8 AMAZING Box-Arts That Made You Buy BAD Games

The box art for Drake of the 99 Dragons might seem just a teensy bit dated now, but back in 2003 it looked set to be the jam of just about every anime-loving teenager obsessed with comic books and The Matrix.

The cover is basically a checkbox of over-designed early aughts video game art tropes - an edgy, hyper-masculine main character holding two guns while doing battle with a fleet of cyborgs in a sleek cel-shaded, line-heavy style. 

And to players of a certain persuasion in 2003, that was basically impossible to resist.

It was decidedly easier, however, to resist practically everything else about Drake of the 99 Dragons, given its godawful shooting controls, maddeningly difficult enemies, incomprehensible story, laughably bad dialogue, and janky cutscenes.

Over 20 years on, it continues to top most lists of all-time worst Xbox-exclusive games, and rightly so. The "we made the poster first and designed the game around it" energy is strong with this one.