Monday, August 22, 2011

How can I identify the regional version of Painkiller Resurrection from the disc/cover art?

Question

It looks like there are no less than three different cover arts and two different disc arts for the game Painkiller Resurrection.

I figured that it is probably just a regional thing (eg North America release, UK release), so I tried looking up some information on what the differences are, but the closest that I could find was that one of them may be an Australian release (from a non-authoritative source).

Can anyone enlighten me as to the disparate cover- and disc-arts?


North American release?

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European release?

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Australian release?

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European disc?

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Australian disc?

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Answer

Going by the different rating systems it appears that:

  • These covers are rated by ESRB and so are from North America or Canada.

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Also the RP (Rating Pending) on the above cover means it hasn't been given a rating yet and will be from before the game was released, so could well be promotional box art that was never used on retail boxes

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  • This cover is rated by PEGI and so must be European (and is used on the UK cover)

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  • Also this appears to be the Australian cover:

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  • And this one I believe is from the Polish release:

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And as for the discs, the first one is a custom cover, which looks to be just a cd shaped cutout of the second cover, and the second looks like its from the Polish release, but could also be from the other European one too

Hope this helps

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