Hitman Go is a board game-styled mobile version of everyone's favourite bald, barcoded master assassin that has about as much in common with its trademark stealth action as Clue does with real detective work or Carcassonne with medieval city planning. That it exists at all is honestly something of a surprise, and that it pulls it off, a pleasure. Both, however, pale next to its true achievement: feeling enough like a Hitman game to wear its name with honour. It's not, however, a board game to the point of being static or simplistic. It's turn based – first you go and then all the enemies – but quickly ramps up from static enemies to trickier obstacles like patrollers and knife-wielders and guards with dogs capable of directly chasing 47 around the map, and those maps stepping up in complexity to add locked doors and keys, trapdoors that act as teleporters, disguises that allow 47 to walk past one enemy type with complete impunity, and throwable objects that can draw a big cluster of guards into exactly where you want them. Or, of course, exactly where you don't. Actually, very often that. This being a puzzle game, it's not possible to simply shoot obstacles most of the time, though 47 can occasionally pick up a sniper rifle or pair of Silverballer pistols to take out a single target (or multiple, if they're on the same point) and clear adjacent squares respectively. There are several good actual-stealth games for Android (notably Republique) that offer something closer to the Hitman experience even without 47 himself around. Hitman GO, however, is a fine, challenging puzzle game that offers both a new way of plying his dark trade and many levels on which to do it. Avoid if trial and error rubs you the wrong way or the boardgame aesthetic doesn't charm, but this is otherwise a fine mobile cousin to fill the gap until 47's next real hit.
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