For those that might not know, the covers for Borderlands and Borderlands 2 feature a psycho, arguably the most iconic enemy in the franchise, putting finger guns to his head with the corresponding exit wound showing a splattering of game art. The first cover had one such splatter and finger gun, and the second had two. The third cover, it stood to reason, should have three, but how does one put three finger guns on a cover when the psycho only has two hands?
"Trust me, we figured it out," Borderlands 3 art director Scott Kester reportedly told Game Informer in an interview earlier this year when asked about the potential cover. "I'm trying to get it as an alternate cover, maybe we can throw one in as the Naked Gun kind. We've done a lot. But honestly, we thought this game needed to shift gears a little bit, so we thought [the Borderlands 3 art] was the way to do that."
While it's unclear if Kester ever explicitly said the psycho had three hands, it's certainly how it got reported at the time. The developer recently exhibited at San Diego Comic-Con 2019, however, and included a Museum of Mayhem which featured concept art for the game, including alternate cover art. "Wonder if we tried fitting a third finger gun into the box art?" the company's blog post about the exhibit states. "Wonder no more!"
Wonder no more, indeed, as new photos of that exhibit have emerged, showing a variety of different key art and alternate covers -- including one where, instead of a third finger gun, there is a foot gun. Yes, a foot gun; it would appear that the psycho has contorted to twist its foot (or potentially some other unfortunate soul's foot?) into the correct position to maintain the cover schema.
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Source: https://comicbook.com/gaming/2019/07/21/borderlands-3-finger-gun-cover-revealed-sdcc-2019/
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