Usa high tech & low life, the art of shadowrun

Nice selection of art, though the obmission of any pieces by Timothy Bradstreet is notable given how popular he is and how prominently his artwork features in some of the sourcebooks

However, the presentation could be much better: It is bland in the extreme

Each image is centred on the middle of a white page

Opposite page is white, with small text indicating the title and artist

Very dry

I suppose this would suffice for a traditional artbook, but this is Shadowrun, people! The cyberpunk theme screams for visual overload

Some visual pizazz would have helped immensely

As would have comments by the artist of each piece

Worse still, the pictures all have a slightly faded quality to them

Indeed, comparing some pieces to the original book covers, the pieces here are noticeably less vibrant, looking rather washed out

Finally, the pieces are all forced to fit into the page with one-inch borders around each image

They'd have looked far better filling up as much page space as possible

It makes you want to scream in fustration

Even 'wide' pieces which you'd think would be presented sideways to maximise the size (such that you'd have to turn the book 90 degrees to view it) are instead presented vertically like all the other pages, thereby shrinking them to less than 1/5th the page size! The only good thing I can say about the presentation is that very glossy oversized thick paper stock has been used

Otherwise, this book is a major disappointment.