At first, the online slot Hitman, with Microgaming software, seems to have all of the good and none of the bad of video shoot ‘em ups. The symbols get daft fairly quickly and that pretentious pseudo-choir music so beloved of pub fruitie/video games is enough to send the player insane. Even the animation is dopey. When the WILD bald titular character appears, an animation opens up with our anti-hero ... opening a door, switching off a light and leaving an empty room. Way-hey and away we go!

But then I triggered the bonus round in which our Agent 47 is able to choose himself a target (nonsensical choral singing shifts key) for terminating with extreme prejudice, as hired by the International Contract Agency Headquarters. There are five potential kills and they each have a bounty of various amounts on their heads and, yes, there's some racial profiling going on here. As a child of the now-defunct Cold War, I went with Soviet-looking dude Mark Purayah II, who was going to kill the Secretary of the Interior (though what Dirk Kempthorne ever did to him is apparently “need to know”) and scored a cool 25,200 for blasting his brains (off-screen) with a rifle.

Pretty good bonus round, that.