There are also big illustrations of the characters of the game (along some nice renders). Their also cover the propaganda art related to the Nazis. Their cover the content of the game per level (in the story order). Wolfenstein New order is also interesting. I really liked the mood of the game and the artbook cover it pretty well. Lots of details on the weapons, lot of concept for the environments and the furniture. Thief (2014) would be my second choice if you liked the environments of the game. The design process on Alice is really interesting. They also show content that is not present in the final game. Very well balanced and lots of good comments in addition of the amazing artworks. My number one recommendation would be Alice Madness Returns artbook, without hesitations. I would have really liked more environment hard and deconstruction about their 'broken' level design. I also don't recommend the artbook about DmC : Devil May Cry (2013) : this one is very short, hard to read because of the back cover and focus mostly on the monsters and the main character. I like characters, but environments too, and on this point the book had very little content.

Personally, I found the Bioshock Infinite artbook very disappointing. And feature the blizzard artstyle, which I like a lot. Blizzard Artbooks in general are really high quality. Actually shows the development of a whole universe and a lot of background information.

Have to get the one for the new game someday. Just nice character and environment designs.

Tomb Raider Artbook (of the 2013 game). Also the artbook shows not only finished artwork, but a lot of brainstorming ideas and sketches, which is really nice. I really liked the game and the unique designs. Quite expensive tho, but totally worth it Really glad to have one of these books, someday I have to get the other ones too. This guy is just insane and inspiration overload. Here is my personal top 5 from the books I own: So what are your favourite artbooks/sketchbooks you would recommend and why do you like them?7 Just wanted to hear/talk a bit about your favourite artbooks, since I think they are great as an additional source of inspiration - atleast for me it feels much better to actually flip through a book of art than to look at artwork on your screen.

Nausicaa watercolor impressions