art? Do you like its simplicity? Let us know in the comments below.
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that's weird it doesn't say only on ps4π.word β up son
Would have preferred if Yoji Shinkawa did the cover.
Kojima, my man, you should've let Shinkawa design the cover art...
I find it a little boring. Oh well. Game looks wacky so I guess the box art can be a little plain
@Frigate Right there with you!
It looks like a $5 dvd cover from walmart.
Hope that it doesn't represent the quality of the inside. It just looks uninspired.
The steelbook version looks way more balanced but I'm not sure what's going on with Norman's face. Is that dirt, camoflage or what..?
Looks off. Uninspiring.
Itβs good but I prefer zoomed-out view with madd and del toro characters, and with the game environment setting in the background.
I think the box art really shows the significance of Sam's character. It seems like Kojima-san made the box arts himself. So I guess he really owns the "A Hideo Kojima Game". Cheers!
Doesn't say "Only on PlayStation".
I guess the rumours of it possible going to PC might be true. Then again, neither did Judgment and so far it's only on PlayStation.
I guess we'll see.
There best be a female Norman Reedus reversible cover.
I'd rather it showed what hes looking at. Also is the mud meant as a reflection sort of?
@GADG3Tx87
Maybe xbox Germany is going to post a nice trailer? Haha
@JoeBlogs Yeah i have that with a lot of games lately.
@Neolit
In 2003 I was in a bus and there was a guy on there with a friend. He had just bought MGS3 day one. He said to his friend, "it doesn't look like much, looking at the box".
I sat in thought, "if you only knew".
I was on the bus to buy that game that day myself, and it was glorious.
Moral of the story. The saying of books is true for games too.
The standard has nicer boxart than the steelbook, but neither of them is that nice to be honest.
@GADG3Tx87 the European boxart for MGS 3 is godlike, shots on the US boxart. Also are you a time traveller, MGS3 released 2004/2005 lol
@ZeroAbbadon
Must have been 2004. I'm getting old, memory is not what it used to be. π
βone of the more notable announcements to come out of it was Death Stranding's official PS4 boxart. β
What a non event it must have been if this was one of the more notable announcements
The box art's fine, better than Witcher 3's. With all the digital sales I wonder if box art really matters anymore. HZD making me look forward to this though, Kojima is on another level with cinematics and storytelling but I don't really trust his gameplay.
no shinkawa art is unfortunate... but i suppose they want this game to have nothing to do with the metal gear identity which that would bring. it would confuse people into thinking death stranding is related to metal gear. this art can't be final, though, since it is guaranteed to be a playstation exclusive and lacks the label. i know how much kojima wants this to be a universal experience, and that includes getting the pc players on-board, but he sacrificed any chance of that happening when he went with the decima (sony proprietary) engine. sorry kojima san back to the topic at hand... the box art is generic and predicable. i am numb on it.
I like it. But tbh when it's sat in your shelf or whatever you have you'll only see the spine bit so it doesn't really matter
I like it, the steelbook one looks like an album cover. They've gone for a more refined kind of look than the typical videogame boxes, which tend to look like the cover to a comic.
@Porco It's not exactly guaranteed. It makes sense it would be but it's odd they haven't boasted of it being exclusive if it is. Detroit: Become Human is published by Sony but is on PC as well now. Sony put money into SFV but it's on PC.
I think it's ok. Better than the placeholder with a plain black background, but you'd think with the creativity of this game, the box art would match it.
@Matroska Youre game is releasing soon. πhttps://www.play-asia.com/indivisible-multi-language/13/70cv6h
There's much better key art for this game, but I think these companies must just have a lot of data about what works in stores. Hopefully there's a much cooler reversible.
@GADG3Tx87 Judgement is definitely headed to PC. Yakuza 0 and both Kiwami's have done great on Steam.
Yeah, this cover is kinda bland. Same with the US MGS4 box, and GZ/TPP. Just a close up of the main character's face. I get why though, Norman will draw in the "normie" crowd, as it were. I also can't help but notice that it looks like the ingame visuals, rather than a higher quality CG render. The character models look good enough to be fair so it wouldn't surprise me.
Looks boring π€·ββοΈ
Reminds me slightly of the box of detroit become human, also with a big head on there. But somehow i liked that one much better. There was also a futuristic city in the background. But may be i just don't care about this game, so why bother caring about its box...
Hm... No Only on PS logo interesting.
@Flaming_Kaiser Nice! Though weird it's not on Amazon yet.
Better then Cyberpunk.. lol.
Love this.
@Matroska I dont know where the Developer is stationed.
Don't like it, the art of good box design seems to have gone.
@Flaming_Kaiser They're American, it's the people that worked on Skullgirls. Maybe the physical version is only in Asia?
@Matroska And Japan seems to get more complete editions with everything on disk too.
Skullgirls was solid but i suck at fighters. π
Still waiting for Icey on Limited Run Games they announced it 2 years ago. π
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