September 2000 – Page 8 – Lollipop Magazine

Gamma Ray- Blast From the Past – Review

September 1, 2000

This two-CD best-of is for anyone who sees metal reduced to jocks with funny hair and ball caps. Since when is metal the music of choice in the weight room?

X-Men – Mutant Academy – Review

September 1, 2000

X-Men: Mutant Academy is a disappointing two-dimensional fighting game that does no justice to the thirty-year-old comic property it represents.

Vampire the Masquerade – Redemption – Review

September 1, 2000

Vampire the Masquerade: Redemption is the first title inspired by White Wolf Studio’s pen & paper role-playing game popular with the Gothic kids.

Coroner’s Corner – Kill Me And I Will Haunt Your Ass – Column

September 1, 2000

The premise of What Lies Beneath turns out to be strikingly similar to that of Stir of Echoes. In short, a presence is making itself known in order to shed light on how its earthly body was murdered.

Shogun – Total War – Review

September 1, 2000

Best described as a highly-centralized, very complex variation on Risk, Shogun has the look and feel of an exceptionally complicated and challenging board game.

Dark Reign 2 – Review

September 1, 2000

Other than the dynamic and awe-inspiring but tactically useless camera, innovation in Dark Reign 2 generally tweaks rather than invents.

F.Y.P. – Toys that Kill – Review

September 1, 2000

After ten years of fuckin’ up the place, F.Y.P. call it quits. Toys that Kill, is the next band’s name. 17 songs in under 30 minutes. Produced by Blag.

Funker Vogt – Maschine Zeit – Review

September 1, 2000

No better or worse than the pretty good industrial bands who drone on and on with the same beats, yet they add some nice melodies every so often.

Lost Saints and Wayward Sinners (plus that dork who did Pi) – Column

September 1, 2000

Quills works much better than Stardom because Kaufman is probably one of the only filmmakers working today other than David Lynch or Matthew Bright who understands that if you’re making a flick about or relating to smut, you must also be smutty in your filmmaking.

Frankie Machine – One – Review

September 1, 2000

While some might find the modernization of Cheap Trick’s style nothing special, to find a band that keeps it interesting, song after song, that’s something.