Never trust a box folks.
Yesterday, MKSkillz sent us a link to Play.com showing off what might be the Sonic Unleashed Box art. While we always appreciate the heads up — we don’t always post about leads if there doesn’t seem to be enough substance behind them.
I think we might need to take a step back here. While this certainly looks compelling, I’m going to suggest that this might not be the official art for the game. It could be. But folks are jumping to conclusions it seems.
If you want my honest opinion, the “Box Art” in question looks like it could be a Photoshop mock-up. I know it’s on Amazon, so it must be official, right!? Well, not so much, as Amazon allows users to upload their own product images, and it’s not rare to see placeholders for upcoming games in online stores like this.
So in short, I don’t mean to be raining on this parade, but I do think we should take one tiny step back and wait for the official word from SEGA before making any final judgment calls here.
after looking closely compare the sonic half to other unleashed sonic renders and you’ll find that they’re similar style therefore i think that sega did make this and it’s real
@RGamer: you just might be right those are very good observations, i think that the cover is very cool and detailed has a sonic feel but looks very suspicious let’s compare it to mario and sonic at the olympics
http://news.bbc.co.uk/nol/shared/spl/hi/pop_ups/07/technology_enl_1175084658/img/1.jpg
and sonic unleashed boxart
http://gonintendo.com/?p=52431
when u compare they look the same but.. where would the person who made the “fake” (if it is ) cover get the werehog part?
It looks verrrry official to me…
But I think I might have caught somethings that proves me wrong.
The pic with Sonic & the Werehog running together. I think Sonics arm is from that picture. The Werehog arm on the box art flipped could be the Werehog Arm from that pic. Also the Sonic/Werehog head on the box looks like that comparison head from a while back.
And did anyone catch how similar this pose looks to the one Sonic used on the Mario & Sonic @ The Olympic Games box art?
It could very well be a excellent Photoshop as well…
..but I’m making these comparisons as I see them, so they could be wrong or correct. I have no Idea.
it does look kinda accurate but who knows…. sick people like to trick others by abusing their Photoshop power…. >.>
mayb this boxart was done in paint, they just copied parts (like the shoes, hand, weresonic hair) and pasted them over the sonic from the olympic games, and then they did that background. i’m just saying it b/c my cousin can do that very nicely, although she isn’t into sonic very much.
@RaveToTheGrave: Well, kinda….In the boxart of Mario and Sonic, his hand positioning is different, the perspective is more the side, the shoe is different as well, and his smile would be on the left side, in other words you’ll see a smile on the Sonic side of this boxart. But other than that your kinda right, it looks a bit similar.
hmm.. that does look very legit.. I think it is real boxart though Sonic on the left side kind of looks like Sonic from the box art of Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Gmaes
Or better the psm3 magazine
@UmbreonTheDark:
The sonic picture could have been from the Game Master magazine
the background looks boring, they should put like a place in the game, an important place, like say… EARTH. i like the idea of just sonic in the boxart. Never been a fan of the other characters in the sonic universe, i think there should only be sonic, eggman, tails, knuckles, and mayb amy, but she shouldn’t be a playable character. but those r just my thoughts
@UmbreonTheDark: Well, actually the background is ok, but I would’ve preferred more land with detail and stuff, like the one from the magazine that had china devided in half with the night and day. Not saying this is bad, I just thought that the art could’ve been better for the backround.
I should stop complaining, the art isn’t even that important for the game. But its ok if it really turns out to be real.
@sonic 06: Well, the picture itself looks to be real. There hasn’t been either an image of Sonic or his were form that has those poses from what I remember, but you have to admit that the background looks really bland and boring.
just my thoughts though.
it looks like the background could be from the wallpaper from the previous post exept the earth part.
the picture on the other hand is unique.
overall it looks good but to good to be true.
Meh…I dunno….
that look so cool!
i don’t know wat is happening, hoe do u use the @person name thing?
Pretty cool and looks totally legit.
sorry, where i wrote the “@ thing” on the second line, i meant the @ thing. how does that work?
this is my second comment. by the way… wat r thos @ things u ppl write about? i know the @ thing (though i don’t know how it works), but wat about the others (if there is any others)?
KC Cross, ur boxart is very cool
about that Chip guy from the manga… i think that, if he is a character in SU, than he might by like Shahra in SatSR. like just someone who helps u out, but that isn’t a playable character. and mayb the boxart was made by amazon UK to get ppl more excited about it, cuz amazon US doesn’t have it. then mayb other retailers thought it was the real one and used it themselves. but it is still nice.