The ICO & Shadow of the Colossus Collection, due later this month for the PS3, still has one of those jumbled, text-filled and logo-filled covers. But it’s what’s on the inside of this HD remastering of ICO and Shadow of the Colossus that counts. On the flip side of the game’s cover art lies the beautiful and minimal artwork you see above, a tasteful trend that’s making Sony-published PS3 games easier on the eyes.
ICO & Shadow of the Colossus Collection hits North American PS3s on September 27, packing in HD visuals, stereoscopic 3D support and 7.1 surround sound.
ICO & Shadow of the Colossus Collection Hit Soon, See Final Box Art [PlayStation.blog]
Meowgravy
Friday, September 9, 2011 at 7:39 AMVery nice indeed!
Aliasalpha
Friday, September 9, 2011 at 8:33 AMBah, they should have this as the main cover and the reverse should feature the original abysmal artwork, ideally with the word “sorry” somewhere on it
lambomann007
Friday, September 9, 2011 at 9:15 AMIt works better this way, because the rating stickers and other rot will be on the garbage side, keeping the inside nice and clean.
Morkai
Friday, September 9, 2011 at 12:03 PMuntil EB/Game/JB etc plaster “NEW RELEASE”, “TRADE NOW GET IT FREE” etc stickers all over the plastic sleeve.
Turd burglar
Friday, September 9, 2011 at 12:30 PMOr even worse, all over the cardboard, like they did for the original release!
bap
Friday, September 9, 2011 at 10:13 PMi run the games department at one of these stores and i take alot of care to preserve the condition of my games! but yeah there is alot of abuse out there. whenever i get stock transfered in from other stores i often have to “bring them back to life” clean, re-case etc. and anything i put on cardboad i make fucking sure it’s gonna come off! i could go on, but i wont.
Braaains
Friday, September 9, 2011 at 8:59 AMNice. Very nice.
Velnica
Friday, September 9, 2011 at 9:19 AMSo all I need is just to take out the sleeve and reverse it? Bingo Sony!
[doa]
Friday, September 9, 2011 at 1:12 PMConsidering similar was done with the Wii version of Pikmin, it’s odd we don’t see it happen more often.
JTJ
Friday, September 9, 2011 at 10:09 AMWe got the proper artwork in Aus.
The Insufferable Steengo Vasquez
Friday, September 9, 2011 at 11:32 AMHope we get it too.
Dan
Friday, September 9, 2011 at 12:39 PMThe only box art i ever saw for ICO was the one on the right. I wonder if the US box art was really that bad?
Dan
Friday, September 9, 2011 at 12:42 PMI looked it up, oh wow that is bad.
Why do publishers have so many amazing exaples of artwork for game covers, and then they go and choose the worst possible one?
Marvel Vs Capcom 3.
There. I said it.
Gizmaluke
Friday, September 9, 2011 at 12:52 PMSame here. I got the limited editions of both games when they came out and they have the same artwork. Had to google it but the NA version was truly bad.
Otacon
Friday, September 9, 2011 at 6:46 PMThere are only 4 releases that I am truly looking forward to, this is one of them. The others are The Last Guardian, MGS collection and MGS Rising.
Pakka
Saturday, September 10, 2011 at 2:39 PMI’m all for having great box art but…
I’d be more concerned for the spine art of these games.. cause ya know, that’s what actually shows on a dvd case.