Technical research into Game covers

After looking at the evolution of game covers and how they have changed throughout the years it is easy to pick out a few ideas that all game covers abide by.

Apart from the legal things that have to be on the game covers we can see that not all game covers have the generic structure of; title, main character(or place), logo. However we can see that they all aim for the same effect.#

• Be striking
• Grab attention
• Persuade 
• Entice
• Plant the idea of wanting to buy the game or to make the viewer want to look up information about the product