From its beginning in a squalid flat in East London to its eventual end in a large, multi-million pound manor in London's affluent NW3, you made American Psycho's Patrick Bateman look like a pussy cat in fluffy clothing as you manoeuvred through the 1980s Zeitgeist.
Over the course of the game, you'll manoeuvre your sub around a map, attempting to hunt down and destroy your opponents before they get the chance to dispatch you to the cold, briny depths.
In another, you would manoeuvre yourself around the congressional chamber in order to prevent procrastinating legislators from going home early when they still have a budget deficit to fix.
But the wheel of Fortuna comes to bear on a longer-term lie, the bagatelle of shifting circumstance will move situations around it, create gaps for you to manoeuvre.
You can never just aim, shoot, move onto the next guy – your ability is measured not in how many bodies you rack up, or waves of enemies you defeat, but how effectively you out-manoeuvre single opponents.
He told the Press Association: "When you go into a vertical manoeuvre you tend to go out of it in the same height you go in, but it's easy to come out of it slightly lower - you don't have to take much of a misjudgement to do that.
"Money is a wonderful thing because it gives you room to manoeuvre and breathing space to choose whatever you like professionally, but, yeah… I'm very lucky… yeah.
So if you choose to haul yourself up on to the bars, pour yourself a glass of chardonnay and start reading Fifty Shades of Grey – or any other book, but I believe it's now the law there be a mention of this volume every day in every paper, so there it is – you will be marked down, however neatly you execute the manoeuvre.
'However, to do a successful IVA you need to have either a large asset which can be sold to pay something towards your debts, which is rare, or, more likely, you have to be in a job providing you with a sufficient income flow to give you room to manoeuvre on a monthly basis.
