I think it should change. I'm fine with the over abundance of green, but they should add the thumb and remove one of the fingers. It just looks weird without a thumb.

Atheist Jew

@LittleBigPlaneteer: Agreed, too much green. And it reminds me of the Dead Space box. Who had the hand-and-forearm-separated-from-body idea first? Find out in the collector's edition of either, for $40 more. And if you buy both collector's editions, you'll get the whole answer! Nice one EA!

e-friend

Stay tuned... someone with photoshop MIGHT click 'flip horizontally'.

Insomnia Bob

I'm literally shocked that people didn't see the "left" gag after being told to focus on it.
I mean, I didn't get it when I first saw the box art, but then I was too busy focusing on the 4 part.
As soon as somebody mentioned left, I saw the left-hand, right-hand thing.

Ad-hominem

Maybe it's a left hand in a mirror? I hope they go with as many puns as possible. It's nice to see games that don't take themslves too seriously.

PlayerOne

@muu:

I'm going to be an ambidextrous consumer and buy both!

LittleBigPlaneteer

It's the Pokemon sales approach, silly.

Left 4 Dead (Left hand edition)
Left 4 Dead (Right hand edition)

certain maps are only available on one version, and require COOP play to be enjoyed.

muu

Really?? Wow... that's sad

LongDarkBlues

they should just use the image were the 4 people are standing with guns and the left 4 dead sign is under them. this box art is ugly as hell

ZetaCrossfire

@Covah: @serotoninzero:

Wow. All I gotta say folks.

Terance!

Someone took the "Going Green" phase literally...

Mucudadada

@serotoninzero: Oh. Nevermind. Haha.

serotoninzero

They better change the cover because this one isn't gonna sell any games based off the box art alone.

OGHowie

Yeah. Lost too. Only thing I could come up with is most people count with the left hand. ... But that can't be it?

serotoninzero

@gadjet:

This is the first time I'm seeing it and I think it's clever, but I also think it has too much of a green tone to it. I'd like it better if the background was black or something with the hand on it.

LittleBigPlaneteer

@Covah:

-->LEFT<-- 4 DEAD

I like how the guy is saying "stay tuned" though like the box cover is something to create mystery and suspense over. I'm at the edge of my seat Valve, will it truly have a left hand? Will it?!!

LittleBigPlaneteer

am I the only one who thought this cover was incredibly ugly? I get the joke, but god it's fugly.

gadjet

@Covah: Left hand with 4 fingers on a corpse - Left(hand) 4(fingers) dead (person)

CaptainAhab

@Covah: LEFT 4 dead ;)

Hdfisise

I don't get the deal with the right hand, am I missing something?

Plus, the similarities between this art and the dead space art is waaaay to similar.

Covah

@muu:
Gotta Kill 'em All!

Channing

Ohh speaking of cover secrets... the blood splatter on the xbox cover is slightly bigger...Ergo that means that the game is bigger on the xbox version right?....right!?!!? -_- pssshh lol

stupidjason

I shudder at the thought of the sequel's box art.

SonOfAsgard

Doug: Hey art department, take that hand and flip it, but fer gawd's sake make sure you don't flip the logo.

Gofthick

WOW I'm dumb, hahaha

Covah

@Xtreme_Hindu_Cow: [www.psu.com]

It's a possibility... Though it definitely will not be out anytime this year for the PS3.

B33

If they delay the game over this....

Hahaha.

WEGGLES90

yeah it's gonna say PS3 on it. OOOO snap!

Xtreme_Hindu_Cow

@ZetaCrossfire: And zombies are ugly, too! See how that works out?

Spiffyness

@gadjet: I also found it quite ugly too.

In my opinion just changing the overall colour on the box would help, maybe change how bright the green is on the background and hand.

Emiat

I think they're jealous of the House of the Dead: Overkill box art and will overhaul theirs! At least, I hope so...

Agnates

they've got only to flip horizontally the hand image. no big deal

AlejandroLestad

Silly question, has Valve mentioned how much this is going to cost?

Dave Silva

Right 4 Dead confirmed!?

alb1221

Does not matter for me since I am going to download the game off of Steam anyway. Wish they had like the cover art pop-up on the side when you selected the game, like when you select a song in iTunes.

Tehman

Am I the only one that wants to turn that into The Shocker?

Strahd414

I hope it does, there have been a way to may hands on the covers :
[img413.imageshack.us]

neojam

It got a boo boo. Where is uncle fester?

leeallens

No silly...
Left 5 deader.

It's pure, undeniable, alpha-numerical superiority.
Just what we hope for in a sequel.

Zombienator

yah the colors are bad. doesnt look like a color that would be in the game hehe. Unless they want it to stand out, :P

Omniel

@Insomnia Bob:
Bwahah. No wai?
@Terance!:
Took the words out of my mouth dude.

Wow.

Terrorsaur.

@Strahd414: If two don't rock her...

Sparky13

@Covah: It's okay. It took me a week to figure when Blink 182 released Take off Your Pants and Jacket that there was a 'joke' in the title. As my friends would say, "Dude, I don't know about you sometimes..." Heh.

