For instance, fancy adding a touch of showmanship to your murder-ising? Pressing the action button will let you perform context-sensitive actions in certain situations - such as rolls or vaults - so combine them with executions for stylish kill bonus scores. Environmental takedowns, like ricocheting stray bullets off a nearby steel plate into the back of a foe’s head will score highly too. Luck is as essential as skill. A quick caveat though: don’t expect to rip through this game even if you’re a hardened shooter fan with the reactions of a killer cyborg from space year 4312. A knack for blasting is vitally important, granted - but the real key to glory is figuring out the layout of levels, where bonuses are located, where enemies lurk and the like. Granted, that might not sound particularly fun, but believe us when we tell you there’s something positively gripping about putting together a barn-storming run and smashing a pal’s record on insane difficulty.

You’d be amazed how quickly your scores soar after just a few sneaky dry runs. Though there are loads of different game modes, Sprint is our de facto choice, an A-B blitzkrieg with no set time limit in an attempt to rack up the highest possible points total. We choose the Alcatraz-like prison level, kicking off the proceedings in the basement with a couple of choice headshots to kick things off and get our Kill Bar moving along nicely. “Last bullet!” the commentator announces as we pick off a grunt with the… very… last… clip.