Videogame box art, sometimes better than the game itself & could be misleadi

The other day while visiting my local Gamestop store, I saw the box for Cabela's Dangerous Hunts 2011. While standing in line for a bit, and staring at this game for some time, I came to a conclusion.

The box art for this game makes me think that wild and furious animals are attacking poor defenseless people, who in turn are fighting to survive by hiding in trees and blowing their brains out. I know, from what I've been taught as a kid, you should never judge a book by it's cover. This game however, seems to want to be judged incorrectly, just based on it's cover. If you were to replace the bear on the cover with a zombie or some other kind of monstrosity, I think it could easily be the box art for a Resident Evil game.

This game is all about hunting, which we all know, no big secret. Now, I could give you all my personal reasons as to why I disagree with hunting, but this is not the place nor would anyone really care. With that said, I'm not saying what I am because of my own beliefs; this is just an observation that I found funny. I'm also not commenting on the game itself, only the cover art, so please don't take this as a negative review for the game.

I know this is not the only game to mislead and/or send an inaccurate interpretation as to what the game is about. I grew up in the eighties during Nintendo's heyday and I can honestly tell you I've been mislead and burned a lot based on cover art. I know, like I stated above, you should never buy a game based on the cover art alone, but I'm sure I'm not the only one who has.

One of the biggest culprits for me was a NES game called Deadly Towers. I fell for this one big time, I saved up my allowances to buy this game, only because I thought the cover looked really cool. After getting home and playing it for about fifteen minutes I realized I was had. I must also admit that it goes both ways, because I had the same experience when the Legend of Zelda first came out and I was completely blown away. Thank God the world wide web came along and now you can actually research games before breaking the bank.

So I was just wondering, what games have stole your hard earned money based on box art alone, considering that the art probably cost more to produce than the game itself?

Michael

Neat box art, dreadful game.

Well I didn't actually buy this game, but Dante's Inferno nearly got me. Also I do agree with you about how cover art can be vastly misleading, but after all it is just doing a job and that is to get people to buy the game.

Confirmed: I am the only gamer here that likes Deadly Towers. A grueling test of patience and skill that no one else seems to want to accept. It was the Demon's Souls of '87.

On topic:

Rebought it to complete my FROM collection, but this was not a winner. Great cover though.

Intentionally misleading box art has sold more copies of videogames over the years than every form of advertising combined.

You can't tell by the pic, but the boxart is holographic and it does look pretty awesome. Sadly a horrible, HORRIBLE game. Also one of the lowest rated games here on GS.