Valve Unveils Portal 2 Box Art
- Thread starter Andy Chalk
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Valve has always produced box art in a strictly logical sense.
Left 4 Dead in particular - they're simply going, "it's a zombie's hand (dead), he's holding up four (4) fingers, and it's his left hand. Left, 4, Dead."
Same thing's happening here - it simply portrays the facts. There are portals (portal). There are two (2) of them. There are also two (2) robots. Portal, 2. It's not artwork, it's just a visual representation of the information inherent in the title (and subsequently, the game).
It's like you said - functional. I wouldn't go so far as to call it "ugly," it's very well rendered and compare it to other Valve box-arts (especially Half-Life 2 and the Orange Box), it is well-staged and such.
Left 4 Dead in particular - they're simply going, "it's a zombie's hand (dead), he's holding up four (4) fingers, and it's his left hand. Left, 4, Dead."
Same thing's happening here - it simply portrays the facts. There are portals (portal). There are two (2) of them. There are also two (2) robots. Portal, 2. It's not artwork, it's just a visual representation of the information inherent in the title (and subsequently, the game).
It's like you said - functional. I wouldn't go so far as to call it "ugly," it's very well rendered and compare it to other Valve box-arts (especially Half-Life 2 and the Orange Box), it is well-staged and such.
Valve never was big on box art... "The Orange Box" did make it onto Lisa Foiles' Top Five Worst Boxarts after all. This is quite the improvement.
The boxart doesn't matter because people are going to buy it any way because, well, it's PORTAL! 2!
mindlesspuppet said:ME2's cover image is in the spirit of movie posters for old scifi movies/covers for pulp scifi writing (which largely inspired the aesthetic of the game). If people don't recognize that though I can see why they wouldn't care for it.DTWolfwood said:probably would have been better of just using a black and blue background with the stick figure dude next to the 2 in the middle.
I got the same reaction from this cover as i did when i saw this
I honestly never noticed that, but after doing some research.. You're right. And it makes farrrr more sense now! Thanks.