Editing Cyberpunk (role-playing game) (section)

===Third edition: ''Cyberpunk V3.0''===
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''Cyberpunk V3.0'' is set in the 2030s, and was published in 2005. It takes ''Cyberpunk'' into a [[transhumanist]] setting in the aftermath of a fourth Corporate War. The global NET has been corrupted and rendered unusable, as has much hardcopied data, throwing human history into doubt. Six new subcultures have emerged, known as Altcults; one such group are the Edgerunners, successors to the cyberpunks of previous editions.<ref name="cpv3rpgnet">{{cite web |url=https://www.rpg.net/reviews/archive/14/14681.phtml |title=Review of Cyberpunk v3 |last=Cowen |first=Richard |date=February 1, 2010 |website=RPGnet |access-date=May 16, 2020 |quote=See, ''Cyberpunk v3.0'' isn’t actually a cyberpunk setting, in the same sense that the previous editions where. It’s more or less a post-human setting these days. And that’s where the setting falls apart. You see, ''v3.0'' can’t decide what it wants to be, and exemplifies its inability to decide by splitting society into six ‘alt-cults’, each latching onto a particular ideology... |archive-date=April 27, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230427003636/https://www.rpg.net/reviews/archive/14/14681.phtml |url-status=live }}</ref>

The third edition uses the [[Fuzion]] game system, rather than [[Interlock System|Interlock]]. The artwork in the book used photographs of [[action figures]] and toys instead of hand-drawn art like in previous editions.<ref>{{Cite web |title=A Thorough and Objective Review [Cyberpunk v3.0] {{!}} Cyberpunk V3.0 |url=https://rpggeek.com/thread/664758/thorough-and-objective-review-cyberpunk-v30 |access-date=September 27, 2022 |website=BoardGameGeek |language=en-US |quote=Most of the images are pictures of 80s and 90s toy action figurines with modifications trying to make them look futuristic. |archive-date=March 7, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230307101319/https://rpggeek.com/thread/664758/thorough-and-objective-review-cyberpunk-v30 |url-status=live }}</ref> Both the change of setting and the artwork within the book received negative criticism.<ref name="cpv3bgg">{{cite web |url=https://boardgamegeek.com/thread/664758/thorough-and-objective-review-cyberpunk-v30 |title=A Thorough and Objective Review [Cyberpunk v3.0] |author=Peter |date=June 16, 2011 |website=BoardGameGeek |access-date=May 16, 2020 |quote=On a personal level, Cyberpunk v3.0 was a let down on every level. The art, rules, setting, even the system wasn’t used to its full potential in my opinion... |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200713155455/https://boardgamegeek.com/thread/664758/thorough-and-objective-review-cyberpunk-v30 |archive-date=July 13, 2020 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

From 2007 to 2008, two sourcebooks were published to accompany this edition.