While it introduces a new historical protagonist, its modern-day story continues the overarching plot, particularly the arc that started in Assassin's Creed III. Initially motivated by greed, Edward finds himself at odds with both the Templars and the Assassins, who are both pursuing a mysterious man known as the Sage in order to gain access to the secret technology of the First Civilization.Īssassin's Creed IV: Black Flag is the sixth major installment in the series. Through a series of events Edward assumes the identity of a rogue member of the Assassins reporting to Laureano Torres, the Governor of Cuba and also the Grand Master of the Templars. The unnamed protagonist is hired by the company to connect to the life of Edward Kenway, a Welsh privateer living in the eighteenth century. It's more of a minor irritant now.Abstergo Industries - modern-day front for the organization of the Templars - has opened an entertainment subsidiary in Montreal, Quebec, using advanced technology that allows reliving fragments from the lives of people from the past. It's a Uplay code rather than a Steam code, so you will need a Uplay account and installation, however - though the days of Uplay being quite such a gigantic pain in the bottom are long past. Conspiracies and Skinner boxes and Ubimaps - but even that latter makes a lot more sense when it's a seachart rather than a small amount of land littered with magic icons.Īll free from now until December 18, anyway. It is an Assassin's Creed game, after all. Hell, even protagonist Edward Kenway, a good ole' Welsh lad, seems to enjoy himself significantly more than does most any other AssCreed protagonist. The open ocean, involving ships to battle, board and kidnap, forts to raze and all manner of treasure to seek, had more than a little Sid Meier's Pirates! to it, albeit through a third-person action prism, and it was a real - aha! - sea-change from the routine roof-running and conspiracyballs of its predecessor games. A boat can't sneak or climb up a chimney, see).
Last week, Ubisoft were giving away the tragically de-Steamed RTS World in Conflict, and, as we promised then, here's your nudge about this week's Festivus freebie.Īssassin's Creed IV: Black Flag is also known as 'the one with pirates', aka 'the first one without bloody Desmond', aka 'the one were they set the series right after getting it wrong with AC3', aka 'why haven't they made another one about seafaring yet?' (The latter question, I speculate, is probably something to do with boats being somewhat off-brand. That's right: an Asscreed I dig enough to voluntarily load up Uplay. I like the boat-centric Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag so much that I just went and added it to Uplay even though I already own it Steam.
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