10 of the most beautiful box art designs in gaming

The gallery inside features games across multiple eras of the industry’s history, but they all share covers that beg for a second glance. Also, if there’s one thing to learn from this, it’s that Japan is far better at this sort of thing than us Americans.

[JeffGrubb]

Yeah, those FF covers were great.

[3GenGames]

I love the box art for the Genesis/Mega Drive homebrew Pier Solar. The game is good but all the audio and visuals are amazing.

http://upload.wikimedia.org...

[Bimkoblerutso]

I'd have mentioned Sam & Max: Hit the Road, Borderlands and Left 4 Dead too. The only ones I don't really think were are all that great from the list are Kingdom Hearts and Sonic and Knuckles. Nothing wrong with them, but they're kind of unremarkable in my opinion.

It's sad that in general Japan gets so much more interesting boxart than we do here in the US.

[miyamoto]

FF 6 really is one of the best.
Same with Assault Suit Leynos & Strider for Mega Drive.

[CanadianTurtle]

I definitely loved Resistance 1 and 3's box art. They portrayed the actual games very well.

I also adore FZero on the SNES box art as well.

[belac09]

japan does have waaaaay better game covers than we do. we have had a few though, i always love the shin megami tensei, tales of..., and final fantasy ones.