** Maggie pages review / 215 words **
Illness

80%
Entertainment (Demo)
Falcon only, 4Mb, RGB required
Author: Escape

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This demo was released at the Polish Quast Party last August where 
it was a distinctive entry in a very packed competition.

Escape always have had a reputation for doing their own thing 
which they established at the 1997 Siliconvention with their 
enigmatically swirly Sili-con-Carne demo. This latest release 
confirms their idiosyncratic approach to "design".

Conventional demos take a soundtrack and lead a parade of effects 
down it. Some very good demos synchronise the changeover and 
progression of effects in time with the music. A very select few 
are able to create a "mood" with an adept combination of the audio 
and visual parts, fusing the separate pieces to make a "whole" 
greater than the sum of the individual parts - "Illness" does 
exactly this!

The execution of this demo is slick. There is no overt technical 
wizardry, of the sort found in Sonoluminescenz, no fancy logos or 
texture-mapped 3D, indeed, without the soundtrack, it would be 
very hard to tell just what is going on with the "Jackson Pollock 
on a high" inspired visuals.

Somehow the cleverly blended and mood-optimised soundtrack grabs 
you, and you'll keep coming back for more.

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Chris Holland
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