Fans underwhelmed by box art for upcoming Detroit: Become Human

By Michael Jackman on Fri, Mar 2, 2018 at 11:08 am

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Fans underwhelmed by box art for upcoming Detroit: Become Human

"Don't judge a book by its cover," they say. But video games, apparently, are fair game.

The controversial PS4 game Detroit: Become Human – to be released in May – showed off its cover today and fan reactions seemed to largely range between polite applause and thermonuclear attack.

The cover image, which features the face of an android with the Renaissance Center in the background, got these reactions online.

"It’s ... not great." –Allegra Frank, Polygon

"Seventy percent of it is a dude's face." –Acquiescence, Resetera

And, of course, you can expect the usual user-edited "fixes" to make you crack a smile.

Fixed: pic.twitter.com/5RER8FEiIO
— DryvBy (@DryvBy) March 1, 2018

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Born in 1969 at Mount Carmel hospital in Detroit, Jackman grew up just 100 yards from the Detroit city line in east Dearborn. Jackman has attended New York University, the School of Visual Arts, Northwestern University and Wayne State University, though he never got a degree. He has worked as a bar back, busboy,...

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