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@t6@f02 SCENE-ERY
@t4@f00Issue reviewed - #03
Produced by - VLSI (Very Large
Scale Integration)
@t6PRESENTATATION AND DESIGN@t5
Lets get the good points over with
first, firtly this magazine has a
pleasent menu system. Its the sort I
like best. Your able to use your
mouse to control a pointer which, when
pointed at the contents operates a
menu bar. Ahhh gorgeous. Hmm, well
thats the good points over with. Lets
go back to the begining. Scene-ery is
fronted by a logo that looks like it
was drawn in 1978, by those standards
its still pretty bad. Its probably
unfair to criticise these points in
such a way, but it has to be said.
@^
The graphics make Cracker Journal's
titlepicture look like a Golem
masterpeice! They really are poor, you
think someone would tell the artist (I
use the term loosly) that he couldn't
draw, and stop the poor fellow from
wasting his time. Scene-ery shows
more promise, as I mentioned at the
begining of this review, when your get
to the magazine itself. The menu is
pleasent and easy to use. Ok, you
select your article, it loads a little
slowly, and appears!.. Glurk! The
only people who are going to be able
to read this text are the colour
blind! Perhaps the editors are colour
blind? Towards the bottom of the
@#@^@t5
screen are the control icons, and
article information. When you want to
move to the next page of an article it
actualy has to load each screen,which
makes reading the magazine
a great chore. The icons are pretty
awful too, minimalstic detail and
tastless colours make them totaly
unattractive. @t7 21/100
@t6CONTENT@t5
The magazine offers a little more in
the way of content than it does in the
presentation department I'm happy to
say, but not too much. The only
compliment I can give the contents is
"It could be worse!", the presentation
on the other hand could not. I think
that the makers of Scene-ery don't
really care what they put in the
magazine. Either that or they just
@^
can't attract any better writers. The
promlem a bad looking magazine faces
is that it attracts bad articles.
There are some really great article
writers in the scene today, and they
are not likley to be tempted to write
for a magazine that appears to be for
delinquents only. There just dosen't
seem to be an intelegent link holding
the magazine together. Articles about
anything are thrown in anywhere. You
can imagine the editors sat one day, a
letter arives "Oooh! an article!
Arn't we lucky!, I dont understand it
too well, but our readers will! Shove
it in!!" @t7 58/100
@t6OVERALL@t5
This magazine takes the "B" out of
banal. It offers nothing new and
presents itself poorly. @t7 37/100
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