Apparently being a seasoned pirate shares many of the same skill sets. You’ll need to suspend your disbelief on how Edward is suddenly imbued with all the skills and inherent abilities of a professional Assassin. After a brief chase, Edward kills this Assassin and steals his clothes and mission orders. We meet up with Kenway in the opening prologue where, after a brief ship battle, he finds himself marooned on an island with an Assassin. You are now conducting research on a new historical figure Edward Kenway. In fact, the only game to be successfully marketed so far was Assassin’s Creed Liberation (another meta-reference to the PlayStation Vita game that launched in 2012). There is a rich tapestry of ancestral memories ripe for possible game ideas, but as you start hacking into your coworkers’ computers, you’ll realize that most are unsuitable for consumer gameplay. You play as the latest new hire, destined to spend countless hours in your cubicle tapping into the memories of Subject 17 – aka Desmond Miles, whose body was recovered after the tragic events at the end of Assassin’s Creed III. Abstergo has gone from a shady corporate villain to a major public company that has joined forces with Ubisoft (yes, this gets pretty Meta) to create entertainment products from harvested DNA memories. The centuries-long battle between Assassin’s and Templars is a mere footnote in the historical Animus archives. Sure, there are Assassins and Templars, cool hooded cloaks, fancy parkour moves, swords, pistols, and even that blue/red/gold instinctual hunter vision mode, but this latest installment in the series has much more up its sleeve than just a pair of deadly wrist blades.Īssassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag uses the death of Desmond Miles to essentially reboot the series, or at least take a serious detour. It’s ironic that the best Assassin’s Creed game in the series to date has the least to do with the core premise upon which the franchise was founded.
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