The first Hotline Miami was a neon bullet fired from a gun that every time it went off, flicked your primal cortex and whispered "Do it again, but faster". It became a cult sensation, a supremely polished top-down shooter where thrills and kills were one and the same - it's thumping trancelike soundtrack creating quite the symbiotic relationship between player and character. Come time for part two, and developers Dennaton have expanded on everything that made the initial rush such a memorable one. The soundtrack sees original artists pulling out all the stops to deliver songs that are louder and faster than ever, melee weapons are reigned in to force you into staying on the move, and the story sees every possible ramification of a mass killer getting in the headlines played out. Not since 2011's Bastion has a game had such an intrinsic fusion of sound design and lightning-fast mechanics, and Wrong Number manages to use it to spectacular effect, outshining the original in every regard.
