[QUOTE="Mordred19"][QUOTE="FrozenLiquid"][QUOTE="Mordred19"] [QUOTE="FrozenLiquid"]I saw the official boxart. Now that's a Warhol masterpiece :?FrozenLiquid
what? less is more in this case. it doesn't need flashy in-your-face graphics to woo people. I like the simplicity of it.
What does it tell you? What is the message? Of course it doesn't need anything flashy, but what does a red eye on the face of an old man have to do anything with the themes in MGS IV? At least this one is an introspective look at the struggle of Solid Snake. What's that one? Perhaps you could extrapolate it's the fusion of man and machine. But is that the most important idea in Guns of the Patriots? The most significant part of the art, I think, is the way it is being rendered. Take a close look at the whole thing. It almost looks like you're looking at his face through an LCD screen. a battered, worn out LCD screen with a poor signal. I think this has something to do with information. monitoring, accuracy, ect, and snake is in the center of it all. he's on a battlefield, this is like a final visual feed from a damaged machine. the MK II drone, or maybe one of those unmanned Gekko weapons? maybe the seemingly obsolete presentation (grainy, crude) is a connection or reference to the old NES game, the beginning of the series.
maybe.
Perhaps. But that's what I was alluding to before. It seems to be the idea of technology or something. I thought maybe it could have hinted at those new Metal Gear machines but that's a far out assumption with no support to back it up. It doesn't give off minimalist vibes like the Halo 3 picture, as it is a closeup and Snake has his poker face on. But the feeling I'm getting is that it's just there to sell the product, like Halo 3's boxart. I wonder why Snake is touching is face though.really? I'm getting the opposite impression from it.
to me, the boxart is the exact opposite of anything that would scream out: "Hey you! Look at me! I'm an action game! Buy me! Buy me!" :P
I don't see why the H3 cover is more minimalist. As for snake touching his face, I think that is him turning on the solid eye device. in cutscenes, he's shown switching some button on it to activate it.
Now that, is wicked. 
Both are really only messages to fans, but no one else. I must admit though, Halo 3's cover is better than I thought it was. They put the colour theory to good use here. 
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