The Best and Worst of Video Game Box Art

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drbunnig said:

SanAndreasX said:

This was a rather notorious one. Not only did it have the huge ratings blurb on the front cover, but this was scanned directly from IGN and has the IGN watermark on it. It caused so much uproar that Capcom let players send their watermarked covers in for a replacement.

They made a balls up with the watermark etc, but the actual art itself is really good.

Sadly, the cover art fiasco was kind of an omen for Capcom's eventual decline and the decisions they made that got them a lot of bad press. They really struggled during most of 7th gen. At the same time GTA V was releasing, the gaming media was putting out headlines saying that Capcom was basically broke. Their turnaround in the subsequent years was nothing short of breathtaking.