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==Gameplay== | ==Gameplay== | ||
===Locations and navigation=== | ===Locations and navigation=== | ||
About 60% of the game will take place on land. Players can explore 50 locations<ref name="cvg">[http://www.computerandvideogames.com/394142/assassins-creed-4-videos-details-new-hero-50-locations-multiplayer/ ''Assassin's Creed 4 videos, details: New hero, 50 locations, multiplayer'']</ref> ranging from fisherman villages, plantations, jungles, forts, islands, Mayan ruins and exotic Coconut Islands. Other activities include hunting, harpooning and exploring underwater environments. The game aims to blend between its land and aquatic experiences seamlessly, to the point where players can simply dive off of his ship, swim to the shore and explore the land.<ref name="gamesradar"/> | About 60% of the game will take place on land. Players can explore 50 locations<ref name="cvg">[http://www.computerandvideogames.com/394142/assassins-creed-4-videos-details-new-hero-50-locations-multiplayer/ ''Assassin's Creed 4 videos, details: New hero, 50 locations, multiplayer'']</ref> ranging from fisherman villages, plantations, jungles, forts, islands, Mayan ruins and exotic Coconut Islands. Other activities include hunting, harpooning and exploring underwater environments. The game aims to blend between its land and aquatic experiences seamlessly, to the point where players can simply dive off of his ship, swim to the shore and explore the land.<ref name="gamesradar"/> Players can dive under the surface to loot under water ship wrecks.<ref name="ivg">[http://www.indianvideogamer.com/features/assassins-creed-4-black-flag-information-blowout/18744]</ref> | ||
===Combat=== | ===Combat=== | ||
''Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag'''s combat has been upgraded to include free aiming. With the previous installments relying on the game's built-in auto aim, in ''Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag'' players will be able to just aim and fire, like in any other third-person shooter.<ref name="gamesradar">[http://www.gamesradar.com/assassins-creed-iv-black-flag-information/ ''Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag - Everything we know'']</ref> | ''Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag'''s combat has been upgraded to include free aiming. With the previous installments relying on the game's built-in auto aim, in ''Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag'' players will be able to just aim and fire, like in any other third-person shooter.<ref name="gamesradar">[http://www.gamesradar.com/assassins-creed-iv-black-flag-information/ ''Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag - Everything we know'']</ref> | ||
[[Dual-wielding]] weapons has been implemented with Edward being able to have four | Aside from hidden blade, Edward can equip four flintock [[firearms|pistols]] , and dual cutlass swords and chain their attacks together. Other weapons include a blow pipe with multiple effect darts and [[rope dart]] <ref name="ivg">[http://www.indianvideogamer.com/features/assassins-creed-4-black-flag-information-blowout/18744]</ref> [[Dual-wielding]] weapons has been implemented with Edward being able to have four pistols and be able to use them all together, chaining up to four gunshots into his normal attacks to take down more enemies.<ref name="gamesradar"/> | ||
Full-on underwater combat system is also developed for ''Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag'' including animals such as sharks.<ref name="gamesradar"/> | Full-on underwater combat system is also developed for ''Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag'' including animals such as sharks and whales.<ref name="gamesradar"/> | ||
===Naval combat=== | ===Naval combat=== | ||
The game will also include naval combat, with 40% of the story taking place in water, which includes numerous side missions.<ref name="gamesradar"/> After checking out a ship with your spyglass (which will give you more information on its cargo and capacity) from the ships crow's nest, players can launch an attack using various scenarios - with players able to simply shoot the opposing captain, board the ship leaping from mast-to-mast and performing an air assassination, or charge into the fray to cut down the foe using sword.<ref name="ign">[http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/03/04/the-dawn-of-assassins-creed-iv-black-flag ''The Dawn of Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag'']</ref> Players will also be able to exploit weather patterns, luring the opposition into less than ideal conditions such as dynamic storms, to their advantage.