UK Box Cover

[Ctrl E]

Somebody really needs to approach romain hugault. He is known to be a big fan if the il2 series. I think he even skin il2 aircraft

http://romain-hugault.blogspot.com/

[Robotic Pope]

Originally Posted by Ctrl E

Somebody really needs to approach romain hugault. He is known to be a big fan if the il2 series. I think he even skin il2 aircraft

http://romain-hugault.blogspot.com/

His stuff is awesome too. Though if you let him loose on the box art you might risk the pegi rating rising a couple more lol. I'm all for it though .

By the way do you think it is language or gore that has taken the rating up so much higher than old IL-2?

[Mr_Zooly]

I was wondering about the rating also, maybe its another thing we'll have to wait and see about.

[Blackdog_kt]

Who knows, maybe there is "ketchup" splattering on the canopies after a head on pass

(i seriously doubt it to be honest, but it's no harm guessing)

[Erkki]

Horrible art...

Spitfire's missing spinner, 109's tail struts, how the heck is the 109 burning MID WING, the Heinkels flying West along the coast, where are the pilots? All cloud and sea and land and smoke. And dont the Heinkels seem like they fly above/below of each other? Add the silly crown above the word "of".

[Erkki]

Originally Posted by Robotic Pope

Well seeing as the OP commented on the artwork and not the title or lettering i didn't comment on that again . I made my opinion clear on that in a previous thread.

I just don't understand why game covers are almost always cheap computer generated art. Ubisoft could have easily comisioned a real artist like Ronald Wong http://www.ronaldtkwong.com/gallery/...iationart.html to paint something that would really have looked awesome. This is what books do afterall, and you don't see the front cover of a book and expect it to be full of paintings do you.

Sry for double post... But the same with original FB. Forgotten Battles, with a Hurricane and a Stuka?

How about?



Only few things worse than overdone photoshopping...

Originally Posted by Tacoma74

Well even if they have to take their system over to a buddys house or grandmas to activate the game it's not a huge effort to do so. I know that's what I would do if I personally didn't have internet. And if they didn't have any friends or relatives with internet than I don't see how they would even know what Cliffs of Dover is... unless they hang out on a computer at the library or something. But my point is that just because you don't have internet doesn't mean that its the end of the road for you. Install the game and take your tower over to a buddys, a relative, or maybe a nice neighbors house and activate it. Problem solved.

I see what your saying that its easy to do, provided you make all that extra effort, after you have already paid for the game, just to play it.
We are living in an age were the customer isnt right any more, the company is right, and us the consumer has to do this running around, worst still we are expected to do it if we like something, I guess people will tollerate this because we have become used to it, when i first started buying games, they were playable, fully, out of the box.

Personally I think its just another part of how games publishers can control buyers just like they have done with console gaming, locking content already in game and selling as a DLC pack later is the final stage of the process, before this comes dividing the community to force the buy. See it done a lot over the last 10 years with many of my favourite games. And they shocking part is that they dont even need to employ someone to defend or their actions because they have seen that misguided people thinking they are defending devs or the game, will do it for them. (In no way saying thats what you are doing Tacoma)

I feel that this type of "making the customer work for the game, after paying for it" is the grooming stage of the DLC nightmare thats looming on the horizon now for PC gamers. But hey thats a different subject. Guess cos I'm older I'm stuck back there in the boring olden days, pointing my finger at new fangled technologies

I understand the efforts these publisher compaines go to to stop piracy but they never work, and the paying customer has to suffer for it, ie taking your computer over to someone how has internet just to activate your game.

[Mysticpuma]

Well, although I should be making Part 2 of Checkertails.....I had a little play with the Cover Art;



Cheers, MP

[T}{OR]

Why they didn't hire you Mystic is beyond me...

[Mysticpuma]

Cheers, Thor.

I'm not sure it shows up, but the text is actually made with the Cliffs of Dover inside it?

Just thought it would add a little to the 'story'.


Cheers, MP