Putting to bed speculation on the matter once for all, big wig Keiji Inafune has revealed that 2 will include modes - despite reports to the contrary.

"We're at a point in game history that you need to have some form of multiplayer component in a game," Inafune told attendees at last week's Captivate event, according to Eurogamer.net.

"Single-player alone is not going to cut it. So rest assured we are going to put multiplayer in the game, but I can't go into specifics about what type of multiplayer as that directly relates to some of the game systems that we don't want to talk about at this event. It will be multiplayer, so keep that in mind."

We'll have more for you on very soon.

By Luke Guttridge