Which game has the best box art?

[toomanymikes]

Darkseed had a fantastic box / art design too. I love it when time and effort goes into presentation.

[Sharingan]

I really like most of the boxart from Bob Wakelin. He drew the covers for stuff like Ivanhoe, Epic and Space Gun, among other things. It isn't often you'll find hand-painted box art anymore - most of it nowadays is CG.

[v85rawdeal]

From what I remember, the Cinemaware games always had quite stylish, retro-cinema covers for their games, which fitted the games perfectly.

The problem with a lot of the psygnosis artwork was that it didn't always convey the game to me quite so well.

Another great artist is Royo, the artist who did most of the Dynamic games (Army Moves, Game Over, Game Over 2) mind you, they did have to spend a lot of time censoring the original artworks.

[Sharingan]

Dude, Royo is an awesome artist. I have some of his art books, and the guy's a genius. Didn't know he worked on anything game-related, though.

[v85rawdeal]

This is his cover art for Navy Moves




And this is the 'censored' art for Game Over



Will dig out others asap

[Sharingan]

Yeah, that looks like the same style alright. Entering 'Luis Royo gallery' in Google should net you some pictures of his other works.

[v85rawdeal]

I have trading collections of his, so I will go through them and scan the game-cover images for you to see some of the uncensored versions