If you like mysteries and you like puzzles, Missing is the game for you. It spins a really creepy tale of a journalist and his girlfriend gone missing whilst investigating a potential serial killer.
There are a lot of puzzles that must be solved. Some are quite hard. You are rewarded with a little more info, usually in the form of a video, when you solve a puzzle.
The designers made this as real as possible, with authentic-looking web sites that you are directed to, as well as realistic looking e-mails that you receive. You really become immersed in this game.
Plus - it's only $19.99 and will run on older systems (if you have one).
Support the war or not, you'll still enjoy this book. The author chronicles his time spent embedded with a Marine Corps Recon unit in the early days of the war.
The book reads like a diary, end-to-end small unit action, and captures all the rough edges of the grunts as well as their occasional gestures of humanity.
No punches are pulled, except that the more incompetent characters are only identified by their nicknames. This isn't great literature, but it's not meant to be. It IS great frontline reporting.
But if you're the type of person whose jaw drops at the ever-increasing public display of bad punctuation, you'll feel right at home with Lynne Truss's great little tome. If you're one of the great unwashed who neither properly grasps punctuation nor understands why anyone else would, look elsewhere.
To her everlasting credit, Ms. Truss is offended by such punctuational travesties as a bus ad for the Hugh Grant film, "Two Weeks Notice." And well she should be. The correct forumulation, of course, is "Two Weeks' Notice."
Eats, Shoots & Leaves is full of such observations, rendered in an easily-read, witty style. Truss's observations on… Read more
