Piano wire or poison? ‘Hitman 3’ is some of the darkest fun in gaming

The ‘Macgyver of death’ returns to the latest consoles for his third outing, putting players in the shoes of the bald assassin. — IO Interactive/dpa

Way back in the year 2000, long before we knew what “social distancing” meant, a game about a lab-designed contract killer took the console world by storm.

Two decades later, the world has changed but the winning formula of Hitman has not, and the game’s bald-headed killer is still running about disposing of unwanted individuals as inconspicuously as possible in ever-changing scenarios.