“I liked it, a lot. First-person shooter games can get a bit boring, but you’ve got enough story in there to keep the player interested. The character arc surprised me. You don’t normally see that in a game like this. How does it end, though? Like if you get all the bad guys and manage to evade the police?”

Mason looked back at the screen to watch the current player get taken out by one of the criminals he’d been pursuing. “He doesn’t,” Mason said.

“He ...