SMOOTH OPERATOR

Killing time rather than targets in HITMAN

- Matthew Elliott

Going back to an old game is like waking up on New Year’s Day. You erupt out of bed with fresh drive and purpose. Then you realize it’s March and you’ve spent three months watching the same video about cranial nerve examinations instead of Unity tutorials and the only book you’ve read is about vegetables that look like celebrities.

This is the thought that occurs to me as I try, for the second or third time, to kill a man by flushing his head down the bog. You always go into Hitman predicting a degree of efficiency. You expect to sashay your objectives and escape while your target’s body is still warm. But