[color=1500ff]Assassins Creed 4 Black Flag Review[/color]
[color=fcff00]by Haxxident [/color]
Yo ho, yo ho, pirates of the ass creed here I go?
What is up Escapist and other readers, Haxxident here.
I haven?t played an assassins creed game since Brotherhood which was, Assassins Creed 2 1/2? And I only played the online of that, so a technical technicality is I haven?t played through an entire single player since the first! And strangely this one has little to do with the creed of assassins and is more about pirates of the Caribbean, you got to wonder if this was meant to be an assassin?s creed game?
Lucky for ubisoft it is, and unlike the majority of games out at the moment it isn?t a copy or a clone with slight differences, we have to many FPS, fifa?s, zombie games etc its fun to play something different, while the free running assinations have been done 6 or so times before, the pirates life is new and definitely the life for me.
Starting out as someone who scrubs the poop deck?. Hehe, poop! You come into contact with your first assassin, and you chase him down and kill him, not bad for a ship janitor, he was wounded though so maybe we can give him a break.
The game has so much to offer and to complete it to 100% will kill many hours of your free time, the first complete series of challenges I completed was the Templar Hunt, basically we need four keys to gain a new outfit, and I am not going to pillage and plunder without looking decent! No sir. Each key involved four missions, they tend to be the same though, tail, eavesdrop or kill, as good as this game is basically all missions involve one of those three.
Land, sea and air? Well not so much air.
And the sea missions only involve one thing, killing ships! Considering the sea voyages are just a time sink between missions, I can easily spend hours at sea, harpooning jaws, slaying the free Willy and diving down to ship wrecks to name a few. But one of the best to watch, yet simple, is the storms. I love the high waves, tornadoes and every once in a while rouge wave! I was in battle with 4 ships near the beginning of my gameplay, not many upgrades so each ship was capable of sinking me, when out of nowhere a rogue wave smashes into us (tip, sail into them) and destroyed my enemies, felt like Poseidon fancied me a bit.
As far as recent gaming hits go, this one stands out among them due to the amount of activates to do in game, to name a few:
- Templar Hunt
- Assassination contracts
- Hunting
- Defeating outposts
- Collecting chests
- Collecting artefacts
- Collecting music
- Hacking computers.
- Raiding ships
- Robbing warehouses
- Checkers
The story which is very engaging, I found myself wanting to get to the next objective quick to find out what happens next and the characters, the game ended in a well thought out way also, something some game developers could learn from, looking at you Bioware!
Adding onto that, a multilayer option that is also different from any other out there, you hunt me, while I hunt them and they hunt you! A murderous triangle of death. The game modes are simple enough with a manhunt (team death match), death match (match to the death) and capture the flag (get it!). The most pleasing part of online for me is watching my pursuers kill a civilian (makes me sound like a psychopath) Butt! When they can?t find you, you pimp slap them upside the head, run away, hide in another group and it happens again, you can almost feel their annoyance and it pleases me!
If you have tried and not liked the assassins creeds of the past, give this one a try, I played the first all the way though, started the second and brotherhood and never got passed an hours gameplay, but this is worth your time, ever watched pirates of the Caribbean and wanted to be Captain? Well? now you can.
