It's been announced that Bioshock Infinite will have a reversible cover! Ken Levine has uploaded 6 designs on Irrational's site we can all vote on right now and if that's not enough, Ken is going to upload even more covers later we can print out ourselves.

Design #1

Design #2

Design #3

Design #4

Design #5

Design #6

Poll closes on December 19th, so get on it duders! http://irrationalgames.com/insider/poll/

I voted on number 4 myself, because goddamn it if that does not look rad.

I am loving some #4 and #6. Whats the site to vote?

I'm liking design 4.

Fuck man Elizabeth is the most strikingly beautiful female character I've seen in some time. I vote #5 I want her on my cover.

@Ulain: It's at the end of my post.

First one is the best, easily. And I'm not even saying that because of the very visible cleavage.

EDIT: The fourth one hadn't loaded for me until I refreshed. Yeah, that's the best one.

Greatt now the whiners can stop bitching about a video game cover. I'd go with #4 out of those. They all look pretty sweet though.

Remove Elizabeth and I'd vote for #3.

Yay!

I voted for design 4. Looks rad!

Is robot bird guy throwing up the devil horns in design 4? ROCK!

(I know it's not, but still.)

Y'all are crazy, 2 is where it's at, especially since its box art. I agree that 4 and 6 are cool too but man, 2 tells me everything I need to know and also to play that fucking video game.

I wonder how many votes 3 will get given that it's the same ass shit.

Definitely number 4. Love the color and look.

This is no contest. Number 4

I like #2 the best but more as a poster design rather than something that I'd put as a video game cover. For that I would have to agree on #4, reminds me like a cover for a novel which is a nice contrast compared the reversed side of it.

4 is so delicious.

I didn't care for #3 or #5 because they look pretty standard for action games. I voted for #4; it's awesome looking, and stands out.

#4 is dope. The orange is really striking.

4,5,6 are awesome, but I think 4 may be my favorite.

Wait, I'm just going to buy this through the internet anyway, so either way I can make the box in my Steam list whatever picture I want.

@uniform said:

Remove Elizabeth and I'd vote for #3.

Isn't that basically the actual regular cover if you remove her?

It's good to see everyone here's taste align's with mine, I'm liking me some #4. 6 is pretty sweet too.

4 is great.

@BaconGames said:

Y'all are crazy, 2 is where it's at, especially since its box art. I agree that 4 and 6 are cool too but man, 2 tells me everything I need to know and also to play that fucking video game.

I wonder how many votes 3 will get given that it's the same ass shit.

I'm with you on that, 2 is awesome.

Really? Everyone loves 4? I do not like that at all.

@Cloudenvy said:

Design #3

Design #5

Aren't these pretty much the same cover?

Four is amazing. Six is no slouch either.

@Video_Game_King: Yes, and they look way too similar to the original cover in my opinion.

@Video_Game_King said:

@Cloudenvy said:

Design #3

Design #5

Aren't these pretty much the same cover?

5 is better because of additional lens flares.

@Bucketdeth:

I thought #3 was the original cover.

I think they all look terrible... I voted for 5 because thats the one I ended up randomly clicking on.

Also I think 4 is one of the worst ones on there.

3 is better because less flag burning, more giant blimp..Flying through the sky so fancy free.

Number 3 is great even if it's half the original cover, 2 looks fancy as well but I don't know if I would go out of my way to print one so is great one of these is will be reversible

@Video_Game_King said:

@Bucketdeth:

I thought #3 was the original cover.

Basically is, BUT WITH ADDED FEMALE.

4 is amazing, it directly reflects the style of novel illustrations and political cartoons of that era. Its also damn awesome looking, seems to be winning on the current poll too.

I don't understand why people care about box art. The spine is the only thing you actually really see in a collection.

This stuff is nice, but I will not be reversing the cover, actually wait, I won't even have one because I'll buy it on PC.

@Demoskinos: #5 is actually a real chick. They paid her just like what Grasshopper/Warner did with Jessica Nigri with Lollipop Chainsaw. Proof. She's prettyfuckinggorgeous. nwbchbkewubvc nwad290her43894jwdm

That 'thing' in 6? What is that? Is that the new Big Daddy?

4 is the best, and 6 isn't too bad either.

@Sooty said:

I don't understand why people care about box art.

People like having nice looking things regardless of how meaningless it may be.

4 then 2 then 6

@Gizmo: Basically! I believe it's called Songbird.

It's all about 6.

4 is the best one by far if that doesn't win, I vote for 6. The rest range from mediocre to terrible.

The last time I was promised reversible cover art I got blank white as the other side. Now I'm stuck with that shit ICO/SotC collection cover art.

I must admit I'm surprised at so many people liking number 4.

As a piece of concept art, yes the image of Songbird perched overlooking the city I believe is great as a starting point for something that was going to be worked into a proper bit of imagery. But as a finished piece of artwork, it doesn't appeal to me much.

Different things appeal to different people though, and that's cool too.

4 reminds me of the Resistance 3 cover.

4 or 6

Are game covers really that important to gamers? I am curious because I see people who get upset over covers.

@MoleyUK said:

I must admit I'm surprised at so many people liking number 4.

As a piece of concept art, yes the image of Songbird perched overlooking the city I believe is great as a starting point for something that was going to be worked into a proper bit of imagery. But as a finished piece of artwork, it doesn't appeal to me much.

Different things appeal to different people though, and that's cool too.

You're exactly right. I think people are going "look how different it looks, it must be great" when the image is actually kind of a mess in terms of composition. Most of these are. People are making the Brad Mistake, which is going "this must have artistic value beyond the normal because it looks different". The only one that actually works with the font treatment is the third one (which is essentially the basic cover). Some of them just look slapdash and lazy (1 looks like they just cropped out a Liz picture and put it on a gradient) and others just ... they don't work from a compositional, directing the eye standpoint. 2 and 6 probably come closest. 5 is a mess.

4 might work if they lose the background image of the floating city in the left portion and replace it or leave it blank. Maybe move Songbird a little lower, and closer.

@Sooty said:

I don't understand why people care about box art. The spine is the only thing you actually really see in a collection.

This stuff is nice, but I will not be reversing the cover, actually wait, I won't even have one because I'll buy it on PC.

As an illustrator, or in more accurate terms, "someone who spends a lot of time drawing and thinking about composition, narrative in art, and color schemes", box art is pretty important to me. I understand that the game itself is the real meat and potatoes, however, the box art is something that exists to fill many purposes. There's no narrative in many game boxes nowadays, no visual story being conveyed other than "here is a dude, there is action" or "here is a dude's close up face" or "here is a dude and he looks solemn". There's a real lack of actual artistry being done for games and movies like this, novels too. Everything decent is relegated to fancy repackaging (like those amazing Barns and Noble classics). They should exist to not only catch your attention, but to tell you what you need to know (who is this about, what are they doing, or what are they looking for), and then it makes you ask further questions, ideally enough to make you care and buy it.

However, none of that shit means anything anymore, its all name recognition and advertising.

@Brodehouse:@Brodehouse said:

You're exactly right. I think people are going "look how different it looks, it must be great" when the image is actually kind of a mess in terms of composition. Most of these are. People are making the Brad Mistake, which is going "this must have artistic value beyond the normal because it looks different".

Or you know. It looks good. To the eye. I like it.