Saving Private Ryan has the best War movie cover imo

http://st-listas.20minutos.es/images/2011-01/268422/2811580_640px.jpg?1294299365

I've always liked the Diablo II cover art. Mostly for it's moodiness. It also is really eye catching off of a self (which is how games worked back in the day. haha). Though I think I also remember being caught by the box art for Icewind Dale in a store, though I never actually bought it (I now own it on GOG, haven't played it yet though).

And I like Arcanum's cover art for the feel it gives of the world. It is a bit busy by my artistic standards, but I really like that it has a mage, a dwarf technologist, a steam engine, a blimp, and a crazy castle thing. Plus the huge elf-lady's head, which is the weird. All within the gear-circle thing, which I love.

Wizball

;-p

Yes, I know I love the game, and will say so at every opportunity, but I really do think the cover art is extremely cool.

Good grief, a whole megabit!?

Bwahahaha...
http://pics.mobygames.com/images/covers/large/977977175-00.jpg
plus
http://www.mobygames.com/images/shots/l/216254-robinson-s-requiem-dos-screenshot-you-are-killed-by-a-hostile.png

For me, the best box art is the coolest cover art.

I like the cover of the Skyrim collector's edition. Captures the mood of the game and hints at what makes it great, namely exploration. Consider the mysterious ruins to the right of the Skyrim logo, perceiving them in the imposing landscape of the cover mirrors finding them in the vast gameworld itself. I also like to think that it's intentional that the rock and mist just beneath the middle of the picture evokes a ghostly, angelic figure, and suggests the strangeness and mystery lurking beneath the surface of the game.

To me the best covers where found in the c64 days. For example the infamous Game Over cover, it did not have anything to do with the game at all....

NSFW! (ish)


http://www.mmo-vault.net/rift/media/image/rift-storm-legion-box-art

I'm shallow. Sue me.

Nah, it's fine. Nothing wrong with liking scarily armoured dudes.

Damn you, deadfolk, for removing the other link and making my "funny" joke unintelligible.

Cannon Fodder:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/5e/Cannon_fodder_box_art.jpg

Cannon Fodder 2:
http://pics.mobygames.com/images/covers/large/1175972538-00.jpg

Reminds me of the best times of movie posters - simple yet original and memorable. But frankly every cover that is not a generic character illustration and not a leathery book gets plus points from me. It's sad that only music album covers are still a very interesting field whereas game and movie covers are generally just crap, nowadays. Also I don't recall having ever seen a single book cover that would instantly catch my attention or remain in my memory for a long time.

Btw, as one of the original creators of Gothic put it when he talked about game covers: "Oooh, a book, that's so original. When you enter a store and see a big brown mess - that's where the role playing games are."