Analysis Of Game Covers

The other ancillary task is to produce a game cover for our games package. I believe the best way to ensure the game cover created for our games package was attractive was to look at recent game covers for games released recently.

Grand Theft Auto V

In this game cover for Grand Theft Auto V for PS4 uses a collage of images representing different features in the game.

Theme
The theme of this game is clearly presented on the game cover from being an acton packed game because it shows lots of things going on. You can see this game has many different features and targets the mass market because of the collage of images.

Age
In the bottom left hand corner, you can clearly see this game is aimed at over 18s. The reason this game has been given a high age restriction is because of the nature of the game.

Gender
The images feature female and male characters showing that both male and female are being targeted by this game.

F1 2012

In this game cover for F1 2012 for PS3, a racing car is featured on the front cover which clearly shows the genre which is a racing game.

Theme
The title and the front cover tells you that it is a non-violent game and it's also a racing game. This means it is appealing to fans of racing games.

Age
There is an age restriction of 3+ which is very low and aimed at a lot of people. This means the age recommendation of this game is to anyone 3+. It's a simple game to play on and has no blood, gore or any nature of violence. 

Gender
The colours that are used on the front cover are blue, red and white but blue is appeal to fans of racing defiantly the most outstanding colour on the case. They have done this because they are targeting the game mainly towards the male gender. It is stereotypical games. that a male is on the front of the F1 cover because males are the only gender that race F1 cars.