Devils of the Caribbean

"Certainly we realized very early in production that Devils of the Caribbean would not be the ideal experience for everyone. But for those who want a fun, exciting, and lighthearted look at the Golden Age of Piracy, their ship has come to port."

―Helix Team Virtual Entertainment eXposition (VEX) Press Training document, 2014.

Devils of the Caribbean

Devils of the Caribbean was a 2014 feature film produced by Abstergo Entertainment. Like the video game Pirates of Nightmares, Devils was made using footage sourced from an Abstergo research analyst's Animus Omega sessions reliving the pirate Edward Kenway's genetic memories.

However, as with Pirates of Nightmares and Abstergo's 2012 video game Liberation, the final product was heavily censored and modified, omitting all traces of the Assassins or the Observatory from Kenway's recovered memories. Devils fared poorly upon release, being described as "a frightful mess of clichés, dime-store moralizing, and pandering stereotypes" according to Abstergo's own Helix Team Virtual Entertainment eXposition Press Training document.

By the 2090s, the film poster's image file, its trailer video file, and the movie itself had all suffered such severe data degradation that Abstergo tried to salvage them by running the few surviving bits through generative AI and re-released it as "The Devils of the Caribbean" with a rumored $1.5 billion budget. However, the outputs were nowhere near close to what had first been made, going so far as to wholly alter scenes and replace Adéwalé with an Irishwoman original character as the Jackdaw's quartermaster, and the resulting product was critically panned even worse than the original. An aggregate review said it felt like bad corporate fanfiction made as a "soulless cash grab" due to its overdone tropes, a barely sensible plot, lackluster voice-acting by the entire cast, and inexplicably poor CGI more akin to early 2000s gaming consoles than contemporary big-budget films. It ultimately deemed the whole thing "an overwrought, incoherent slog", and suggested that readers watch the original instead, as bad as it also was.

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Behind the scenes

The film's title is a clear reference to the Disney film series Pirates of the Caribbean.

Appearances

• Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (first appearance)
• Assassin's Creed: Unity (mentioned only) (mentioned in Database entry only)
• Animus Hub