Change language. Install Steam. Your Store Your Store. Categories Categories. Special Sections. Player Support. Community Hub. Ubisoft Montreal. The year is Pirates rule the Caribbean and have established their own lawless Republic where corruption, greediness and cruelty are commonplace. Among these outlaws is a brash young captain named Edward Kenway. Recent Reviews:. All Reviews:. Popular user-defined tags for this product:.
Is this game relevant to you? Sign In or Open in Steam. Languages :. English and 15 more. Edward Kenway Into this world sails a young, cocky, and fearsome captain named Edward Kenway. Select Version Digital. Expand Expand. Follow Assassin's Creed on:. You May Also Like. However, the crew members are also expected to die in the game while braving storms and boarding enemy ships, forcing Edward to continuously recruit more members.
The game also has six different enemy archetypes at sea that all behave in vastly different ways and require the player to have different upgrades to deal with them. Instead of Desmond Miles, the modern day portion is centered around the players themselves, who act as Abstergo Entertainment research analysts that are reliving the memories of Edward Kenway.
The Animus no longer constrains the players with its barriers whenever they attempt to interact with an environment the ancestor has not; instead tougher enemy ships will block the way, with the only way around them being to actually explore the world, and finding things that can go towards upgrading the Jackdaw.
In addition, players are able to connect with other players in the modern day, which will allow them to interact and share information with each other. The notoriety system featured in previous Assassin's Creed games was remade in Black Flag , as a "worldwide alert" for a pirate sailing between islands was deemed illogical.
In its place, a system of pirate hunters were introduced, with four tiers of increasingly difficult ships appearing to attack the Jackdaw depending on how many robberies Edward has committed. The new "Horizon" open-world system dynamically creates side missions, such as merchant ships to rob, whales to hunt, or pirates to rescue, dependent on an individual's playing style. Edward will put his hood on when in a restricted zone or in a city, and take it off when on the open seas or as soon as he is incognito.
The multiplayer aspect of Black Flag includes cooperative and competitive multiplayer modes, some of which that are reused from previous games, along with all new maps and new characters. Furthermore, players can create custom game modes alongside default and Game Lab modes and share it to their friends. The project was started with the ulterior motive of locating various Precursor sites and Pieces of Eden. After an attack on the ship he was aboard, Edward found himself stranded on a deserted island with an Assassin.
The man ran off into the jungle, after which Kenway chased him down and killed him. Among his possessions, he found a letter addressed to Duncan Walpole , from the Governor of Cuba, Laureano de Torres y Ayala , promising him a reward for some maps he was carrying. Edward donned Walpole's robes, heard shots in the distance, and proceeded to investigate, leading him to a ship with its crew being held by British soldiers.
Edward killed the soldiers and rescued a merchant named Stede Bonnet , later accompanying him to Havana. Having arrived in Havana, Edward, still posing as Walpole, met with Governor Torres and his associates, hoping to claim his reward.
Edward learned of the existence of the Templar Order and a Precursor site known as the Observatory , with the power of locate and monitor every person on Earth with a vial of blood. According to the old tales, the blood of a Sage is required to enter the Observatory. Afterwards, Edward was inducted in the Templar Order. Edward met with the Templars at the docks in the next morning to meet a Sage named Bartholomew Roberts and escort him to the governor's mansion.
During the journey to Torres' mansion, the group was attacked by Assassins, allowing the Sage to escape. Edward fought the Assassins and managed to capture the Sage. He later claimed his promised reward, but was unhappy with its quantity. Edward decided to free the Sage and find out more about the Observatory, hoping to make more money. However, as he snuck into Torres' mansion, he found his cell empty and scattered with dead bodies.
While investigating the area, Edward was knocked out and identified as an imposter by the Templars. He was taken prisoner and locked up on one of the ships of the Spanish Treasure Fleet. After freeing themselves, the men rescued the fleet's prisoners and stole a brig, which Edward decided to keep afterwards. Following this, the pirate set course for Nassau. After assembling a crew, he met with Edward Thatch and Benjamin Hornigold , who took Edward out to sea to teach him how to plunder ships.
He then met with James Kidd , and devised a plan to rob a plantation. Edward and Thatch set out to acquire a galleon for Nassau's defense. The pirate assassinated its captain, the Templar Julien du Casse , and claimed his vessel for Nassau's defense and his island for himself. A few weeks later, Edward set course for Tulum , looking for Kidd, who was expecting him in the Assassin hideout. Edward freed the Assassins and his crew members.
Edward devised a plan to find Roberts and earn some money by using Torres as bait. He set out to Kingston , where he planned to tail Torres and Laurens Prins , hoping to find the Sage. He found Kidd trying to assassinate both men and stopped him, allowing them to escape. Edward then prepared to assassinate Prins after having promised Kidd he would do so. One of the biggest complaints with recent Assassin's Creed games has been the simple fact that players don't get to play as a member of the Assassin Brotherhood, and with Assassin's Creed Valhalla and Odyssey specifically, even resembling an Assassin can take a pretty intense time investment.
For instance, Valhalla tucks away the Hidden Ones robe, the most Assassin-like garments in the base game, in different corners of the map.
Black Flag set the precedent that players didn't necessarily need to be a real Assassin for the majority of its runtime, relegating Edward Kenway to the role of an overly enthusiastic cosplayer until the endgame. However, it did offer a bounty of customization options for both Edward and his ship the Jackdaw.
Those options allowed players to maintain the look of an Assassin, while also offering options that felt removed from the Assassin Brotherhood. Throughout the game, Edward makes regular contact with the Brotherhood but is apprehensive to join them, pursuing his own selfish desires instead of joining with the Assassin's cause.
Narratively, it reinforces who Edward is as a character, making the unfurling of a pirate flag with the Assassin's logo all the more satisfying at the end of the game. As far as customization goes, though, it allows players to feel like an Assassin without necessarily having to be one. Meanwhile, newer games reinforce that the player isn't an Assassin through contact with the Hidden Ones and their lack of visually distinct robes.
It's open, it features the struggle between Templars and Assassins that players have been longing to return to, and there's a bounty of side activities that help sell the pirate fantasy. All of that, plus it's the best refinement of classic Assassin's Creed mechanics that the series has seen to date.
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