So while this might be one of the last years of video games having actual box art (or for that matter, actual boxes) it wasn't exactly a slouch of a year from an artistic perspective. To truly get a picture of how successful a video game box cover is at properly conveying what a game promises to deliver, try and imagine the following covers stripped of all logos and labels and see them for just their individual art. Here are the twelve best video game box arts of 2012. So what were your favorite video game box arts of 2012? Like our list? Hate it? What did we miss? Let us know in the comments.
Brian Altano is IGN's Executive Editor of News & Features. He's been getting duped by awesome video game box art ever since Deadly Towers for NES. Man, that game was hot garbage. Be sure to follow him on Twitter at @agentbizzle.