Awesome games with awful boxarts.

[Jon-Erich]

LemonSlice said:

episteme said:

I always think of this one when it comes to awful cover arts:

 

I think this could just be the worst cover art ever made. I don't think I've ever seen anything worse, what a colossal fuckup.

I remember seeing this in a Target once and that night I was bitching and ranting about it of Facebook. I know it sounds weird but I have a background in art and design so I do things like this often. Not only is this simply awful. They got everything about it completely wrong.

- Critic quotes should be on the back of the box, not the front.

- The game's title was shrunken down in order to fit the other quotes.

- Too many logos on the front. Rocksteady and DC Comics could have easily been located on the back.

- Image of Batman is too large. You can't tell what the hell he's doing.

- At least three different font sizes are used in the quote "5 out of 5 One of the greatest games ever made. Period." (not counting the G4 TV part which is correct for a quotation). This was most likely done to avoid covering Batman's head.

- The Batman Arkham logo floats in the background with no rhyme or reason.

- "Game of the Year" banner shouldn't be the same size as the PS3 banner. It should be smaller.

- The tearing in the background makes no sense. It was made only because the art felt intent on using white text to distinguish from the rest of the red text that shouldn't be on the front covr anyway.

What's ironic about all this is that this boxart represents a comic book character. They could have easily gotten someone from DC to draw good original Batman art.