A good five hours of content.Ĭons: Too little exploration and no improvements to the already mediocre combat and platforming. Pros: It’s not exactly subtle but the plot tackles issues that other games would never dare, creating mission objectives that for once you genuinely care about. In Short: One step forward in terms of story and two back when it comes to gameplay, Black Flag’s first story expansion has its heart in the right place but that’s about all. For a series with the whole of history to use as its backdrop it should be impossible for Assassin’s Creed to be this bland and flavourless. Whether it becomes funnier, more serious, more dramatic, or more fantastical is entirely up to Ubisoft but Assassin’s Creed needs to become something, anything, with a clear personality and vision. The premise is still a promising one but it’s now got to the stage where the action mechanics need to be completely reworked from scratch, while the story needs new direction and better writing.
Ubisoft’s insistence on making Assassin’s Creed a yearly franchise gives it no time to pause and take stock of itself. Meanwhile, the parkour style movement system remains essentially identical to before – and now well past its sell-by-date. And although Adéwalé has different weapons to Kenway (primarily a machete and a blunderbuss) their more brutal nature ensures the combat is even more inelegant than ever. It’s also disappointing to find that freeing slaves has no other gameplay purpose than unlocking new items and upgrades. There are few side quests or other distractions and the main story can beaten in three hours, with only an hour or so of extras on top of that.
You’re no longer touring round the Caribbean doing whatever you want, you’re stuck in Port-au-Prince and its immediate surroundings. The supreme irony is the game’s lack of freedom compared to Black Flag. Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag – Freedom Cry (PS4) – machetes are useless for putting out firesįrom a story point of view Freedom Cry is a significant improvement on its parent game but in all other respects it’s a backwards step.
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