So you’ve read about the controversy on the PA on the Official XBox Magazine cover, and saw that Brother None already said that didn’t look the PA he saw on the Fallout 3 demo. Now Todd Howard, through a post of Community Manager Matt “Gstaff” Grandstaff finally confirmed that it isn’t in fact the in game PA. Here’s what Gstaff posted:
Gstaff: I shared some of the feedback you guys have been giving with Todd yesterday. He explained to me the following, which I thought you might find interesting:
Todd Howard: I agree, and I don’t think the cover shows him well. It all has to do with the FOV of the character when he got rendered for the cover image (it’s not in-game), it makes his head look huge and his torso look skinny. I assure you in-game, the armor looks much bulkier. See the other screenshots we released. Also, this power armor is specifically not the T-51b.
Thanks for the heads up Grobindonk.
Fallout 3: A Post Nuclear Blog 
I don’t understand how anyone at OXM thought this cover looked good.
Yeah, I was thinking the same thing myself.
Dudes, seriously…
* Nuclear explosion in the back ground
* Dude in armor walking right at you menacingly
How is that not a SLAM DUNK?
Funny thing, now that Howard and to a point Gstaff admit it does not look good and is a poor shot… you can re-read a lot of earlier posts where people said “It looks great!” or “I like it!”.
That forum can be a bit strange, yes 🙂
Just a tad.