As youāre no doubt aware, American publishers sometimes like to mess around with a foreign gameās box art before releasing it in the US. Yakuza 3 is the latest target of this practice.
Gone is the stark white background of the Japanese cover, perhaps because ā since itās a trademark of a series people in the US may not know has a trademark cover theme ā itās not needed.
Gone also is the prominent cigarette, though with smoking being eradicated from most forms of popular American culture, thatās no big surprise.
You can see the original Japanese cover below. While thereās a whiff of ā2003 Xbox gameā about the US redesign, all things considered, it could have been much worse.
Weāre not sure if this art will apply to the European version as well; if we find out, weāll update.
[via Gamefly]
