Gearbox Software president and CEO Randy Pitchford says that the box art featured in Call of Duty WWII is a rip-off of the old Brothers in Arms from 2008.
Call of Duty WWII is the next installment in the hugely successful Call of Duty franchise and it's not even out yet. A full reveal is set for next week and the game already stirred great hype, but it also sparked some controversy regarding its WWII storyline and its box art.
Call Of Duty WWII Art Stolen From Brothers In Arms?
Pitchford took to Twitter to drop a bomb, calling out the uncanny similarity between the Call of Duty WWII box art and the Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway official art. Pitchford even posted a side-by-side comparison of the two games's art and it does indeed bear a striking resemblance.
I'll just leave this right here. pic.twitter.com/Id29bfTaU7
— Randy Pitchford (@DuvalMagic) April 21, 2017
Both Call of Duty WWII and Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway place the action in a World War II setting and both depict the wartime nearly identically, down to the close-ups of the soldier's face.
In another tweet, Pitchford posted another image of a Brothers in Arms limited edition cover that again looks strikingly similar to the Call of Duty WWII box art recently shown in an Amazon UK listing. Check out a collage of these two images side by side:
