Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic (2003)Īping the infamous Drew Struzan film posters, the box art for Knights of the Old Republic manages to blend its own characters into the classic Star Wars aesthetic. The box art for Armored Core V is simplistically insightful - buy this game for bullets, mechs and lens flare.
TOMBA PS1 COVER ART SERIES
Vice City represents the series on our list thanks to its classic neon typography. The GTA cover art has been of an exceptional quality since Grand Theft Auto III. Sweeping, mythical and brilliantly simple. One of the PlayStation 2's most popular titles, Final Fantasy X's box art is bite-the-back-of-your-hand beautiful. It has something to do with starting fires in the desert. The cover of this seminal RTS is certainly brooding, but not terribly informative. Grand, brooding and industrial, how can you not want to plug this in?Ī cover worthy of hanging on your wall, depicting the game's three protagonists gazing out over a gorgeous vista begging to be explored. The box art for Awesome fulfils the title's promise. We just can't stop looking at it.įrom an era in which box art hinted at the grand visions the game's designers had attempted to capture in pixels, the Phoenix cover art is superbly over-the-top. The Japanese cover of this side-scrolling aerial war game is the epitome of steampunk. Sonic was such an iconic character by 1994 that Sega were able to heighten the cool factor by reducing the insatiable hedgehog to this moody silhouette. The US version of the cover couldn't be more ugly by contrast. Beautifully built, it played like a work of art.
This boy-meets-girl story was as minimalist as its cover suggests. Think we missed any major contenders? Let us know in the comments below. This is our list of the 50 greatest video game covers of all time. Others choose the exact opposite, going for clean, striking designs that pull in inquisitive minds. Some covers in this list opt for the grand and epic, choosing to dress up their game with a touch of artistic licence (just check out the Tetris cover in our selection). Designers and artists face the challenge of balancing a game's content with enough action and entertainment to draw the eye of a passing gamer/mother, hoping their art will convince the customer that their game is worthy of purchasing.
0 kommentar(er)
