Ubisoft producer Jade Raymond audibly gasped in astonishment as a dispatched guard in the Assassin's Creed demo inexplicably hung in mid air after falling from a rooftop. She must also have been mightily uncomfortable as Altair jumped into a cart full of hay that didn't register his impact and knocked jugs from the arms of women in the crowd without seemingly touching them. What was going on? Let's find out.

Ubisoft's Assassin's Creed press conference demonstration didn't go quite as planned yesterday at the E3 Business & Media Summit in Santa Monica, California. The game appeared bug-ridden and unfinished, with a dead body clearly levitating alongside other apparent glitches with crowd repetition and collision detection.

It wasn't Ubisoft's fault, though, reports CVG. The site has learnt that the Assassin's Creed demo was rushed out because Bungie didn't have the time to piece together a single-player Halo 3 press exhibition.

Jade Redmond and her on-stage partner duly had to act in haste to prepare something for the baying press in order to fill time, apparently at the request of Microsoft who stepped with their mighty boot in order to save the skin of the Halo 3 developer.

mistermostyn via gamersquad.com »