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Message: <blockquote data-quote="(un)reason" data-source="post: 9039947" data-attributes="member: 27780">Polyhedron UK 6: March 2000part 4/5Brief Books: The book reviews are barely reviews this time, more just recommendations. Any opinions on Snuff Fiction or Sex & Drugs & Sausage Rolls by Robert Rankin, the Babylon 5 omnibus, Stargate SG1: The price you pay, Star Wars: Tales of the New Republic or Batman: The Long Halloween? That's a lot of big franchise tie-ins. Odd thing to prioritize.Figure Reviews: Another sign of their ambition to be a general purpose gaming magazine. We haven't had minis reviews in a few years and it seems their popularity is down a bit due to CCG's taking up shelf space and the increasingly strict regulations on what material they can be made of. But there's still more than enough new releases to fill a column like this, although their limited art budget means they don't put up photos of all of them like the old Dragon column. Games Workshop continue to be a reliable source of various kinds of undead, goblinoids and ratmen etc, even if the vampires favour B-movie cheesiness over refinement. Grendel Productions sent some large dragon kits that require a bit of work to put together, but are suitably towering over your regular minis once you do. Reaper minis have finally made it over this side of the pond, and get general praise for both their quality and variety. Finally, Wargames Foundry are the ones to go to if you want a more historical selection of figure like cowboys or pirates. All pretty general and blandly positive so far. They'd need to get more specific and critical to make this column last any length.Megabyte: Prince of Persia 3D is our only computer game review, and a distinctly negative one. The idea is there, but the implementation is sorely lacking, with speed being either painfully slow or impossible to react to fast if your computer isn't exactly the specs the designers intended. The physics are inconsistent and the level design is poor. All the pretty graphics, music & cut-scenes can't distract from that. But we're still going to give it an overall score of 6, because we're not monsters. I would have been much harsher, and apparently so were many other magazines at the time. At least they learned from their mistakes and put the work in properly next game.</blockquote>

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