As of late, SCEA's boxart division is showing themselves to be completely incompetent. I have complied a list of some recent disaster that showcase this terrible truth.

First up

The fail present here is astounding. Some chick with a wet T-shirt, a couple of dudes just...looking (probably for boobs) and a bad photoshopped cop that looks more out of place than me in the girl's locker room. For a game that'll probably have a difficult time selling, bad boxart is an unnecessary knock. The cover should be captivation and interesting, something that'll pull people in. What box art shouldn't be, is this.

Next up

I'm gonna come out and say I loved Infamous. It's in my top 10 ps3 games for god sakes!!! But the boxart... OMG FAIL!!! Going from the top down, it seems good. Very cool logo, awesome name for a game... and then... blah. Some dude standing with what looks like a powdered donut in his hands. Not very interesting to say the least.

This game deserved better

(sigh)

Need I say more?

If the game is epic but the boxart is fail, does that make the situation an epic fail?

You're looking at it folks, SCEA's worst disaster EVA!!! Yeah, we understand Kratos is angry and, yes we know he has an eye. What's the point? Where is the EPICNESS!?!?! Truth be told, I do kinda like this boxart. But I'd take something epic over this any day. Plus, alot of people just straight up hate the art. If I was in a store and knew nothing about God of War, I'd probably pass this one by. That's sad...

Whose honestly running the show at SCEA? A competent human or Magilla Gorilla?

So what do you think guys, have any others?

I agree. Lately SCEE has had upper hand when it comes to boxarts. Hopefully we will also get different GOW III boxart !

I dont mind any of them, i dont prefer Ratchet or God of war since i think theyre too close and dont really tell you about the game at first glance.

However, Heavy Rain is very cinematic and i love it, along with infamous, infamous is badass imo.

I don't see anything wrong with any of those boxarts...I think the JP Heavy Rain boxart is best but I doubt the NA boxart will turnoff people from buying the game

Yeah, that inFamous case isn't only the US one, we've got it here in UK/EU too, and I don't see a problem with it, at all, except maybe ingame the lightning is either red or blue, and there it's white, but otherwise, it's completely fine.

Maybe not...

I quite like it

heavy rain cover is hideous!

The other ones are cool! Infamous i kinda don't like as much, but that's only because I hate electrical special effects - they always look cheap to me!

Good box art is hard to find. People have too high expectations for such a meaningless aspect of the game.

Plus those are not that bad. Fans make crazy box art and then are dissapointed when official boxart isn't as good...fan made box art is always better than official.

compared to

I like the Heavy Rain, inFAMOUS, and Ratchet and Clank: ACiT cover. I completely agree with the God of War 3 cover being complete garbage though.

Sony has been screwing up US boxarts for a long time. Look at ICO's US cover and compare it to the Euro one.