9 Video Games That Let You Hilariously Troll Other Players

8. Assassin's Creed III's Cat-And-Mouse Online

Assassin's Creed
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Although they've since moved away from including multiplayer in new sequels, for a time Assassin's Creed had a surprisingly compelling online suite. Won or lost on how well players could game the system, every opponent in a match was given the appearance of a random NPC, tasked with fitting into a crowd and scoping out potential enemies to meet their hidden blade.

The genius was that the mode forced players to think - and play - as if they were just a random NPC. That meant following predictable patterns and essentially acting as much like a robot as possible.

The system was a brilliant way to completely mess with another player's head, as suspicious movements could attract enemies towards a perfectly timed ambush.

Likewise, changing your playstyle to mimc the A.I brought plenty of laughs, with players trying to hide in plain sight by pretending to glitch out and follow the same dumb patterns as random NPCs often do, fooling enemies into killing someone entirely innocent.

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