8 AMAZING Box-Arts That Made You Buy BAD Games

8. Trespasser

It's tough to deny that the box art for Jurassic Park-themed first-person actioner Trespasser goes really damn hard, as the kids say these days.

We all have an insatiable interest in dinosaurs - evidenced by the ongoing success of the Jurassic Park movies despite their generally tawdry quality - and so Trespasser's in-your-face visual of a feral raptor screaming at you is tough to shake.

Moreover, the cover art also enticingly ballyhooed Trespasser as "the evolution of first-person 3D gaming" - which, releasing just weeks before Half-Life as it did, was actually still believable at the time.

And to be fair to Trespasser, it's not mere cynical junk like many of the games on this list. 

It's instead a game that's both innovative and awful - rightly celebrated for its large, open environments, impressive dino AI, state-of-the-art graphics, and extensive ragdoll physics, but dinged for being frustratingly clunky, bug-filled, and really quite boring when it comes down to it.

These issues were all largely attributed to the game being rushed to market, but at least we got some all-timer cover art out of it, and its innovative mechanics inspired a bevy of more successful FPS games, such as Halo: Combat Evolved and Far Cry.