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Live #4 by DreamDealers



                        b y   J e d i / N a r c o s i s


     Upon slapping the first disk of two into the drive you realise that it's a
 dos loader, but don't worry because all loading is reasonably nippy (even more
 so if you have an hard drive  like  me!)  Within 30 seconds the mag has loaded
 and a few presentation screens  fade  in  and  out. The pics, particularly the
 second one (which was in the  Party III  pic  comp  if  I'm not mistaken), are
 extemely well drawn.

     Soon you are confronted by the menu. Most diskmags of this size would have
 at least 3 pages of articles to read, however Live #4 only has one menu. So it
 would appear that they don't  seem  to  have  much  support at the moment. The
 actual menu is quite nicely drawn and  the  main music which accompanies it is
 nice in a bland `diskmag music' kinda way.{
     Again, a point where  Live  falls  down  is  that  it  doesn't have enough
 `functions', just the basic left/right,  volume,  music requester to return to
 menu. A nice feature is the  change  design  option. This allows you to switch
 between 2 border and icon designs, both of the ones included are ok.

     Now onto the important  bit  -  articles!  Well,  the  articles are pretty
 average really with only a small selection of topics covered, nothing like the
 wide range of subjects the 3 main UK scene mags get through!

     Generally the articles are readable with  only the odd spelling mistake or
 badly worded sentences creeping in,  although  certain articles appear to have
 lots of literacy mistakes.

      Overall though the editing is of a high standard (and they are French, so
 their English is much better than my French  is!) The last thing in the mag is
 the gallery. Most of the pictures seem to  be  taken from the Party III, a few
 portrait pics of scene guys seem  to  have  been `doctored' slightly. Check it
 out for yourself to see what I mean!

     Right then, here's the roundup:

{
                              Graphics        8/10
                              Music           7/10
                              Support         5/10
                              Editing         7/10
                              Ease of use     8/10

                              OVERALL         7/10


                     Good points:    Well edited
                                     Smart GFX
                                     Nice main soundtrack
                                     Nice and speedy

                     Bad points:     Crap support
                                     Lack of functions
                                     The soundtracks on disk 2 are shit}