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The Worst Video Game Box Arts from the Past Decade

January 13, 2010 in Top List comments 11

Although it wasn’t nearly as bad as the infant years of the gaming industry, the past decade (2000-2009) has produced some of the worst looking video game box arts ever.

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    Storm Jan 13, 10
    Wow...ESRB should change the rating on that GBA game ASAP, the cover just screams Mature.

    Meh, doesn't matter what the cover is to me, not like we look at them for long, it's all about what the game contains. Long as that's good, they can put whatever they want outside.
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    reaver11 Jan 13, 10
    Other than being kinda of a bland artwork, what was wrong with Ico?
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    Slumpy monkey Jan 14, 10
    Whoa what the hell, the layout has changed ALOT.
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      BANDITO ATTACK Jan 14, 10
      ^x2

      what the hell is going on here
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        Miss Razz Jan 14, 10
        Whatchoo talkin' about? It's all sexy now
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          Big A2 Jan 14, 10
          It acctually looks like a site that posts it's own news.
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    Symphonic Abyss Jan 14, 10
    I agree with most of these, but I disagree with Dawn of Sorrow. The boxart looks perfectly fine in my opinion, but apparently, it doesn't look the same in other eyes.

    I remember playing a demo of ICO, and what it lacks in boxart "style", it makes up for in gameplay.
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      BANDITO ATTACK Jan 14, 10
      the thing with the dawn of sorrow boxart is that it showed the boxart on the games boxart.. with the nintendo DS sidebar, and all. it looks asinine to show a nintendo ds box on a nintendo ds box.

      other than the crappy animu-style characters, there's nothing bad about the original boxart. it just kinda sucks after how awesome the first one was
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    Ech0ez Jan 14, 10
    Damn, Ico's box art really does the game no justice whatsoever.
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      Daweii Jan 14, 10
      I think the page should just sum up that for the most part American box art designers are shit. I mean when I saw the ICO one I was like "WTF!?!" as the UK box art is so good. I don't understand how they get it so wrong, and it's not a new thing that the UK and Japan have always had better designed artwork either. I don't understand how the US designers keep getting it so very wrong.

      Just a comparison of the US ICO and the UK ICO for those that haven't seen the UK version before.



      By the way the UK art came in a special paper slip case to add to the rustic feel of the artstyle, so they even took that into consideration.
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    Capn Droid Jan 14, 10
    It's a real shame actually; how awesome a game Orange Box was, but how stupid the cover art was.

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