Developer Starbreeze originally planned for The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena to have more in common with Bioshock than Call of Duty 4. That is, they didn"t intend to put in multplayer. However, it seems that Vin Diesel had other ideas.

"We were well into production on the game and I begged for an online component for this, and everyone rose to the occasion and created something really compelling," Diesel told X-Play.

After all, what Vin Diesel wants, Vin Diesel gets.