Assassin’s Creed® IV Black Flag™ on Steam - User reviews, Price & Information
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The year is 1715. Pirates rule the Caribbean and have established their own lawless Republic where corruption, greediness and cruelty are commonplace.Among these outlaws is a brash young captain named Edward Kenway.
Assassin’s Creed® IV Black Flag™ is a pirates, open world and assassin game
developed by Ubisoft Montreal
and published by Ubisoft.
It's available only on Windows
in 16 languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese - Portugal, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Swedish and Simplified Chinese.
It has received 69,934 reviews of which 61,970 were positive and 7,964 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.7 out of 10. 😎
The game is currently priced at 39.99€ on Steam.
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Windows
- OS *: Windows Vista SP2
- Processor: Intel Core2Quad Q8400 @ 2.6 GHz or AMD Athlon II X4 620 @ 2.6 GHz
- Memory: 2 GB RAM
- Graphics: Nvidia Geforce GTX 260 or AMD Radeon HD 4870 (512MB VRAM with shader Model 4.0 or higher)
- Storage: 30 GB available space
- Sound Card: DirectX Compatible Sound Card with latest drivers
- Additional Notes: Windows-Compatible keyboard and mouse required, controller optional.
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Assassin’s Creed Black Flag is best pirate game that I’ve ever played (I didn’t play any pirate theme game apart from “Sid Meier’s Pirates!”). To me, this game is the best Assassin’s Creed game in Assassin’s Creed Franchise. However, with all of these positive sides this game didn’t give me the feeling of being assassin when I compare to other games in series. That’s why I don’t consider this game as an Assassin’s Creed game. It looks that Ubisoft thought like us that they tried to make an independent pirate game called Skull&Bones but they sucked whatever. Being a pirate in earlier 18th centuries was a great experience with so many activities, collectibles, contracts, raids that we did for upgrading our ship, creating your own fleet (You need to download a patch for activating this option unfortunately) and also the feeling of exploring the vast Caribbean with your crew. As good as these features are, the story and mission designs are just as bad. Usually the game wants you to follow one NPC and kill them at the end of mission. As a result, every gamer should play this game but not seeing as an Assassin’s Creed game. If you enter the game with these expectations, I believe that this game is going to be one of the best you've ever played.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag – Gold Edition ...is a parkour beat'em up adventure game. Edward Kenway, a lowly privateer, dons the hood of a dead assassin, attracting the attention of the Assassin Brotherhood, the Templar Order and the Pirate Federation, all while carving his own piece of the Caribbean. ⚙ Game Description & Mechanics ⚙ For those unfamiliar with the franchise, the metaplot based in the near-future uses a technology called the Animus that allows one to visit their ancestors' memories, passed down by genetics. Now that the technology no longer relies on live subjects, others can use advanced VR to relive other people's genetic memories, uncovering the hidden truth forgotten by time or kept hidden by biased historians. You're a new researcher for a mysterious new branch of Ubisoft called Abstergo Entertainment, looking into the history of Subject 17's ancestor, a notorious pirate called Edward Kenway. Unbeknownst to you, Abtergo is a front for the Templar Order, and the Animus technology is derived from extremely advanced technology of a long-lost people known as the Precursors, which left behind many technological artifacts for which Templars and Assassins have spent history competing over. You get to explore the Caribbean of the 18th Century, including multiple cities or small settlements, dozens of islands, along with a few jungle environments, ruins and underwater segments. You traverse the world by climbing anything: rocks, trees, buildings, even the highest towers. Forget about looking for yellow paint, as any nook and cranny will do, be it doors and windows, wood beams, loose bricks, roof carving, is it's big enough for your hand to grab onto, you can use it to climb. You can also hide from enemies by blending into crowds, diving in haystacks or crouching in foliage, to name a few. When you aren't sneaking, you can sword-fight your way with a block and counter system, allowing you to face multiple enemies at once. I cannot talk about Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag without bringing up its main attraction: ship exploration and battles. The mechanics first introduced in [url=https://store.steampowered.com/app/911400]Assassin's Creed III , you now have a wide variety of weapons at your disposal when at sea: side batteries, forward chain-ball launchers, mortar cannons, explosive barrels. You can blow your enemies to smithereens and sink them, or disable their vessels and board them for on-ship fights, from dueling with the captain on the rear deck to throwing snipers off the highest mast. You explore the open sea, battle enemy forts, dock in small settlements or stop by small islands to jump off your ship and look for forgotten treasure or drifted cargo. ☺ What I enjoyed ☺ Ubisoft have once again done a magnificent job at capturing historical locations and their look and feel, keeping them as authentic as real-life historical records allowed them. Havana, Nassau, Kingston, they all feel extremely distinct, accurately recreated and filled with their known landmarks. As you discover or visit those locations, their information is added to your database, enticing you to read up on the subject. Doing so is optional, but the option is there for those whose interest in the game spark a willingness to learn more on those locations. Gameplay is an experience that will vary widely depending on the environment. In cities, you jump from rooftop to rooftop, avoiding gunmen and tailing your enemies. In jungles, scoot along tree branches to hunt down human and animal preys alike. In lieu of managing assassin contracts, you get a trading game where, after building a fleet from captured ships, you send them out across the Atlantic Ocean for additional revenue, finding collectibles and unlocking additional trading locations. Along with hunting, a harpooning minigame opens additional crafting material by having you fish a variety of sharks and whales found in the area, including the elusive white whale. This allows you to improve your armor, increase ammunition storage capacity, or unlock new costumes. Your ship can also be improved with better cannons, increased storage and a reinforced hull, but the crafting materials such as iron, wood and cloth can only be found by capturing other ships. Finally, you eventually get your