Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag Review

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World pirate has always been very intriguing, so it's not hard to realize why it was chosen as the backdrop for the newest action / adventure produced by Ubisoft. Corsair romantic principles fit perfectly solipsistic ideology of Assassins ("nothing is true, everything is permitted"), while a pirate's life is in about the same activities they undertook any hardcore fan in the previous game.

If you are not familiar with the events of the series, do not worry - so-frame story and the characters of virtual reality concerns us. General knowledge about the overall story always helps, but they are not necessary for understanding the action of Black Flag.

Incidentally, I was never a fan of story-frame AC series, for which I enjoyed to some extent the reduction from the Animus's segments.

In the "real" world, the player plays the newest employee of Abstergo Entertainment, and the first task is to explore the life of Edward Kenway father (or grandfather) protagonist of Assassin's Creed III pretext study for a possible video game produced by the corporation.

Edward is a freelance tilts anarchic Wales who's fated to kill an assassin (thankfully traitor) and takes over identity to infiltrate a type Illuminati conspiracy, the series has become cliche.

Among the historical characters included, the best known is undoubtedly Edward Teach, alias Blackbeard, on which chronicled agree only that it was ridiculously hard to kill.

Because the story "gave page" roles secondary characters come into sharper focus in relation to the protagonist. That and, of course, that there are no awkward moments those easy, like you've had a fight with the new pope.

When not "working", that the quest principal, Edward search for treasures from the rumors he hears the taverns, improves equipment and armor, murders, bombing and captures officers, forts and ships, as appropriate, personal property at the helm of the ship, Jackdaw, or expands its chain of shops and supplies the obligatory pirate island.

Undoubtedly, Black Flag enjoys a vast world filled to the brim with predatory activities that will tempt you to abandon, at least temporarily, the symbol farther away the main story.

Sometimes arsenal of hobbies that we put it game available is dizzyingly high, but I dare say it's more engaging and interactive than it seemed time in his skin Connor, particularly during approaches to craft that we fight.

Once you are down, the enemy ships can be destroyed for a small amount of resources or is caught in a wrestling crew remained alive (in the short period in which harpoons tragic "victim" into Jackdaw, we can access some guns side cleaning crew before the actual fight).

After fulfilling a number of conditions, the crew remained surrenders and can destroy the ship to repair it on our own, add a fleet to make money transporting goods between international ports or we simply to loot goods to sell to traders virtually any game hub.

I must stress that the naval battle is by far the most spectacular single-player element found in both the atmosphere and the tactics that optimize chances before a superior equipped vessels.

Magin you a brutal storm, the crew sails stretching, preparing guns and courageous songs seamanship, while a strobe of lightning fills an enemy galley driven by fierce intention to transform us into a smoldering Swiss cheese boards.

Even after it establishes obsolete sense of repetition, if all you coming to test a row of cannons on the Spanish fleet before hitting the shore.

And given the cost curve for improving swords, guns or ship, naval battles are one of the most effective ways to raise the necessary funds.

When, finally, back to "sequences" memory making up campaign "drama" of Black Flag, we encounter two fresh air vents that needed some time series.

I mean the level of difficulty, first, and then the structure of the story. There are, as before, some secondary endpoints for those pursuing 100% synchronization and colander play a little more important than in previous games in the campaign.

Fortunately, abundant vegetation and architecture allowed a little freer environment provides plenty of hiding places Caribbean, and alarms can be sabotaged to prevent premature death.

The story is also noticeably clingy. Edward Kenway's easier to follow, discovers a conspiracy that has clearer objectives and is easier to empathize with the characters involved.

In this stage of po[CENSORED]r culture, it would be madness to say that we used to antiheroes and empires abusing their colonies, so it's understandable Utopian state to aspiring actors and pirates historians integrated campaign - Calico Jack Anne Bonny, Blackbeard and his mentor, Hornigold.

AC's typical elements - exploring the map of highs and landings in haystacks - punctuation will be familiar to fans of the series already hyper during the adventure, but what is new are landscapes.

Horizons adorned with vegetation vibrant are only one layer of the plurality of forms that describe the scenography and if look at Assassin's Creed excelled even when open-world mean five side quests repeated ad nauseaum few minarets in that you jump, that was architecture.

Even if cities do not have the complexity of imperial structures in previous games, the world seems more organic and varied Black Flag.

Multiplayer will come standard format similar titles, but the execution is exemplary. The most po[CENSORED]r game modes - Manhunt (essentially a hide-and-seek in which two teams alternated the roles of hunter and prey) and Domination remained headlining, and if you have inclinations cooperative, you too can manifest Wolfpack mode.

Game Lab allows players to create different game modes altering variables, the most po[CENSORED]r being promoted in the community.

It's an interesting idea, but creativity is unfortunately limited to alteration of numerical values, which drops several occasions with great potential to revolutionize the market "shelf" (the creator of the content of MMO Neverwinter is an example good enough What could have made the Game Lab that deserves its name).

Each match Abstergo rewards with experience and credits. And once at certain levels, unlock skills that help us in matches. There are slots for weapons, poisons, defensive skills and a kind of safety net if they die many times in a row meant to strike the balance.

Nothing new under the sun, but as Console Servers for The Last of Us and Uncharted 3 are filled to overflowing with people who hunt at any time of day or night (especially since multiplayer latter became freeware), ready to repeat indefinitely until a handful of maps are maximum and reset everything for a prestige tag, so it is with fans of Assassin's Creed.

Briz-breeze sites with which you can customize outfits, titles and challenge sites imitating practical pattern of Call of Duty, but it should be noted that the optimization and technical efficiency allows latencies more than decent in terms of reduced bandwidth, which is always a cue ball.

If for any reason a player decides to leave the game, there are enough people ready to take its place. I guess that's the big advantage of playing something that is fashionable, but Black Flag's undoubtedly one of the games multiplayer decisive nudge in order to justify the purchase.

Hundreds of hours of multiplayer oriented around stealth's comments and tactics, accompanied by a campaign AAA a dozen (and probably the best in the series of Assassin's Creed II here) and a couple of sidequest sites and open exploration of an exotic environment where you want to enjoy all the crafts Ubisoft.

If we observe elements with "studio composed of people of different ethnicities and religions" a compound of formula AC, we see the amount of seasoning techniques encountered in open-world games.

Of dependency / reward matrix puzzles, and minigame Raven's are just three fireworks in a panoply of tools that gamers know them very well. But where AC IV does not innovate by mechanical manages to seduce the atmosphere.

The verdict wallet all experiments the open world with which we got used Ubisoft tested gameplay elements that converge into a fairly developed and thick. Buy it without remorse.