Sparky13

I really liked this cover

Bernoulli

Wow...
That last paragraph was poorly written!

marcus1060

Maybe the cover is advocating Zombie RIGHTs!

fatheadwilson

why are people reading into the cover so much? I'd rather have a good looking game cover than one that tries to get too clever and looks ugly. I know.. perhaps it comes bundled with Mirrors Edge in a pack called the Green box. since it is a reflection of a left hand which has had its thumb cut off from an edge of a mirror. seriously guys don't read too much into it its just a cover.

Cue2

Link will be playable character.

Ping5000

@LittleBigPlaneteer:

"I'm at the edge of my seat Valve, will it truly have a left hand? Will it?!!"

Holy shit dude my stomach hurts from laughing so hard.

That Boy Baked

I just hope Capcom is taking note. I expect to see a lot of creativity in the new Dead Raisins cover...mmm zombie raisins...I can't wait. :P

Armans

I think we all know what the right hand is for, and what they're saying about it.

Do I have to cough it out for you?

Xander

it'd be a waste of resources flipping the hand for the sake of a visual gag. much simplar to change the title to 'Right 4 Dead'

Messypandas

It'd be a waste of time flipping the hand for the sake of a visual gag. just change the name to 'right 4 dead'

Messypandas

I agree that this boxart is fugly.
maybe its the color. i dunno lol

underbaker

I thought it was one of the best covers I've ever scene, and I remember the times when I almost had a seziure seeing the Super Mario 2 cover.

Pornosaur

Hmmm community seems to be 50/50 split on this. In it's current form I think it's aweseome, a great miniumalist approach.

Pornosaur

@Pornosaur: I like it too, but seeing a left hand on there would be cool. Or a nice little diagram...

⇐ ➍ ☠

Sweet.

The Magnificen7

In their defense, the thumb would have been on OUR left, and is in fact dead...

AllOfUsAreLost

@flight240: Photochop eh? Is that in Beta?

The Magnificen7

lol...

i glanced over the image and immediately thought, "someone NEEDS to photochop in the WESTSIDE hand sign."

unfortunately, my photochop skills are subpar.

flight240

Nooooo!!!! NOT the RIGHT THUMB??!!!

splin

@OGHowie:
Erm, no? That's a terrible reason to change cover art.

sugardeath

@lumpi: Ah ha! I've never seen someone defend their grammatical mistakes in the same post! You couldn't just fix them? Funny shit, but I do sort of agree with you.

The Magnificen7

To be perfectly honest, the boxart gave me a pun-overload, almost too much for me: 4, dead, left, left-hand, "for", night of the living dead, undead, left below, four people...

Basically, I find it a grammatical crime to replace "for" by a "4", no matter how well it fits. And they're CELEBRATING exactly that with the box-art. And no, my own grammar mistakes don't make this a less relevant complain.

lumpi

@neojam: I hope it does, there have been a way to may hands on the covers :

You surely meant to say that is has gotten out of hand, right? Right?

FranUnFine

When they port it to the PS3, as always, the left won't know what the right is doing, the cyclical flame wars and comparisons will occur.

Caduceus

1. Open the PSD of the box art.

2. Select the layer with the hand.

3. Flip.

4. Ctrl-S

There, double pun'd in less than 2 minutes.

Koztah

If I didn't know anything about the game, this cover would be unlikely to make me pick it up and look at it. But of course, I'm buying it on Steam and will never have a box...

amygdala

Two hands.. Two fingers..

KEELr

Just release the game already =(

outsida

I hear a lot of anger about this box art, but I think its funny. It has a sort of 80's D-zombie movie feel to it that makes you want to watch it because you can.

TimLyons

@Koztah: You mean like this? [i34.tinypic.com]

Also, OH NOOOOO: [www.left4dead411.com]
Left 4 Dead has been delayed from Nov. 4 to Nov. 20! Agh!!!

BenKenobi88

Did we forget the Orange Box boxart?
[www.productwiki.com]
It's like they grabbed the first slide from their PowerPoint presentation and slapped that on all the boxes. But who cares, the Orange Box is awesome.

And Left 4 Dead will be awesome regardless of its boxart. For the record, I like it...it's kinda cheesy horror movie style. If it had a black background, nobody would see it on the shelves among the infinite minimalistic black-background boxes out there.

BenKenobi88

Well, it's a right hand because the Left 4 are dead! :)

:( :( :(

(I=Cornball)

YotaruVegeta

The box art isn't half-bad, just need another color (that green is horrific)!

NYKnicker

"As Valve is wont to do, Lombardi didn't elaborate, but it sounds like the finalized written earlier is more of a "finalized." I didn't understand a word of this. Wut? Anyway, i really like the boxart. It's fantastic.

HalenTalos

<3 VALVE!
I WANT TO WORK FOR YOU PLEASE!

[alexmandra.blogspot.com]

Nameerf

@marcus1060: I agree..it's 11.30 am here and all that did was give me a massive headache!.

Crutchley29

Love the Saw style box art, L4D is going to kick so much ass.

StabMasterArson

@OGHowie: Good, I don't really want to be playing a team game with some guy who selects his video game purchases on the merits of their cover art.

Poo_and_Weeeee

The Dead Space box art gave me a deja vu from Starcraft's cut scene.

This on the other hand... I wonder if it's the last cry of a right-handed designer that got left behind.

foreigner