Video Game Art

Today’s video games are great. There’s no two ways about it, old games were good (a few were the best ever apparently;P), but lets be honest, half the time they were utter garbage that had no redeeming features what so ever. Today it’s different. A garbage game is hard to spot under all its fancy graphics and slick presentation (DOAX 2, I’m looking at you!).

Covers are often boring, pre-rendered and devoid of any personality (this of course is a huge generalisation, but it’s my blog so I can do that). Ahh, how I long for the days of the Atari 2600 where the covers were often the best thing. How the tears stung my cheeks when games never lived upto the promise these mini Da Vinci’s promised. Mighty God King have a great parody (that is barely a parody at all) of these awesome covers of ye olde times! Here’s my fave…