Just look at the lips, squinty eyes and Wakka hair on this magnificent specimen. I wonder what female Japanese gamers would have thought of THIS Solid Snake 
Also, why does this very green and EXTREMELY 90s looking Meryl have some kind of Iron Age shortsword on her belt?
I have to know if this magazine was around for MGS2- their version of Raiden must have been transcendent. They would've probably drawn him to look like Dolph Lundgren as He-Man
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I just chortled at this goofy magazine cover illustration but apparently someone at Konami liked it enough that it was actually used as the cover for the manual of MGS: Integral in Japan
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These were literally drawn by a comic book artist. Joe Madureira. He worked on Uncanny X-Men and he's also worked in video game development. He helped with the designs for Darksiders
Now these covers are kind of goofy, but they're also pretty cool. The guy's a talented artist. He's just infused with the essence of the '90s
Yeah, from what I read it looks like they hired actual comic book artists to draw each of these covers, and not like, the editor's nephew like I had assumed