Cover Art Comparison - Guess the franchise.

Earthquakes based games almost seem to be the only type of disaster survival games. The artwork of Disaster Report looks much better than the one of Raw Danger.

WOW...... the american versions look like covers of chapter books...
they should of kept the same covers as japan..... sigh

Wow, not that many cases of the North American cover looking better than the Japanese covers. The Japanese versions look very bland and has no "personality", the North American covers put them to shame.

In the Japanese covers, I couldn't tell what was going on in the red and blue parts. At least in the U.S covers, it shows what kind of scenarios your characters will be in.

Raw Danger sounds like an adult movie title...

I'm not sure how they managed to convince Ashley Olsen to pose for the first American cover.

I liked the design of the Japanese covers more, but the American ones does do a lot better of visually describing the game.

i wish i could see more of this on the feed, besides these two games there are only 3 or 4 more survival disaster games... or "real" survival games, not the horror type.. there are too many survival horror games.

Not only a better cover but the most awesome action in a game the "Hey" button

These do look like covers for those really lame and short chapter books you read in fifth grade.

yeah, why isnt there like tornado survival? or... panda attack survival?

i'm guessing those sold better in america.

As much of a fan as I am of the Japanese minimalist art covers, I do believe that the American ones are definitely more suited to 'catching the attention of the buyer'.

Though granted, they could've done a better job with the covers not looking so... Cheeze whiz...

Y'know, I truly had a feeling for a second that those could be the Disaster Report game covers, because while Brad was playing the first I snooped around wikipedia about the series and this is what the box art for the third game (Only for PSP and no releasee outside of Japan) looks like.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/b8/Disaster_Report_3_Coverart.png

Personally, I don't think the Japanese covers suit the series. I mean they're a hell of a lot better than those piece of shit 5 minute photoshop job ones, but the JP ones make the game seem much more better than it is. As Brad would delicately put it, these covers seem too 'artsy fartsy' for a game where dialogue constistantly cuts off in mid speech and a metropolitan city is populated with only 9 people and a puppy.

I cant wait for I Am Alive because that is suppose to be a disaster survival.

Also, I'm sure Brad knows or has probably even played this game, but Distaster: Day of Crisis looks very similar to Disaster Report, but with more cheese and action thrown in. Downside, it is a Wii game. I dunno if it supports the Classic Controller, but I will say that the game does look like it involves a lot of waggling. Still, it could be a fun game to play on the feed for laughs. At least the box art cover for the game is a) suitable to the theme of the game and b) not shit.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/2f/Disaster_Day_of_Crisis.jpg

Also, this might not be something that Brad would take notice of but would most definitely hype up fans of his, the game involves a bear.

Oh wow! That is freaking awesome.

RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAW DANGEEER

Loved that game for the afro you can find alone.

There are similar differences with the Final Fantasy covers. Europe and I think Japan get this style of white design for each game. http://img20.imageshack.us/img20/4651/ffxeu.jpg

While America seem to get. http://img15.imageshack.us/img15/1783/ffxamr.jpg

@thecosmicfly: Day of Crisis hasn't got a US release yet. I managed to play it a couple of days ago and was completely put off by the waggle bullshit and the constant light gun shootouts with soldiers who seem to come at you in the hundreds during the middle of an earthquake.

all i got to say after reading this.
is, brad, BRING IT!

Wow, what a difference. I personally thought that those two covers that the Japanese put out looked like something out of an RPG game. Though I think that the American covers look like some shit job, I can't really judge the game since I haven't played either of them.

Personally, I like the Japanese covers alot more. I don't know why but, I just like the color scheme and the blandness of it. The North American covers make me a sad panda though.

i like the Japanese covers better because even though they are hard to make out, it seems more ominous.

Yet another example of different game covers.

i kinda liked the japanese versions better.

Yeah, the Americanized covers reminds of us of our days trolling in the elementary school library but I think are better at advertising what the game is. Whereas the japanese covers were unintelligible (but still neat looking). Hell, I had to glance downwards on the Brad comment to know what the games were.

Honestly i like the japanese covers far more
but thats just my opinion

Oh man, my friend offered me these games but I turned them down, I want thme now but he sold them....gahhh!

The Japanese covers look visually beautiful with the color and mixture, But it doesn't go with the game. The American cover looks very nice and it goes with the game well so is the European one. Yet, the 2 in front does not look like the main characters.

I just want to know what is up with the faces of the people on Raw Danger.

Also, Raccoonboi, if you look close enough to the red and blue parts of the japanese covers, you can see that there are disasters going on in that little area.

The north American covers are like front covers of book from the 1970's :). I quite like the sort of post-modern minimalism of the japanese covers.

The Boxcar Children #432: Disaster Survival

This is as bad as - no, this is the worst example of Japanese-to-English translation I've seen in a while. Now if the titles were all comic-book covers like the American ones, we wouldn't be having this discussion.

raw danger i think is a decent game