Dead Island Riptide’s boxart is bloody rubbish

GamesAsylum aren't too fond of Dead Island Riptide's boxart.

[bronxsta]

Actually I like it. No focus on the heroes or anything like that, just a bloody zombie rising from the water. Pure and simple

[WeskerChildReborned]

Yea same here, it looks pretty cool imo.

[NonShinyGoose]

It looks like a cover from an old Amiga game or similar. And on the logo the dead guy is *still* hanging from the leaf of the palm tree.

Have you ever tried to hang somebody from a leaf? It's very hard work.

[Ben_Grimm]

Ha, this is the new complaint going into 2013!

The Box Art sux!

[Neckbear]

And dude, about goddamn time.

[Mocat]

Meanwhile at steam

...boxarts?

[Lord_Sloth]

Did you not play Dead Island 1 at launch? The game itself was rubish! Not bad after....several patches though.

[-MD-]

Other than the save issues it was fine at launch. On PC anyways.

[Dread]

I do not c what the problem is.

In fact, I htink is cool. Simple and to the point.

[aquamala]

I could care less about the boxart in my games

[NonApplicable]

I agree with the article(if you can even call it that). The box art looks like an amateur anime comic crop. I have created better artwork than this and I'm not even artist.

[crackforgangstas]

I could care less about the box art as long as the game itself delivers. I don't pay for box art, I pay for the experience...

[r40k213]

People are just becoming impossible to please lately with box-arts. Bioshock goes for a realistic look, gets slammed. Dead Island goes for the hand-drawn artsy look, gets slammed. I propose we just make all box arts plain black with the game logo centered.

[Zha1tan]

wait wait, hold the phone....people still buy games in boxes? what is this?

2005?

[MorbidPorpoise]

Not too bad has nothing on the Steelbook case though :P

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[WeAreLegion]

Looks good. Haha. What a terrible story.

[MasterD919]

Why stop at Box Art? How about that damn UPC Code? Six zeroes and a one? What is this 1999?