7 Times Epic Box Art Overpromised Wildly

Box art usually gives you an idea of what to expect from the game. But sometimes the box art is so ridiculously epic that no game could ever live up to it. Consider our seven favourites. Subscribe! http://tinyurl.com/SubToOxbox

In the days before you had Metacritic and YouTube on your phone, you had to consider things such as box art when you were out buying games. Most of the time it gave you a pretty good idea what to expect, but consider these videogames whose epic box arts wrote cheques their actual gameplay couldn't cash.

For example, the cover for Saboteur 2: Avenging Angel is a ninja on a superbike fighting panthers with a katana in the middle of an explosion. There is no way that is not going to be the greatest game of all time, right?

Except that it came out in 1987, when moving gradually from one side of the screen to the other was considered the height of pulse-pounding action gameplay. There are panthers though! Sad, slow, non-threatening panthers. You’d be better off propping the box art in front of your screen and just looking at that, to be honest.

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