<ref name="gamesradar"/> | The game will also include naval combat, with 40% of the story taking place in water, which includes numerous side missions.<ref name="gamesradar"/> After checking out a ship with your spyglass (which will give you more information on its cargo and capacity) from the ships crow's nest, players can launch an attack using various scenarios - with players able to simply shoot the opposing captain, board the ship leaping from mast-to-mast and performing an air assassination, or charge into the fray to cut down the foe using sword.<ref name="ign">[http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/03/04/the-dawn-of-assassins-creed-iv-black-flag ''The Dawn of Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag'']</ref> Players will also be able to exploit weather patterns, luring the opposition into less than ideal conditions such as dynamic storms, to their advantage.<ref name="gamesradar"/> Naval combat also features trajectory-based aiming system that requires knowledge of distance and speed of enemy.<ref name="ivg">[http://www.indianvideogamer.com/features/assassins-creed-4-black-flag-information-blowout/18744]</ref> | ||
===Upgradation=== | ===Upgradation=== | ||
Players will also be able to upgrade Edward Kenway's vessel the ''[[Jackdaw]]'' with new weapons and abilities through pillaging, taking over enemy ships and completing missions. | Players will also be able to upgrade Edward Kenway's vessel the ''[[Jackdaw]]'' with new weapons and abilities through pillaging, taking over enemy ships and completing missions.<ref name="gamesradar"/> Weapon upgrades include round shot, heat shot, chain shot, mines, mortar, swivel guns and ram.<ref name="ivg">[http://www.indianvideogamer.com/features/assassins-creed-4-black-flag-information-blowout/18744]</ref> The crew of the ''Jackdaw'' can also be upgraded with new outfits allowing for even more customization.<ref name="gamesradar"/> The game will so have different enemy archetypes at sea that all behave in vastly different ways and require you to have different upgrades to deal with them.<ref name="AC4I">[http://www.gamesradar.com/harpooning-whales-blackbeard-assassins-creed-iv-interview/ Harpooning whales with Blackbeard - Assassin's Creed IV interview']</ref> | ||
===Memories=== | ===Memories=== | ||
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===Other=== | ===Other=== | ||
''Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag'' will include many historical figures such as {{Wiki|Benjamin Hornigold}}, {{Wiki|Calico Jack}}, {{Wiki|Anne Bonny}}, and {{Wiki|Charles Vane}} along with [[Blackbeard]].<ref name="gamesradar"/> | ''Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag'' will include many historical figures such as {{Wiki|Benjamin Hornigold}}, {{Wiki|Calico Jack}}, {{Wiki|Anne Bonny}}, and {{Wiki|Charles Vane}} along with [[Blackbeard]].<ref name="gamesradar"/> The new Horizon open-world system will be packed with sea and underwater activities. The Horizon system dynamically creates side missions, such as merchant ships to rob, whales to hunt or pirates to rescue. Missions are created based on individual playing style.<ref name="ivg">[http://www.indianvideogamer.com/features/assassins-creed-4-black-flag-information-blowout/18744]</ref> | ||
===Multiplayer=== | |||
Ubisoft has not yet told much about the multiplayer. The game will include cooperative and competitive multiplayer.<ref name="ivg">[http://www.indianvideogamer.com/features/assassins-creed-4-black-flag-information-blowout/18744]</ref> | |||
==Editions== | |||
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag collector's edition will be announced at the end of March.<ref name="ivg">[http://www.indianvideogamer.com/features/assassins-creed-4-black-flag-information-blowout/18744]</ref> | |||
==Trivia== | ==Trivia== | ||
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag is an upcoming action-adventure game, and the sixth main installment in the Assassin's Creed series. A sequel to 2012's Assassin's Creed III, the game will tell the story of Edward Kenway - father to Haytham Kenway, grandfather to Ratonhnhaké:ton and an ancestor of Desmond Miles. Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag will be set primarily on and around the islands in the Caribbean Sea during the Golden Age of Piracy in the early 18th century. The game will take place in three major cities - Havana, Nassau and Kingston.
