Cover Art

[GooeyToast]

Okay. Now as we all know, a game's cover art can greatly increase or decrease the sales of a particular product. Nowadays, people look for the flashiest, sexiest, and coooolist box art on the shelves.

So this raises a few questions:

Have you ever bought a game purely because of the box art?

What are your favorite/least favorite cover arts, or whch ones were you dissappointed by?


My favorites would have to be: (these are mostly Amercian btw)

KH (AM: this is one my the best I've seen for PS2)
FF X (Amercian: I really like the picture of Tidus coming out of the water.)
Jade Empire (AM: I've yet to play the game, but the art looks very glossy and high class)
SO III (AMthe slip-case cover definetly played a role in my purchase)
GTA games (AM: the whole collage thing looks very original and easily distinctive from the other games)
Racthet & Clank Going Commando: (AM:this cover looked very shiny, and that usually makes it attractive. The flames were awesome as well)
We Love Katamari (Jap version: I think this is the first box art ive seen with a picture of an actual place on it. Too bad the Amercian one sucks)
Ico (JP: The simple colored-pencil styled cover is leaps and bounds ahead of it's Amercian predecessor)
Dark Cloud 2 (AM: Very colorful background; I think this was one of the main reasons i bought it.)
RE 4 (AM: The zombies chasing Leon adds nicely to the game's atmosphere)

Some of my least favs/dissapointments:

God of War (AM:I liked the cover, but a close-up of Kratos or something would have been much cooler IMO. The blue background just didnt fir for me.)
Red Faction: (AM:wtf? a red gun? okay then.)
Earthbound: (AM: Man, this one makes me sad because maybe if the AM cover was more interesting than just a pic of Giygas, then it might have sold much better.)
LoZ: WW (AM: this one is just too simple. Maybe a nice color pic of Link or Windfall Island would have been better. Hopefully TW will have something other than the "goldish Zelda art")
Half-Life 2 (AM: Great game, but the cover was kinda boring. But it does make up points for the multiple faces on them)
We Love Kata: (AM: I wish they would have just kept the Jap version. Of course, we always get the [img]/xxx.gif[/img][img]/xxx.gif[/img][img]/xxx.gif[/img][img]/xxx.gif[/img]ty ones. :rolleyes2 )

I'll probably remember more later. My brain is getting fried from staring at this monitor for so long.