I've always had a love for both art and video games and find these kinds of things very fascinating and informational. There is a small part of me that wished I pursued more of an art career so I could have maybe got in to this industry, but that's alright!
This a large portion of my slowly growing collection, with just a few images of the pages of each. If you like what you see I urge you to go out and make the purchase, they really are splendid and these pictures do not do them justice. The artists that make these are outstanding professionals and a lot of whats in these books, I would consider frame worthy. I've included a link to each book's amazon page so if you are interested, have a click. There is a lot of games that have very nice art books though, so go out and see if your favorites have one!
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(also, sorry if the quality isn't that great, they are cell phone pictures)
Assassin's Creed: The Complete Visual History
Amazon
Of all the Assassin's Creed books I have, this is by far the best one. It has the most and the largest images compared to the other AC artbooks, and it goes through each of the games individually.
The Art of Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag
Amazon
Lots of ship images, but I was really hoping for some detailed schematic like drawings. But still a great book!
The Art of Assassin's Creed: Unity
Amazon
A lot of really great interior/ architecture images, unfortunately much of it is very dark and depressing, which I don't think is as apparent in the actual game.
The Art of Destiny
Amazon
Some good character design and a few pages of logos and emblems used in game. Also of all my artbooks this one feels the best physically. The paper is a good texture and the images are super crisp.
The Art of Total War: From the Samurai of Japan to the Legions of the North
Amazon
Beautiful landscape paintings of course, but a lot of the images are also very small which is super disappointing. Also quite a few 3d renders shown in this book which is nice.
The Art of The Last of Us
Amazon
Whole lot of character design in this one. Most of the other images are also very theatrical and intended to tell a story by themselves.
The Art of Battlefield 1
Amazon
Many of the paintings included in this book are very much movie poster style which is really nice, they are really well done. Also a lot of action images, which is great for a war game.
The Art of Alice: Madness Returns
Amazon
Very abstract and grotesque like the game. I'll be honest, I didn't really play this game, my wife did. But I did watch her play a bit of it and she bought this artbook and it is really interesting. If your in to this kind of art style, it has a lot of inspirational images.
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