Maybe you spent the last weekend playing Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag. Maybe you recently picked got the game for a next-gen console, or for PC. Or maybe Thanksgiving weekend finally provided enough downtime to really dig in. Here are a couple of things you might not know how to do.
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag is a beautiful-looking game. Or, well, it's a beautiful-looking game when it isn't covering the screen with blips, bleeps and blops of UI information and heads-up-display data. Is all that stuff really necessary? Nah.
Most video game glitches and bugs make it pretty clear they're a bug. You'll get flashing colours, or breaking objects, that sort of stuff. This Assassin's Creed IV hiccup, on the other hand, could be a bug. Or...it could also be the end of days.
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag had a lot of making up to do. I thought the previous game in the series, Assassin's Creed III, was a resounding disappointment. I've already weighed in on the new, pirate-themed Black Flag: It's pretty good. But for those who felt burnt by the last game, a more thorough comparison may be …
It must be awfully tricky making a game run on both current-and next-gen systems, taking advantage of the power of new consoles while keeping things running on the old ones. With Assassin's Creed IV, one of the highest profile cross-gen games around, it sounds like the current-gen side of things was, perhaps…
It's something a lot of us had been hoping for, if not downright expecting: An Assassin's Creed game set not in an iconic historical era, but entirely in the present day. Sounds like it's not going to happen anytime soon.
Assassin's Creed IV isn't just a pirate adventure, and it doesn't just take place on the high seas. See, there's also a fictional present-day bit that takes place in a Montreal game development studio that makes Assassin's Creed games. They're basically a more sinister, fictional version of the game's actual developer, …
Martin Deschambault is a senior concept artist at Ubisoft Montreal. The last time we gave him his own feature on Fine Art was for
Ubisoft is dropping its Uplay Passport online pass program for all future games. And it will effectively remove it from the just-released Assassin's Creed IV by providing the passes for free to all ACIV gamers, whether they get the game new or used.
The fun, rich single-player campaign
Apparently it's not just time and history that evolves in the Assassin's Creed games, but the NPCs' artificial intelligence too, as YouTuber cchrist1000 sadly experienced during his ACIV session.
Assassin's Creed IV, like most other big games from Ubisoft, is coming later on PC. You'd think they'd have sorted this out by now. Ungh. So the question is, if you're impatient, will the fancier visuals of the PC edition make it worth waiting nearly a month for if you already own a 360, PS3 or Wii U?
The big pirate adventure Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag is out today for PlayStation 3, Wii U and Xbox 360. But in a couple of weeks, it'll be out on next-gen consoles and PC. I played through the entire game on PlayStation 3 (and I liked it
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag is a vast game. Edward Kenway's groovy pirate adventure will likely devour the free time of more than a few history buffs over the next few weeks. But while all pirates sail the same seas, not all of them are as smart about it.
The loading screen is always the same in Assassin's Creed. Your character stands, clad in the robes of his people, armed to the teeth and surrounded by empty space. A desaturated digital landscape fades into the distance and out of sight. You press the thumbstick forward, and he begins to jog. What's left to do but…
And you thought people could only be bothered making replicas of Assassin's Creed's pointy
FINALLY. Long have I waited for Man At Arms to make the iconic hidden wristblade from Assassin's Creed, better known as one of the raddest weapons in video game history. Now he has, and he has not disappointed.
The Wii U Won't Be Getting Assassin's Creed IV DLC. Yesterday, Ubisoft detailed the downloadable add-ons coming Assassin's Creed IV, among which is a cool-sounding standalone adventure that casts the player as an escaped slave
A while back, Ubisoft said that Assassin’s Creed IV would have an add-on campaign focused on Adewale, the former slave
In 22 days' time, we'll know what's really up with the next Assassin's Creed. We'll know if all of those trailers and videos Ubisoft has been pumping out for AC IV: Black Flag—13 of them!—have been the oozing confidence of a team that knows they've made a great game or have been the sprayed misdirection of a marketing…
While it's easy to get carried away and think you'll be spending your entire Assassin's Creed IV experience walking planks and punching sharks, remember: there'll be near-future shenanigans going on as well.
The PC version of Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag will come out on November 19. That's right in between the PS4 and Xbox One versions, which will launch alongside their respective consoles on November 15 and 22. PS3, 360 and Wii U versions come out on October 29.
