A Message from Ken Levine

I chose number 5 but would have taken #1 if the composition was better. Combine #1 and #4 and you have a winner. I am buying the game regardless. Also, Having a Woman on the cover will sell this game!

I would like a poster of #4, please and thank you.

I think 4 would make like, the best standalone piece of art but for a game cover I really like what you guys had, I picked #3

Glad to see Ken et al do what they can, but have to say that it’s a pretty sad state of our current social media climate when a generation has become so self-entitled that some literally whined about the bloody cover art. The picture. On the box.

Right off the bat, I knew what the cover was doing, but hell…still loved it. Everything I’ve seen so far, the trailers, the gameplay…it all looks incredible. Cannot wait for this to drop. Kudos to Irrational.

I like #4 for its simple, classy, book cover feel.

Desing 4.

Design 4 reminds me so much of Chris Riddell’s work who did illustrated the edge chronicles, which I love and that’s why I voted for number 4

4 reminds me of old school game box art and it looks pretty awesome so i’ll go with #4

Gotta say I am loving design #4 although if you made posters for each of these I would love you forever and buy them on day one.

Lovely

Call me back when you add in more than two equippable weapons and plasmids, maybe I’ll be interested when you’re not just lazily making it for consoles and obviously making a shit port for the PC

I love design #6, but Songbird is making a chin down, eyes up expression and that is not OK with me.

I personally chose Design #5. In my view, it’s the only design where the focus is entirely on the Bioshock Infinite logo. If were shopping around for a game to buy, I’d be drawn by the logo. And then there’s all the eyecandy around it with the characters. It’s more mainstream than the other five designs. If you want to reach to a wider audience, I think this is the way to go. Don’t get me wrong, the other’s are great. I love #4 and #6. But those are for us true gamers who will enjoy them to full content. My five cents.

Nobody wins against marketing? Naughty Dog would beg to differ.

That said, I’m torn between #4 and #6. Also, this should be for the outer cover.

Design 4! 🙂

I voted for No. 4 because it reflects the time period but covers 3 and 5 would make superb box arts for the regular cover. If it was a vote for the initial box art, it would be one of those two.

Love Design 4, would love it even more if you stylized the Bioshock Infinite logo to match the design. Ultimately, just excited you are even doing this!

#4. Second favorite is #2. Am I voting correctly, like, by saying it? Can’t find an automatic way to vote.

Agree with f0rtysevin. An easy #6 for me, love the Songbird but really needs Elizabeth in #4 to make it more personal, just like the Bioshock covers with both Big Daddy AND Little Sister. A lovely mirror to those covers. However, I won’t be heartbroken if #4 wins.

Design #4 is the most radically different-looking of all of the choices, and I think it gives off a very welcome “Devil in the White City” vibe, which, of course, also means it’s delightfully period-y. It’s great. I overwhelmingly support it.

As an aside, I find it quite humorous that I feel a much stronger gravity in voting for this than I did in the recent U.S. Presidential Election.

Design #6, it reminds me of the Little Sister and Big Daddy bond from the first Bioshock and shows the relationship between Songbird and Elizabeth.

#4 is beautiful, it’s the only one we have never seen before?
Also, Song Bird is clearly performing the ‘Sign of the horns’ with his right hand. ROCK!

Um…awkward moment yeah guys? Um…clearly Design #4 shouldn’t just be the reversible Box Art but it should have been the MAIN box art. But hey, why go for something bold, fresh and aesthetically pleasing when you can plumb for yet another generic “man with short hair stares enigmatically off into the distance whilst holding a really big gun” picture. Because we haven’t had enough of those in 2012 have we so why change for 2013?

As long as it isn’t 3 and 4, it’s a win.

I feel as though design #6 is the most interesting one.

And it’s a shame it can’t be the main cover, because design #6 would definitely stick out on the shelves at stores and make people give it a look at the very least.

#4 is nice too, but it looks like something that should be on a special edition of the game, like a game of the year version or something.

I like design #5, but you need to bring Elizabeth’s image down in saturation to match the ‘low saturation’ of color in the rest of the picture. Her coloring is too bold and out of place.

Design # 4 is clearly the most popular and fits as a game cover really well because it is interesting to look at. My only problem is that the red Color scheme of it seems off, like it doesn’t fit for some reason I would have made look like an old newspaper clipping, diffrent shades of browns,blacks and whites to give it that old american feel.

I wish the boxart they’ve been using was a choice (the logo in the sky, a la /site/uploads/sites/2/2012/12/IG_logo_480x351.jpg)
I was saddened to see the need for anything else…

Love them all. Went with #5.

3 should be the main cover.
6 should be the reversible.
Everything else should die in a fire.

I really love #5. it features both main characters prominently, which was the main problem I had with the original, but it still looks similar to the original, like an alternate version. It gives a better idea of what sets this game apart from others, but it would still appeal to casual gamers who don’t know much about bioshock. I think #5 would work great as the primary version of the box art.

What about Alex Garner’s Saturday Evening Post cover (http://fav.me/d4ndisa)?
The only problem with it is that he cast Nolan North as Booker.

All is grat in each way but I say those with old look suits best and if should do some tradition from old games then 2 as the handyman is like the big daddy and the boy is the little sister. or 6 with alpha daddy as the songbird and Elizabeth as Eleanor, but I love 4 too.

the only thing about # 4 i dont like is that it looks the cover of a children’s book. I would like to see the city with a different medium and style of art more fitting with the time the game takes place. Though we all know the game is going to be awesome, so I don’t mind .

