For some shameful reason, being a sniper in video games is brilliant fun. Hitman: Sniper knows this, delivering an entire game in which your only interaction with people is shooting them from a very long distance. Overlooking a sprawling Alpine chalet, you’re given 10 minutes to kill a series of targets, all of whom are people traffickers, which assuages the messy moral ambiguity. Your prey and their security guards wander about waiting to be picked off, preferably by putting a bullet into a piece of machinery or plate glass balcony to make it look like an unfortunate accident. Bonus points are awarded if corpses fall somewhere discreet; popping your target near a swimming pool or precipice does the trick. Over successive missions you get to know the location and the pieces of scenery that become lethal when shot at the right moment. All in all, a wonderful guilty pleasure.
