Editing Cyberpunk v3 (section)

==Artwork and Design==
[[Image:CPV3_1.jpg|thumb|right|No kidding, the book actually shipped with these.]]
What's black and white and green all over? ''Cyberpunk v3'', that's what! The pages of the core book and its supplements are laid out within a kind of monochrome tablet computer screen border graphic, with black and white text boxes on a green background. There's a lot of green, and it isn't easy on the eyes. Even the artwork has a green tint to it. Seeing as those horrible green-on-black PC monitors went out at the beginning of the nineties, this could be seen as a tribute either to classic eighties cyberpunk or to the ''Matrix'' series of films.

The artwork probably drew more criticism than any other aspect of the game. It consisted of green-tinted black-and-white photos of action figures and other toys with model buildings and other backgrounds. One classic example was of a figure mounted on a motorbike on the roof of a tower block. How did Action Man get his bike up there? How was he supposed to  get it down? Never mind, it looks cool, sort of.

The internet is rife with speculation as to why R. Talsorian chose to use this artwork rather than pay a graphic artist (or just re-use artwork from their previous books). One explanation is that Mike Pondsmith was a keen collector of action figures, and he thought it would look good. Another is that the photos were just supposed to be a guide to artists who were to be hired to complete the project, but the editors at R. Talsorian never got the memo. The first explanation seems more plausible than the second.  A third possibility is that R. Talsorian was suffering from financial troubles at the time and simply couldn't afford artists.