Otherwise, the sneaking and stealth mechanics are as good as they’ve ever been-so they’re still mediocre at best, and that’s being generous. The story behind Edward’s rise to piratical infamy isn’t exactly riveting, nor is the modern day stuff about an anonymous Abstergo employee taking over from Desmond Miles’ original saga.

That’s okay though-it turns out that he was a bad Assassin who was about to join the Templarzzzzzz…Īh! Sorry, I just fell asleep remembering it. One of his first acts under player control is murdering an Assassin and pilfering his clothes. Rubbing shoulders with the likes of Blackbeard and Captain Kidd, he’s a less heroic sort than previous protagonists were-and given that they’ve generally been a line of unrepentant murderers from start to finish, this is quite an impressive feat. The answer was obvious, really – just drop some pirates into the mix and let everyone start stabbing people on the high seas with those famous hidden blades!Īs a result, this time around it’s all about the fearsome pirate Captain Edward Kenway and his quest to obtain mounds upon mounds of illicit booty. How could Kenway possibly fail to see it?Īfter the intensely disappointing Assassin’s Creed III, it seems like Ubisoft went back to the drawing board and had a little think about how to make the series appealing to its fanbase once more.

WTF I spotted that revelation about Captain Kidd right off the bat. LOW Pointlessly tailing some cretin across the map for the billionth time. HIGH Cresting the waves in a storm whilst laying siege to a fortress with mortar fire.

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