Here’s what’s up with Assassin’s Creed: Unity’s Helix menu

That screen up there is what greets players when they start Unity, developer Ubisoft’s 2014 installment of the popular Assassin’s Creed franchise for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC. An early version of the image leaked during beta testing and spawned rumors and speculation that each tab represented a separate, open-world area for gamers to explore.

And that would be incredibly cool (even if that much more code might have just added to Unity’s technical problems at launch), but sadly, that’s not the case. The screen is just a dummy menu that Ubisoft inserted to introduce the Helix program, the evil Abstergo Corporation’s gaming console for interactive and heavily edited history.