The 12 Best Video Game Box Arts of 2012

"As games move in an increasingly digital direction, a trail of dead, once tangible media lay in their path. Gaming manuals are all but gone, pull-out posters are nowhere to be found, and box covers are being relegated to tiny thumbnails in the corners of your gaming download service of preference.

So while this might be one of the last years of video games having actual box art (or for that matter, actual boxes) it wasn't exactly a slouch of a year from an artistic perspective. To truly get a picture of how successful a video game box cover is at properly conveying what a game promises to deliver, try and imagine the following covers stripped of all logos and labels and see them for just their individual art. Here are the twelve best video game box arts of 2012."











The 12 Best Video Game Box Arts of 2012 - IGN

Feel free to list some of the box arts you guys thought were good.

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[pic] @ The Walking Dead being there.

NSMBU case is really colorful. !! stands out next to all my games just like the red NSMBWii one did. Out of all those I like the Xenoblade one the most.

the big picture version of the gravity rush cover is my wallpaper

its dope

I'd have to go with AC3, I think.

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Nothing special about that boxart in the slightest.

[pic] diablo 3

I never said there was. It's just my favorite. So...[pic]

halo 4/diablo 3

still wanna start a new character on this

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I want whatever the hell the Blue Yoshi is smoking [pic][pic]

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1. tokyo jungle
2. Gravity rush
3. Sleeping dogs
4. Xenoblade

I think so. Its classy and clean and captures the Hitman game perfectly. The special edition box is really bad[..]. Dishonored though?

Company I work for made this. The back and forth that went to get the cover to be this... My god. I was surprised this wasn't on the list honestly because I thought we made a kcikass cover for far cry 3