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The front cover uses Lara Croft as an iconic sign to show buyers who the main protagonist of the game is – Lara as a sign can be seen as radical as she is shown holding guns, something not typically seen everyday. The title is also a symbolic sign presenting an idea of the atmosphere of the game and shows the name of the main character – Lara Croft – and which edition of the game it is, it does a good job of presenting a lot of information with a small amount of text. Furthermore on the front cover there is the symbolic sign of the age rating – this symbol tells buyers that only people aged 12 and above are allowed to play the game. In addition, the iconic sign of the xbox symbol represents which system the game is played on – and that it wont be played on any others.

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The back cover uses an iconic sign of an Egyptian relic to further help show the atmosphere of the game to buyers, and draw in those interested in the subject. Furthermore there is another symbolic age rating sign – reminding buyers only people aged 12 and up can play the game.

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The front cover uses the iconic sign of the main character – Samus Aran – in a space suit to present immediately what the game will contain and be about. The front cover also uses the title as an indexical sign to help further this as it has a futuristic design connoting that the game will be set in the future, which also tells buyers what the game is called. In addition it also has the Gamecube sign, telling buyers that the game can only be played on gamecube. Furthermore, this cover also has the symbolic age rating sign – also reminding buyers that only people 12 and over can play the game. There is also an indexical sign of the nintendo logo, showing that nintendo is the company who published the game. Finally there are 2 PAL symbols on the front cover – showing that the game can only be played in PAL regions and will not work elsewhere.