Here are my Metro News reviews for the week of Jan. 26th
American Sniper Enhanced Edition
By Chris Kyle
Kindle/iBooks
Three Stars
Conversational video interviews and pop-up gun profiles only add to this book’s extraordinary access to Navy Seal techniques, yet it’s Kyle’s friendly story-telling that stands-out as he captures the way his drive to conflict with prejudice creates vulnerabilities for himself at home and his family. It’s compelling growth from someone with a very polarized, black-and-white, “friendlies” vs. “savages” world view.
WYNI – Breastfeeding Information
iPhone/Android
Free
This breastfeeding guide from the University of Windsor Faculty of Nursing packages feeding and diaper trackers with useful techniques and medical information enhanced with clear diagrams and streaming demonstration videos
MSN Food & Drink
iPhone/iPad/Windows Phone
Free
Using Microsoft’s organizational tiles, this app consolidates recipes, news articles, chef profiles, and instructional videos from the web into a collection that’s big on selection, but low on instructional steps.
Funny Or Die Weather
iPhone/iPad
Free
Into each life, some mocking quips and crass jokes must fall. This forecast app packages useful weather feeds with daily rude jokes from the Funny or Die web comedy team.
The Swapper
PS3/PS4/Wii U/PC
Rating: Everyone 10+
Five Stars
When you carry a back-up supply of cloned bodies, throwing yourself into harm’s way only to swap out before you die becomes a clever way to bypass chasms, security beams, and other hazardous surprises. Amid a haunting atmosphere of space isolation, the crumpled bodies do take their toll, but it’s the extraordinary discussion hidden within of souls and minds and the unusual conflict that can arise between the will to survive and the will to live that makes this puzzler worth talking about as much as it is worth playing.
