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Keep exploring Kongregate with more badges and games! Spend your hard earned kreds on some of these games! Hide the progress bar forever? Yes No. Your game will start after this message close. Not too far off from the feeling in the Chinese cover is this cover from Denmark. It looks so different from the US edition but it captures the story perfectly. Now for something very different from Germany. A little bit of a twist on the familiar look, complete with the mockingjay, is the cover from Greece.

Japan takes the cover and runs with it in a more manga-style direction. Three more foreign covers which take their look from the US edition include, from the top, Korean, Spanish, and Turkish. In Romania, we get a girl staring at us as readers. Another foreign edition without the mockingjay but which makes the title almost a symbol itself, is the cover from Sweden. Taking things in an entirely different place is the Russian cover. Where is our fierce Katniss? This amazing cover doesn't even begin to do credit to how superbly odd Hotline Miami is.

The first severed limb to appear in our list, this is exactly the last thing you want to happen to you in Dead Space. And here's the second severed limb to make the list. A more inventive use than Dead Space , it manages to carry both humour and gore. Well played Valve. Instantly iconic, the Mortal Kombat logo has gone on to appear on sequels, card games, comics, films, TV shows and countless geek-owned t-shirts.

Opting for the old 'is it a book or a box', Baldur's Gate II is very stylish, instantly appealing to fantasy fans. The metallic grimace of Solid Snake reveals little of Metal Gear Solid 's substance, yet that cold hard stare is beguiling - you want to know what's so solid about this metal gear. One of the few racing titles to appear in our selection, the original Gran Turismo cover is arguably their best. It's bold and aggressive, and despite a lacklustre tagline, makes us want to go driving.

The correct way to make a cover look good with well balanced typography, A Link to the Past still looks gorgeous over twenty years after it was released. The arcade classic was a massive hit for the ill-fated Dreamcast. A bold cover, simple, striking and clean. We take off our hats to the artist who penned this Arkanoid cover. For a game whose major concern is bouncing a ball into a wall of bricks, this certainly makes the experience look a lot more Despite being over twenty years old, the Alien Breed cover is still a benchmark for scary.

Does exactly what it says on the box. The most ambitious cover art of the many Halo titles, it succeeds at depicting a moment of high action that many similar FPS covers fail to achieve. One of the most recent releases to make our list, Diablo III is diabolically sinister, and undeniably cool.

Making the wheelman cool long before Ryan had anything to do with it, the Driver cover is one of our all time favourites. Leading with its central nemesis, the BioShock cover manages to put across a lot more drama than its latest sibling BioShock Infinite. Journey of the Cursed King is another cover to demonstrate the effectiveness of beautiful drawing.

While the Wii version of the box contained an unfortunate hidden watermark advertising games site IGN, the PlayStation 2 cover of Okami is a glorious work of art. Should you manage to see your way past the grim PlayStation Move sticker, the Resistance 3 cover is a bold, striking piece of cover design. A radical shift from the first Mario cover to appear in our list, the Galaxy 2 case is an uplifting blast of colour and fun.

Think of all the mums and grandmas that will have been sucked in to buying this gem thanks to that chirpy little smile from Mario.

Beautiful contrast created by the orange and black colour choice of Scurge: Hive - a game noted for its brilliant aesthetic. Welcome to the utterly insane world of LocoRoco 2. We have no idea what's going on, but it looks like jolly good clean fun. We're not quite sure we could become obsessed with anything so mouldy as the cover of Daggerfall claims, but this atmospheric cover is certainly worthy of inclusion.

Today's Best Deals 1. ShortList is supported by you, our amazing readers. When you click through the links on our site and make a purchase we may earn a commission. Learn more. By Marc Chacksfield. Ico This boy-meets-girl story was as minimalist as its cover suggests.

Sonic and Knuckles Sonic was such an iconic character by that Sega were able to heighten the cool factor by reducing the insatiable hedgehog to this moody silhouette. Steel Empire The Japanese cover of this side-scrolling aerial war game is the epitome of steampunk. Phoenix From an era in which box art hinted at the grand visions the game's designers had attempted to capture in pixels, the Phoenix cover art is superbly over-the-top.

Awesome The box art for Awesome fulfils the title's promise. Secret of Mana A cover worthy of hanging on your wall, depicting the game's three protagonists gazing out over a gorgeous vista begging to be explored. Armored Core V The box art for Armored Core V is simplistically insightful - buy this game for bullets, mechs and lens flare.

Quake III Arena One of the granddaddy of all multiplayer games, the Quake III logo is wonderfully stylish, and resists the temptation of plastering the cover with massive guns.