personal homestead, Great Inagua, where you can improve the village to provide you with shops and free services, as well as your house where you store your collectibles. ☹ What bothered me ☹ The game seems to have lost interest in the story. How is it that Edward, who has never got any Assassin training whatsoever, is capable of all the stealth techniques and combat tricks specific to the teachings of The Creed, and good enough to impress Templars into believing him to be a real Assassin? No one in their right mind would attempt a Leap of Fate, not without years of training, but here he goes, jumping from the highest tower into an insignificant haystack, including the backflip and open-armed back fall. I was also disappointed that the metaplot took such a back seat. With the Desmond story coming to an end, we got a small taste of its absence when playing [url=https://store.steampowered.com/app/260210]Assassin's Creed: Liberation (for those that played it), but I only really felt it now, as the modern story element almost felt shoehorned, almost an excuse to add a few familiar faces. Combat mechanics are very, very basic. Sure, you have pistols, smoke bomb and blow darts, but this pales in comparison to the dozens of combo moves and variety of gadgets you had in the similar but superior combat mechanics of [url=https://store.steampowered.com/app/200260]Batman: Arkham City released at least two years prior. While the animation makes a nice show of the swordplay, you're really doing little more than blocking and countering, breaking your streak as soon as you attempt to use a different move. Because of how easy it is, you have little incentives to use the stealth mechanics unless made mandatory by the mission criteria. You also have a total lack of incentive to get a perfect animus synchronization by filling optional objectives, except for assassin missions where the bonus objectives result in a higher payout. Verdict : ★★★★★ - "Play this. Now." Despite my criticism, the fact that this game isn't absolutely flawless doesn't take away from being the most fun game in the entire franchise, a game no one should miss out on, regardless of your prior experience with the series. It's a great Assassin's Creed game, and an excellent pirate game! With [url=https://store.steampowered.com/app/2853730] Skull and Bones 's lackluster features, it's a great time to revisit Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag ! P.S. : For years, the Gold Edition has been notorious for scamming people out of their [url=https://store.steampowered.com/app/277590]Assassin's Creed: Freedom Cry , even though the [url=https://store.steampowered.com/app/260950]Season Pass (part of the Gold Edition) clearly states that it is included. However, recent reports says that it was added back into the game's main menu, likely during the December 2024 update. Since my actual playthrough predates this, you'll have to wait for my review of the standalone [url=https://store.steampowered.com/app/277590]Assassin's Creed: Freedom Cry to get my opinion on it. ————————————————————————— This was just my opinion. If you found this review helpful, please consider giving it a thumbs up, and feel free to check out more of my (purely opinionated) [url=http://steamcommunity.com/groups/CJsOpinions/]reviews .
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Hey UbiSlop, can you please shift delete your ubislop launcher and let steam open the game, this will finally allow me to open the game without trying to keep re-entering the password again and again like a spastic forgetful idiot. Oh wait that's your launcher not me
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Everything that you love about the Assassin's Creed games is here: A nonsensical story about a clandestine war between Templar's and Assassins that has been going on for millennia and will go on until the Sun explodes. Since this isn't already dumb enough, of course, Aliens, their technology and their influence on Humanity. A childlike understanding of morality and the application of that to the overarching narrative and characters. The annoying modern-day Animus stuff is something the series should have ditched during the development process of the first game. Performance issues and bugs. Combat and stealth mechanics are barely held together by duct tape. Throwaway DLC that adds nothing to the main game, enhances nothing, and exists just to make money. But the game isn't a completely abject failure, which solely rests on the shoulders of the reason why this game is remembered quite fondly by people and liked, sailing around the Caribbean. It's fun to sail around, listen to some sea shanties, engage in naval combat, board enemy ships, plunder and do it all over again. The presentation, through its graphical fidelity and sound design, helps to bring this part of the game alive. This is the reason to play this game, because everything else is lacking. Characters are paraded around, but everyone is just a bad caricature and paper thin. The protagonist barely gets any character development, even though the story spans years. The side content is meaningless and useless. There is no point in doing assassinations when they pay so little. There is no point in robbing warehouses when you can just plunder another ship. The only thing that has any value and contributes to the gameplay are the sea shanties that can be collected. Hunting whales, sharks, and so on has its own minigame, which is nice, but almost all upgrades for the MC are not necessary in the slightest. Which, again, in turn means engaging with most of what the game has to offer is a waste of time. But once you're sailing around, most issues don't apply, though there are some undercooked parts of the game. Some of the upgrades for the ship are either useless or fluff. A fleet management thing that resembles mobile games with in-game timers before you can fiddle with it again. Which pays too little, so what's the point? Why not have big fleet battles that I have to engage in to get certain upgrades for my ship? Why not let me unlock different types of ships that are useful for certain areas of the map or better for engaging certain ships in combat ? There is fun to be had, and it is a decent game. The typical Assassin's Creed stuff is whatever, held back by the same mission types and just going through the motions. On the water, things change for the better, and you will have a jolly good time. But don't look too hard, or you will discover that the ship you're standing on is taking on water and is about to sink.
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Having only played AC1, AC2, Brotherhood, Revelations and AC4, gotta say for me AC4 is the most fun of the bunch. IMO, game still holds up visually. Naval gameplay is pretty cool. There's plenty of things to do, what amounts to quite alot gaming hours. Freedom Cry dlc is nice.
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