Guitar Hero 5 Box Art
Activision's next Guitar Hero instalment will stand out on shelves. It looks crap.Published 23/06/2009 at 16:45 by djhsecondnature
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As an avid plastic-guitar-wielding fan, my ears perk up like a small dog when any new information on the next music game is revealed. Now I know the differences between each release isn’t huge, but I just like more songs to play really. Alas, my excitement was quickly dashed when my eyes lay upon Activision’s Guitar Hero 5 box art. I swear we’re well into June now, so surely this is too late for an April Fool’s. To say it’s boring and bland is being quite kind as I expect there is graphic designer currently looking for a new job after he pressed print before he was meant to. You may disagree with me and feel free to, but the surely the text at the bottom should be on the back of the box?
With 85 songs by a variety of 83 artists, there is certainly a lot more content on its way, and with the addition of ‘Jump in/Jump out play’ and the ability to ‘play any combination of instruments’, this release could be another great party game. However, if this is what your coming releases will look like in stores Activision, perhaps you can keep them.
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HITMAN999 | 23/06/2009 16:46
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Should be interesting
AllTheApesEscaped | 23/06/2009 16:47
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kill it with fire! ¬_¬ (not a fan of GH)
hannes_truce | 23/06/2009 16:50
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It looks like the cover of some poor quality indie compilation album/ sampler.
Triggerhappytel | 23/06/2009 18:17
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Agreed. That looks terrible and low-budget for a multi-billion dollar franchise.
CaptainMurdo | 23/06/2009 16:50
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That looks very dull and the 5 is too rounded. Also, too many words for a cover.
RocketSOL | 23/06/2009 16:51
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Urgh, that’s nasty!
Argon123 | 23/06/2009 16:54
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poor compared to its competition.at least people will see it and buy for the actual game not pulled in by a nice box art.
Triggerhappytel | 24/06/2009 11:14
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People will buy it anyway because it’s Guitar Hero, regardless of what the box art looks like. It’s quite clever listing some of the artists on the front, *as older people will recognise artists they are familiar with (Bob Dylan, The Stones, Santana) and younger people will see modern bands they know (Coldplay, Muse, Kings of Leon), so it caters for a wide audience at just a quick glance.
That doesn’t stop it looking ugly as hell though!
* Yes, I am generalising.
2ofclubs | 23/06/2009 16:56
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It looks like this art should be on a free CD with a music mag rather than on the front of a game. Not impressed but fingers crossed it might not be final?
LiquescentShadow | 23/06/2009 16:57
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Awful, just awful.
Box art is supposed to catch your eye and make you pick the case up to read the back, but they’ve made the cover look horrible and the writing is on the front. It’s all wrong.
LivedeviL | 23/06/2009 16:58
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I’m still undecided whether to buy as it just seems like a rehash of older GH games (yes, I know there are other songs in there not on previous ones)
It just seems like a desperate attention grabber… if I see it cheap on the other hand…
CrazyKrissZ | 23/06/2009 17:00
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The cover looks like a rusty dumpster… but with 85 songs, it might be me first GH or RB buy ever.
…or maybe not. I’ll practice on a real guitar insteed. Easier to bring in camping then a PS3, a 42″ LCD TV and a GH kit!
stefhutch20 | 23/06/2009 17:10
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“but with 85 songs, it might be me first GH or RB buy ever”
Yeah, but to be fair GH: WT has 86 songs on disc, and RB2 has 84 songs on disc, so this number of songs isn’t anything new. However, as a fan of both GH and RB (although in my opinion RB is slightly better) I’ll probably still get it.
CrazyKrissZ | 23/06/2009 17:29
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Didn’t knew there were that much music on these games. I played GH II only twice, but didn’t got hooked. So I’m kinda surprise about that amount of music. I thought it was about 40 songs per game + DLC.
djdustb | 23/06/2009 17:01
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Not the best box art as such, but it will do a job, you can see that on the shelf in any store and know straight away what is on the disk without having to get it down or anything. (Yes I realise just how lazy that sounds)
Bilbo_bobbins | 23/06/2009 17:02
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I think it looks pretty cool to be honest. It looks like the front of a music magazine. Can’t be any worse than the other ones can it, with just a picture of a square headed rock star?
TheDeathAvenger | 23/06/2009 17:10
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Like Guitar Hero. Not got any of the games. I think it’s the price of the instruments that puts me off buying it.
CrazyKrissZ | 23/06/2009 17:32
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For me, it’s the repetitivness (is that a word??) and the load of crappy music you have to play (Hey, it’s not all music that is good!) that stopped me from buying it.
Got my dose of music game with Amplitude a couple of years ago. GH never evolved…
Kevling | 23/06/2009 17:22
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In fairness, they’ve done a decent job of updating the logo, keeping it close enough to the original version, but making it far more legible from a distance…
Look back at the original logo, and look at how cramped up and close together some of the letters are…
radiobridge | 23/06/2009 17:24
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Oh dear, Coldplay.