I vote for Design #4

Have to say the choice for #4 is the best can see here, no offense to the others. Like the original cover on the first game you get a sense intrigue asking what beast of a creature is on the over and what does it have to do with a floating city? It gives you that old timey feel as well for what the universe Columbia about being the good ole America in one sense. The other titles show some good action and charming charisma but in anycase thank you kindly for allowing us to vote on something new for our upcoming Bioshock gem. ^-^

In this post you say, “reversible cover”. I assume you guys have tested this, because otherwise I feel that a reversible cover would be difficult to bend around and keep it to stay nicely without harming it. Why not instead just release it with extra covers? That way they won’t likely be damaged, and you can give more than 1!

I like the 4th one because it shows Columbia.

Design 5 looks pretty cool to me i’d be happy with that one.

I’m going with design #5 taking my vote. I really do like #6 too. Design #3 would have been OK but Booker really needs trigger discipline otherwise things might get messy for poor Elizabeth.

Premium edition and Songbird edition include them all, that’s the deal.

I think title of Bioshock is stick of an imaging of a majestic city, so i think 4 is the best because that can give an example what game will be, but i think it will be better if add Elizabeth holded by The Song Bird with Booker want to reach them, just like titanic cover we all know this game is about love story between Booker, Elizabeth and Song Bird, those are must in the cover with the media to tell their story, media is in titanic (ship) in Bioshock (Panorama of the city). maybe like that

and i think cover in video game is one of the most important thing to make people love that game. so make it memorable and everyone will remind that.

Design #4

I look at Design #6 and all I see is PHALLUS WEARING A MONOCLE …being touched by Elizabeth… *AWKWARD*

I love #5 and #3 …I like the syle of #4 …but the image is still a bit weird.
#1 would be awesome if DeWitt and Elizabeth were shown together, or if the background had SOME detail …as is it’s just too plain.

Number FOOOOOUUUUUR (4)
Really, no discussion there.

4 and 6 are my favorites.
Very Jules Verne-sque. 🙂

Number 4 is my favourite! I wish it could be the front cover. It looks so much better than this dudebro cover.

I say you could get away with Cover 3 being the actual main cover. It’s for the crowd you’re aiming for, but can also somewhat please your longtime fans
But as the reverse fan-pick cover, my vote was between 4 and 5. 5 was only because I am so used to seeing that art everywhere I grew attached to it. 4 is just nice and artsy.
I see 6 is in 2nd place, but to me that seems more appropriate for back of the box art, or the art on the instruction booklet haha

Number # 6 🙂

#6 and #4 are my favorites, and #2 is good as well. I liked the period-style art that Game Informer had on its cover when they announced the game in 2010. #6 was even one of the alternate covers for the magazine.

#5 would have been a better choice for the “live action” cover, but apparently FPS fanboys don’t like females appearing on the game cover, and they’d rather gaze longingly at a brooding stubble-faced (or stubble-headed) loner dood with a gun.

I was disappoint, Irrational. But now there’s a way to truly provide fan service. What say we make the winner of this poll the MAIN box art and the existing corporate choice the alternate?

all the art is great. #4 is very different (and thus cool) but i really feel like elizabeth deserves some of the spotlight, with pic #6 getting my vote. it has a very cool (Saturday evening post) look, plus it balances out both protagonists getting a fare share of the box art. the ladies deserve this cover, really.

I’m fine with #4 or #5.

My vote goes to cover #4.

Second choice is cover #2.

Third choice is cover #6.

Well #1 seems so empty, #2 is the best (not my favorite) in both design and implementation, #3 is not so diffrent from the default cover, #4 is my favorite `cause i think it`s the most lore-accordingly appropriate; in design, only if the logo was better colored, #5 seems just like a random mashup, and #6 is just like #2, except for the logo problem .

Fist you complain there is no Elizabeth on the cover. Then you go and vote for yet another one without her. I don’t get it. #4 doesn’t have the bioshock color theme nor Elizabeth.#5 for the Cover and #6 or #1 for the reversible cover is my vote. The display of the emotional connection in #6 makes me feel like i did when playing the first two games between the Big daddy and the little sisters.

Whichever one is picked …. i’m just happy that IG decided to ask the community.
Good job guys.

i think #3 is the best choice since it showed of some kind of creepy and mystery past waiting to be rvealed by an unspected company.

Wow! What an awesome way to pull in the fans IG! The most important question to ask in this scenario is, “When I pull this game off the shelf, what will the cover art inspire in me?” #6 hits this on the head. Bioshock was all about the relationships between characters. Almost every time Ken talks about this upcoming game, he talks about the dynamics between the characters. So, with that mindset, it seems there will be no relationship more important than that between Elizabeth and her monstrous captor. It provides Booker’s motive and purpose. It is the epicenter of this game and what it stands for. That’s what the box art should inspire in you, the core of what the game represents.

OOPS! Accidentally voted for #5, but I meant to vote for #3.

There doesn’t seem to be any way to redo my vote, so please add one more for #3, thanks!

I have to agree with sarethw comment of design #3, the game cover should show the main character and AI companion that give us an description of who will it be in and it tell us that they are the main source of this game.

design #2 all the way, the handymen are like the equivalent to the Big Daddies. And the art work on that one is just classic Bioshock. But, I do understand why #4 got the top vote, people eat that artsy shit up.

I like number 4, but i wouldve loved to have number 6. Unfortunately I wish that the logo on number 4 went with the style of the rest of the cover

Thank you to those who voted for design 4.

I like design five!
I’ve always loved that picture, the first i saw of infinite.