Showing Half A Face On Box Art

Showing Half A Face On Box Art is a concept that appears in 26 games
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Why do some games only show half a face as their box art? Perhaps it's a sense of power or mystery. Either way, it makes for captivating boxart.

In the early days of gaming, box art was rather important. Gamers did not meet and discuss games over the internet back then, and the medium was not yet used to advertise games. As such, if a customer entered a store and saw a game that he did not know, the only thing he had to go on was how the cartridge looked.
 
These days, the industry has grown quite a bit, and the internet has become its main way of promoting games, through official websites, and through sites such as www.giantbomb.com. Consequently, most gamers already know more about a game when they walk into a store than the look of its packaging tells them. 
 
However, that hasn't--and shouldn't--detain artists from producing good-looking box art that does the game contained within justice. A technique that inevitably draws attention to the box is putting a face on there that looks mysterious, and then cutting that face in half. Sometimes, even more than half of the face is cut off, leaving nothing more than an eye or a mouth. Spyro: Enter the Dragonfly's box art is a good example of this.
Showing Half A Face On Box Art games Edit
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Name Platforms Developer
James Cameron's Avatar: The Game WII Ubisoft Montreal Studios
Phase Paradox PS2
Max Payne 3 released on June 1, 2010 X360, PS3 Rockstar Vancouver
God of War III released on March 16, 2010 PS3 Sony Computer Entertainment Incorporated, SCE Studio Santa Monica
Yakuza 3 released on March 9, 2010 PS3 Amusement Vision, Ltd.
S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat released on Feb. 2, 2010 PC GSC Game World
Kenka Bancho: Badass Rumble released on Nov. 10, 2009 PSN, PSP Spike Co., Ltd.
Ratchet & Clank Future: A Crack in Time released on Oct. 27, 2009 PS3 Insomniac Games
Way of the Samurai 3 released on Oct. 16, 2009 X360, PS3 Acquire
Tomb Raider: Underworld released on Nov. 18, 2008 X360, PS2, WII, PS3, DS, PC Crystal Dynamics, Inc.
General Information Edit
Concept Name: Showing Half A Face On Box Art
Appears in: 26 games
First appearance: Immercenary
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