Development
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag producer Martin Schelling and mission director Ash Ismail stated that they started the project in the summer of 2011 and wanted the game to be a pirate game.[1] Ismail also stressed that they were focused on making the game into a more historically accurate take on the era and staying away from the stereotypical image associated with pirates such as parrots, Krakens and plank-walking.[2] They also explained that because the game was so radically different from the one that came before it and that the scope and open-world gameplay being so different from the previous game, they opted the game to be a numbered sequel rather than a spin-off following the footsteps of the last numbered game, Assassin's Creed III [1]
Ubisoft's Montreal-based team, in conjunction with 7 other studios from Singapore, Sofia, Annecy, Kiev, Quebec City, Bucharest and Montpellier, along with with developers of Far Cry 3 are working on the completion of the game with each studio focusing on different elements.[2]
Gameplay
About 60% of the game will take place on land. Players can explore 50 locations[3] ranging from fisherman villages, plantations, jungles, forts, islands, Mayan ruins and exotic Coconut Islands. Other activities include hunting, harpooning and exploring underwater environments. The game aims to blend between its land and aquatic experiences seamlessly, to the point where players can simply dive off of his ship, swim to the shore and explore the land.[4] Players can dive under the surface to loot under water ship wrecks.[5]
Combat
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag's combat has been upgraded to include free aiming. With the previous installments relying on the game's built-in auto aim, in Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag players will be able to just aim and fire, like in any other third-person shooter.[4]
Aside from hidden blade, Edward can equip four flintock pistols , and dual cutlass swords and chain their attacks together. Other weapons include a blow pipe with multiple effect darts and rope dart [5] Dual-wielding weapons has been implemented with Edward being able to have four pistols and be able to use them all together, chaining up to four gunshots into his normal attacks to take down more enemies.[4] Full-on underwater combat system is also developed for Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag including animals such as sharks and whales.[4]
The game will also include naval combat, with 40% of the story taking place in water, which includes numerous side missions.[4] After checking out a ship with your spyglass (which will give you more information on its cargo and capacity) from the ships crow's nest, players can launch an attack using various scenarios - with players able to simply shoot the opposing captain, board the ship leaping from mast-to-mast and performing an air assassination, or charge into the fray to cut down the foe using sword.[2] Players will also be able to exploit weather patterns, luring the opposition into less than ideal conditions such as dynamic storms, to their advantage.[4] Naval combat also features trajectory-based aiming system that requires knowledge of distance and speed of enemy.[5]
Upgradation
Players will also be able to upgrade Edward Kenway's vessel the Jackdaw with new weapons and abilities through pillaging, taking over enemy ships and completing missions.[4] Weapon upgrades include round shot, heat shot, chain shot, mines, mortar, swivel guns and ram.[5] The crew of the Jackdaw can also be upgraded with new outfits allowing for even more customization.[4] The game will so have different enemy archetypes at sea that all behave in vastly different ways and require you to have different upgrades to deal with them.[1]
Memories
Instead of Desmond Miles, the modern day will be centered around the players themselves who act as 'research analysts' working for Abstergo Entertainment and reliving the memories of Edward Kenway through the Animus, by using Desmond's DNA.[2] The Animus will no longer constraint the player with its barriers whenever the users 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 find stuff that can go to upgrading your ship. [6]
Other
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag will include many historical figures such as Benjamin Hornigold, Calico Jack, Anne Bonny, and Charles Vane along with Blackbeard.[4] The new Horizon open-world system will be packed with sea and underwater activities. The Horizon system dynamically creates side missions, such as merchant ships to rob, whales to hunt or pirates to rescue. Missions are created based on individual playing style.[5]
Multiplayer
Ubisoft has not yet told much about the multiplayer. The game will include cooperative and competitive multiplayer.[5]
Editions
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag collector's edition will be announced at the end of March.[5]
Trivia
- Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag is unique within the series in two ways; it is the only main game to have both a Roman numeral in its title and a subtitle, and it is the only main entry to have the historical element set before the previous one.
- While Edward's story takes place before Assassin's Creed III, this game is still considered a sequel as the modern day events still take place after its predecessor.
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References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Harpooning whales with Blackbeard - Assassin's Creed IV interview'
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 The Dawn of Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag
- ↑ Assassin's Creed 4 videos, details: New hero, 50 locations, multiplayer
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 4.6 4.7 4.8 Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag - Everything we know
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5 5.6 [1]
- ↑ Assassin's Creed IV's promise of a seamless, open world
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