User blog comment:Master Sima Yi/Assassinews 03-03-'13 — Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag trailer and screenshots/@comment-4999424-20130324114843
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There was an exclusive trailer shown at Ubisoft's booth. Of course, before you can get an awesome ship, you have to recruit scoundrels to your crew — one example of doing this was by getting into a fight in a tavern. Win, and you have a crew mate who will follow you loyally through thick and thin. Lose, and well . . . I'm assuming it's game over. You have to make sure you continuously recruit though.
It seems like Ubisoft really wants you to feel like a pirate in Black Flag, urging you to plunder, pillage, and loot ships and villages. Including in this is diving for treasure — Kenway will have to risk life and limb agains ocean dwellers (sharks!) to get valuable booty. Although when you dive to the depths of the ocean, the sharks are the hunters, but above, Kenway is the hunter.
When you're not hunting, there's plantations, fishing villages, and Mayan ruins to explore and discover. Like Todd Howard of Bethesda, Ubisoft promises “if you can see it, you can visit it” — hopefully this time it won't be a false claim by the gaming industry.
In addition are the expected dual hidden blades, which Ubisoft claim will play a bigger role than just a cool piece of weaponry.