Ymgve at 14:57, 20 June 2007

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"BRUTAL RECALL #8" BY BRUTAL
"BRUTAL RECALL #8" BY BRUTAL
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intro:
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just one of these very normal intros.
nothing to really like, nothing to
really dislike..

code....tch/brutal rating:
gfx.....trax/trc 3 out
music...jch/vibrants of 5.

outfit:
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well, this outfit is coded in a rather
cool way, with lots of extra options
to make your textreading as pleasant
as possible. you can select between 2
different tunes, both of them are
really good and fits well into the
mag. there aren't very much graphics
on the screen and the graphics that
exist are sort of average, just some
borders for the specials/chapters
menues and some sprites moving in the
up/down-border.
the chapters are being loaded with a
fast irq-loader.

code....tch/brutal rating: 4 out of 5
gfx.....tch/brutal
music...tbb/side b,page/deathsector

text:
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this is really this mag's strongest
point! this issue consists of 26 (!)
chapters (although several pieces of
texts, like advertisements and board-
lists, have been splitted to more than
one chapter) and all those different
chapters are always packed with lots
of stuff (lots of news in the news-
section, lots of people voted for the
charts etc.).
they're trying to cover up all the
different parts of the scene (us/euro,
cracker/demogroups), and they have got
some unusual chapters too.

text written by r.c.s./legend and tch/
brutal.. rating: 4.5 out of 5.

complainments:
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some of the boards listed in their
"are you board"-section have been down
for several months (like eagle's nest,
for example). if they really wish to
inform the readers about the boards
and the us-scene, i think they should
try and get some extra editor for
board lists and us news.
and i've never liked to see "video
reviews" in diskmags.. (almost as un-
necessary as "music scene news" that
some mags publish! if you want that,
buy 'melody maker' or some other music
mag instead.)

jewels:
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well, this is obviously a serious mag,
that the editors have spent a lot of
time writing (unlike some not-so-
famous mags from some not-so-famous
groups ... no names!), and it features
lots of texts. if you're interested in
reading mags to keep up with what's
happening in the scene,try to get each
issue of "brutal recall".

OVERALL: 3.8
OVERALL: 3.8

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we're sorry to announce that this was
the only review we could offer you in
this issue!

some really cool demos that we think
you should check out:

* "spiritual dreams" from spirit
(the best demo at the aars party, no
doubt! it would have been #1 if it
was released by a more famous group,
but i hope spirit will climb the
charts now.)

* "dutch breeze" from blackmail
(an amazing gfx/design-demo with
some cool code, too.. the graphics
are so fucking perfect! check out
the first part on side 2, called
"the collection", for example....)

* "the royal scam" from pretzel logic
(after 18 months, their first multi-
load demo was finished!! and their
new one is delayed too..)

and several other demos...

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Ymgve at 14:57, 20 June 2007