★ DEMOSCENE ★ DISCMAGS ★ IMPACT #4|Amstrad Action) ★ |
| Impact #4 | Demoscene Discmags |
At the moment I'm busily munching my way through a hot cross bun. I'm trying to avoid the massive white cross, so I'm carefully manoeuvring my teeth around it so that I don't slice through. (What is this guy on about? - Karen) It's quite a challenge. And once I've finished, I'll review Impact, which is quite a challenge as well. Just like the hot cross bun, its a case of shifting around to find the best bits. I mean, who wants to plough through all the weird short stories that litter this disc? Actually, they're not too bad, they're just a bit of a hindrance. Take a look at the article menu, for example, and you see a line screaming, ‘DIY scrolling texf. So you dutifully check it out, only to discover the instructions require biros, and not Stephen Fry. (Eh?-Karen) What else? Oh yes. An excellent warbling ditty, which sounds just a tad like the Croco Magneto tune, plays in the background while you peruse the various articles. Design? Well, if s colourful enough when you first start and the menu stage looks pretty impressive, but when you load up some text, it resorts to a white background with black text. It's all white (sorry, right) once you get used to it, but it does take away some of the glitz. Okay, it does have its good points. There's a fair number of reviews and news pieces, which should whet your appetite, and, to be perfectly fair, the short stories are good for a spot of light relief (after all, what good's a fanzine if you can't have a laugh?}. It's also obvious that Tom has targeted an audience with a weird sense of humour. I'll be lenient then, and give it a reasonable, non suicide-inducing mark. After all, it is free. But I should stress that it's still middle of the road stuff -and if it lingers there much longer it's going to get hit by a bus. AA
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