Ever since we laid our eyes on the Half-Life 2: Orange Box cover art we have been a little perplexed by its simplistic design. The cover art featured a mostly orange background with white text explaining the contents and that was about it. We accepted the cover though and never made a fuss. But now it looks like Valve has had a change of heart and design philosophy. TeamXbox is reporting that Valve decided to re-design the Orange Box cover and now it actually features artwork! Indeed, it shows off beautiful Half-Life 2, Team Fortress 2 and Portal artwork! We're glad to see Valve add more art to the cover art and spiffy up the Orange Box, because it really looks good. Check out TeamXbox's supplied Half-Life 2: Orange Box cover viewable after the break.
(Image supplied by TeamXbox)
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6-30-2007 @ 6:29PM
intRvenous said...
agreed: this looks really amateur, almost 'fake' as someone mentioned. The original had a cool, almost eerie "City 17 sinage" feel to it. Much better.
If they're compelled to use 'artwork' it should just be the lambda with no text whatsoever - why does it HAVE to list all the games on the front?!?!
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6-30-2007 @ 8:08PM
Sean said...
they should have a black background, orange text. no picture. TEH EXTREMEZ0RZ
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6-30-2007 @ 9:04PM
mistian said...
I liked the first design better.
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6-30-2007 @ 9:52PM
Azerael said...
Way to make sucky box art, Valve.
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7-01-2007 @ 3:17AM
Rick said...
mcdeath ob, just for the record, the only version of the box art I had seen until now was a simple orange face with a texture on it, with no text. That's what I'd prefer to see over this new version. No reason to be a dick about it, but knock yourself out if you need to.
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7-01-2007 @ 3:23AM
Nick said...
Why are they still calling this "The Orange Box" if "The Black Box" was canceled?
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8-30-2007 @ 4:40PM
Andrew GO said...
That's some really bad artwork/design. It's a shame too, because Valve is usually pretty good with that kind of stuff. An orange box with three logos on it in black, that's all it should be.
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