Sony Avoids 'Net Rage, Makes Right Call on Team Ico Box Art

The box art for the ICO & Shadow of the Colossus Collection is full of enough logos to choke a few colossi, but Sony seems to know this. When you open the box up, there's some additional, much prettier artwork inside.

ICO & Shadow of the Colossus Collection arrives on September 27. The Last Guardian will not be present at Tokyo Game Show this year, but footage of Team Ico's latest is supposed to be in the collection.

Oh, and remember this?

Thank you christ. The american ico art sucks

Effing yes!

This pleases me.

The inner Resistance 3 artwork is nice too...minimalistic version of the regular cover art...I switched it the second I opened te case and saw it.

Nooooiiiice

You mean "Sony Avoids Nerd Rage"

But whatevs. Same diff, right?

This is one of the things that might actually make me buy a PS3 at long last.

I was one of those people who scanned and printed off the original, non-awful Ico box art for my copy.

First Resistance 3, now this. Holy shit Sony, if you put these awesome reverse covers on every game I will love you forever. I hope Uncharted 3's is something awesome, same for Twisted Metal.

Somebody has probably already said it by now, but this kind of thing should be standard practice. You can have your logos and promotional material as long as you have a reverse cover with superior box art.

AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!

uh... who is that on the american cover?

forgot it was that bad.

So glad I'm getting this :)

So we're back to pictures counting as articles now?

okay, i'll buy it now

Oh fuck yes!

Grrr... I'm gonna bash you with this stick.

So we're back to pictures counting as articles now?

Dear god that last cover art is awful...

Grrr... I'm gonna bash you with this stick.

I still have the postcard style art pieces that came with SOTC back in the day, would have been sweet to have something like that.

@Pr1mus said:

@MrKlorox said:

So we're back to pictures counting as articles now?

So we're back to useless comment now?

Judging from the one you just submitted, absofuckinglutely.

@MrKlorox said:

@Pr1mus said:

@MrKlorox said:

So we're back to pictures counting as articles now?

So we're back to useless comment now?

Judging from the one you just submitted, absofuckinglutely.

Masterstroke right there.

Can't wait to pick this up!

Put down the pitchforks and torches?

@Pr1mus said:

@MrKlorox said:

So we're back to pictures counting as articles now?

So we're back to useless comment now?

Judging from the one you just submitted, absofuckinglutely.

This is awesome news.

@Pr1mus said:

@MrKlorox said:

@Pr1mus said:

@MrKlorox said:

So we're back to pictures counting as articles now?

So we're back to useless comment now?

Judging from the one you just submitted, absofuckinglutely.

It's funny because i see here an article with 5.. no not 5, 4 and half line of text and still give 4 informations about the game and team ico. That's pretty impressive really.

Sorry I was ignoring journalistic gems like

Oh, and remember this?

and captions under pictures such as

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

But you're right. Considering those masterpieces, there are 4 lines of text. I guess this really is an article now.

That old US Ico box art is so bad. I remember hearing about it multiple times and finally googling it one time... What a shock that was.

Inside the box you get the box

The UK copy of ICO I got at the time of release had the same (good) art work as the Japanese version, so don't know why America had a different cover.

Hey! It's my old friend Farty Face!

i would like reverse covers free of logos on more games, thank you very much

I still have my PS2 copy of ICO and I must be the only person on the planet that likes the US boxart. It's great. The kid looks like he's about to wreck somebody with that stick. 

@Pr1mus: Being concise is fine. It's when there's a 6-to-1 ratio of picture to text area that it starts to look like all fluff and no content.

@MrKlorox: Actually, the cover for Ico is fucking legendary for how awful it is in the states. I remember being in awe of the original and was impressed that they actually did something so... artsy. And when I saw the US cover, all I could think was: Damn, that's to bad. So yeah, this warrants a news post. Patrick isn't posting everything from /r/gaming from Reddit like some other website about video games.

@Brackynews: Fuck, I forgot that cover. Is that a US cover?

Well that's the first thing I'm doing when I get it.

@MrKlorox: News is news, fucktard.

I'll pick this up, Shadow of the Colossus was already a great looking game but at 1080p and running at 60fps the game will look phenomenal.

@Dallas_Raines: Tell that to Brad Nicholson, kind intelligent gentleman.

Sony, I thank thou from the bottom of my heart. :)

But now I'm angry because they changed the Shadow of the Colossus box art to the PAL version! The US bos art is better. GRRRRR!! 

The original Ico box art depicts a Vikings' fan in front of a mini golf!

objective journalist 
Meanwhile, if this were a Nintendo article I guess there'd be a tangent about "no new games, just rehashing collections. Can't live off nostalgia forever and many many people agree with me I'm just reporting on the normal folks no spin zone". 

II really don't see why consumers would be annoyed by company logos, we just stack our games on a shelf and the only time we look at the box art is when we to play a game. 
 
If they start putting massive company logos mid-centre then I would be slightly annoyed but until this I never even thought about company logos on my game boxes. 
 
The most interesting this in this article was the fact I just found out that The Last Guardian wont be at TGS, I assume this has been reported on before but I missed it, I assumed it would be there this year thinking it's got to be released hopefully early next year, but it not being a TGS is clear that games is not coming untill fall of next year at the earliest, very disappointing, Although I am all for developers taking as long as they need to get the game right after this long my excitement is falling but I am sure that will come back once the game surfaces again.

@FluxWaveZ:

No, but I don't see the need for a dozen paragraphs about a collection coming with a bonus cover.