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What are the favourite 'types' of people used on video game box-art?

We find out who is the ultimate front cover hero

Words: Matt Cundy, GamesRadar UK
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cart00n  - 5 months 21 hours ago 
@oryandymackie: Not to mention the fact that your SR2 character has every chance to look nothing AT ALL like the character on the cover - my SR2 "hero" was a chick wearing pig-tails! In other words, showing the dude's face on the cover would've been pointless in this particular game's case.
FrozenImplosion  - 5 months 21 hours ago 
Oh.. the [PROTOTYPE] box is my favorite box art for quite some time. I also liked the first Kingdom Heart's box art.
blu_dud  - 5 months 21 hours ago 
PROTOTYPE! YAY!
@Harmon- that would be the most original and boring box art EVA!
StrayGator  - 5 months 21 hours ago 
are manga characters considered white?
civver  - 5 months 20 hours ago 
20% and 42/100 aren't majorities. Just saying.
MacGyver1138  - 5 months 20 hours ago 
@StrayGator: I was wondering the same thing. I would think a lot of manga/anime characters would be considered Asian or Oriental, which would make them non-white. (Though I have never really understood that, as many Asian people have skin tone that is almost identical to the "typical" white person.)
ViolentLee  - 5 months 20 hours ago 
Suck on that, iNFAMOUS! ;)
oreomonkey  - 5 months 20 hours ago 
I wouldn't say he is holding that weapon, next time lets aim for Assassin's Creed. He actually holds them.
oreomonkey  - 5 months 20 hours ago 
He hold the WEAPONS, I know how you guys are, you'll make that sound gay.
Spybreak8  - 5 months 20 hours ago 
haha, interesting. I love that artists don't like to have to draw faces, me either. ^^
Spybreak8  - 5 months 20 hours ago 
Oh and I think the ultimate box art is Fable II. Series white male holding weapons, no head clothing though, with a demon shadow. Then on the other side, that's right we've got a two sided box art, a series male Demon with a good character shadow. This box art in relation to what makes Fable II, (Good and Evil) are perfect in my opinion.
Evan_007  - 5 months 20 hours ago 
I was going to comment on Vin Diesel's whiteness but apparently several people have beaten me to it.
flareboy18  - 5 months 19 hours ago 
Wait, Alex Mercer isnt white, he is whatever he just consumed!
GlassPants  - 5 months 18 hours ago 
I found this informative and surprisingly disturbing. I don't care if I'm looking too deep, but every ad person in gaming SHOULD read this article.

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However, being EXTREMEXXXLY racist I approve of the IDEAL box-art person.
lovinmyps3  - 5 months 17 hours ago 
@Grenade/kubes
I think Vin Diesel is only part white.
Leader601  - 5 months 16 hours ago 
Onechanbara = x.x happiness
Snarf  - 5 months 15 hours ago 
But Vin Diesel is white and you said he isn't. Just because you are in shadows doesn't mean you are black.
crustdbeat  - 5 months 15 hours ago 
arent riddick and the saints row2 guy crackers?

they sho looks it.
crustdbeat  - 5 months 15 hours ago 
oh ok so everyone notices that vin diesel is white.....
but automatically the saints row 2 guy is black or mexican because of his bandana maybe?
hr sure looks white
zayleffein  - 5 months 14 hours ago 
Whaaat?! You mean scantily-clad big breasted women aren't the winner? I am pleased to think that a tragic hero, and not an overly sexxed, ill-proportioned female, would appeal to the masses. Despite the strange way GR determined the results, maybe this shows that people enjoy a good story over alien sex or tit physics.
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