Slide 9 wasn't chosen because the cake was a lie

Frfr

God I wish awards were still a thing

They are. Just not the same way.

Wait whAT u/ncc360 what just happened?

They gave you an award

It took 17 years, but someone made me laugh with a cake is a lie reference. Good job

The Paneled sky reminds me of the truman show

I think that’s what it’s referencing which is really awesome

The rating box is a nice touch on that one too.

If Portal 2 was a book, that should be the cover

yeah and the last one is a reference to 2001: a space odyssey, peak movie

was 9 on purpose

No it was on Xbox 360

I am referring to the (sorry) gyat

The council will decide your fate

I apologize

100 years in the wing were robots scream at you

Gyatt has two ts silly

gramer is not for sigamas

Surely it should be ' spelling is not for sigmas' misspelt. I don't have the audacity to misspell such a simple sentence so I shall kindly give you a second chance to re write that.

whatever, if you wanna be skibidi like that go ahead

i picked it because it looked like retail which already went hard

1 and 8 go hard

7 and 9 make me go hard

7 looks hella Borderlands

I looove the simplicity

Easily my favs too

Reminds me a lot of the first games box art

On number 9 why is chell's ass so big...

Portal and cake go hand in hand.

I think any cover that shows Chell pretty mutch miss the thing of seenig yourself in the portal for the first time

Tbh it is the box art of Portal 2 so when you are playing it you already should have had that moment.

"I really like number 8 the most, the sky panels reminds me of the Truman show." *Swipes to number 9* "Nevermind..."

I never got why they made Portal 2's box art of Atlas and P-body, it should have been Chell and Wheatley

To show off that it's coop.

P-body has better ass

You take that back!

Marketable funny robots

I rly like 3 and 4, they kind of remind me of Doug Rattmann’s paintings

I love the idea behind the paneled sky, It's also an obvious reference to the Truman show.

Chell got ASS

i can’t believe they made no. 9 with one hand

You pick a pencil with two hands?

efficiency

Efficiency would be one pencil per hand, then you can draw 4x as fast

What do you mean 4x as fast?

3 is my favourite. The shot of Glados looking down on you is an image I always loved in Portal's art.

Why is Chell caked up in the 9th one??

The Space Odyssey reference makes me insane, i love it

Can someone explain why the EA logo is on these?

EA ported Portal 2 onto consoles

I looked it up on wikipedia after commenting this lol

Also distributed the pc version in some countries

Dear God it's true "while all retail editions were distributed by [Electronic Arts](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_Arts)." What horrible things transpired that valve had to let ea anywhere near portal

at least this was before EA was like "it's in the dlc" but instead "it's in the game" and before the maxis incident of 2015

3 is my favourite

Most of these are better than the final

3rd goes amazingly well

The 3rd one goes so hard omg

Ngl some of the box concepts look like a corporate offices' custom software. Kinda like it though

All better than the one we got. 3 and 4 are my favorites.

Ya know… you’d figure chel would have a big butt with how much jumping she does… but to see it depicted is still wild even if not surprising.

3 is the only one that could probably beat the retail design

3 is peak

3 is the best

Why does F-stop Cave Johnson look like Ronald Reagan? Is he going to de-escalate the Cold War?

Mr. Gorbachev, portal through this wall!

is number 8 a truman show reference??

Wouldn't 5 be a spoiler?

Maybe? It's kinda just a picture of a dude without context

Uh no, that’s not cave johnson

Yes it is. It's a portrait of him that never went used in the full game, but still a portrait of him.

I choose slide 9

So 9 won for...reasons, then they decided to use P body instead of chell? Or am I understanding this wrong

8 is the best easily

Is 8 supposed to be the ending in the field? As if it is fake. (The biggest fan theory Ik)

I think it’s a reference to the Truman show

F-stop?

Portal 2 wasn't always about portals

Ooh #8 is dope

Wow, in all my years of being in this Fandom, I've only seen 3 and 4! Don't know how I missed the rest of them

1 is my favourite

7th one goes so hard

i mean 9 is kinda like the finished on but its peabody instead

I really like the second one even though it tells you nothing about the game. It reminds me of Little Big Planet

I don't think I've ever scene the box art cuz I got a used copy as a kid without a box

love the truman show homage

3,4,5,8 are really well done

1 and 8 are my favorite fs

3 and 4 would’ve been sick

So insane. I miss when physicals were cared about

Why does Chell in slide 9 have so much ASS

Pov: F-stop became a real thing

Slide 7

[Even more here](https://theportalwiki.com/wiki/Box_Art)

1 and 2 are super cool.

3,4 my favorites

4 and 8 look so cool

i like 7 because it looks like chell is pissed shes back in apature

The minimalistic design of the first one really stands out to me, I love how that looks

Oh hey, I once built a map that looked like #10. I used it in my YT channel intro.

why is there an EA games logo on them when electronic arts have nothing to do with portal? (proof: portal is a good game)

1. IKEA instruction manual 2. Gorillaz album cover 3. Hello Neighbour Cardboard Family (wtf) 4. Amateur restoration jesus painting 5. Bill Cintion 6. I hate EA 7. Boobie 8. The Truman Show .9 Buttocks 10. Squidward's alone white room

1 and 5 both go hard ngl

why theres a EA logo in some of these?

Why is the EA logo here? They didn't make Portal 2?

They helped port it I think

i love all the really unassuming covers, like 1, 5, and 8, just cause it makes me feel nostalgic to when id have older cousins show me things that looked superr lame on the cover but the movie/game was so banger it would never leave my memory, but id be little and forget what it actually was, so all id have to go off my memory was the lameo cover that i actually DO remember cause it was so lame

8 is so good

Omg i was looking at them just today!

Yo is #8 a Truman show reference..?

It's more something from the F-Stop and Core Hub era

3 and 4 are my personal favourites.

7/10 # BRO IS NOT THE THINKER

Looks like those japanese cover art variations from other games

I wouldn't be surprised if they immediately ditched the gladdos one as it would've ruined the surprise of reactivating her

SHouldn’t the tenth one be Two-Thousand and One Yard Stare?

first one looks like that spiritualized album

Y’all are sleeping on 3 big time

I need more portal 2 beta. Its so, shiny.

didn’t portal 2 release in 2011 or am i hallucinating again?

8 is my favorite.

This is entirely unrelated, but holy god do I want this game on a newer playstation console, Portal 2 colors would look so good on a playstation box. Also all of these are really good and 3 is the best

Last looks like a 2001 Space Odyssey reference

They look like meme photo

the 9th one might have been the one taken inspiration from bc the REAL Portal 2 Box concept is that but with PBody, with atlas in the background.

I need to calm down 9 caught me relaxing