Game developer Ubisoft revealed on Thursday that the company experimented with a multiplayer mode when it released the original "Assassin's Creed" video game back in 2007, a report from Gamespot said.
Ubisoft technical director Julien Merceron shared the news during a presentation held at Cité des Sc iences et de l'Industrie in Paris last week. He disclosed that the original game that was shipped in 2007 has a bug that will eventually allow players to discover, at least, part of the multiplayer mode.
"The first game initially was supposed to have a multiplayer mode. In fact there was a bug: while he doesn't know when it was patched, at some point, if a second controller was plugged into the console, a second assassin would appear on screen. The team didn't even test those features as they thought they were disabled, and that's how the bug appeared. Considering that multiplayer has been completely removed from the latest installment of the series, this is certainly interesting, even if I personally feel that the single player experience is basically all that matters in Assassin's Creed games," Dual Shockers said.
Merceron has provided only limited details about the "Assassin's Creed's" multiplayer mode. It can be recalled that the first game that was rolled out in a console platform that features a multiplayer mode was the "Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood."
Ubisoft apparently wants its latest game, the "Assassin's Creed Syndicate," to return to its roots.
"The reason we are doing this is to really focus on the roots of the franchise," creative director Marc-Alexis Cote said as quoted in the report. "That's why all nine studios are focused on delivering this single-player experience."
"Given that Assassin's Creed has long been praised for its innovative multiplayer concepts - and the early games got plenty of backlash - file this under what could have been," Inverse noted.
