#Assassin creed 4 full#
#Assassin creed 4 Pc#

The vocal performances and text are rarely offensive or annoying. What remains instead is a well crafted but forgettable campaign about piracy in the West Indies, often featuring real figures from history. That's as subtle or sophisticated as the game's вЂњmetaвЂќ content really gets.) вЂњFolks want to have fun, right? Not think about social injustice and stuff,вЂќ the other replies. (Tucked away in menus, Abstergo employees argue about things like the game's mentions of slavery: вЂњIt's kind of part of the history of the region,вЂќ one says. Seems like a perfect canvas for despondent game designers to lambast their companies' working conditions or the drudgery of bloated, corporate games, yet such commentary is mostly left on the cutting room floor. So to review: you play as a video game tester who plays as a pirate. He rounds up a crew, secures a pirate ship, and sails from island to island in search of rum and loot.

#Assassin creed 4 full#

Once that jig is up, Kenway goes full pirate. Once he reaches the West Indies, he kills another assassin and steals his identity-and his trademark white robes-while trying to deliver cargo under a new name. Unlike the protagonists in other AC games, Kenway doesn't start things off as an officially ordained assassin. No parrot on his shoulder, though just a chip, mostly in the form of a beleaguered wife left behind during his travels (and hinted at in numerous flashback clips). Metagame testing 101Д®dward Kenway is the assassin this time, a Welshman eager to find riches on the open seas in the early 18th century. Even if you haven't burnt through every AC entry thus far, and even if you're charmed by the variety of set pieces throughout the latest campaign, ACIV sees the series both run out of creative gas and miss out on opportunities to refine its most basic gameplay elements.В Interested pirates can expect a mighty long journey in ACIV, but they should beware dehydration and scurvy along the way. Yet this stupidly huge game-yes, even bigger than the giant Assassin's Creed III-somehow feels claustrophobic. Once the game sets sail, its swashbuckling hero combines the extremes of a superpowered assassin and ruthless ship captain on a quest that seems to go on forever, traversing nearly the entire real-life enormity of the West Indies. 'People love pirates, right? Let's do pirates.'ДЄssassin's Creed IV: Black Flag doesn't necessarily play as half-assed as that might sound. Wackadoodle, but doable.В The series' sixth major installment, conversely, seems to say вЂњaw, whateverвЂќ to such strides. Links: Official website | Steam | AmazonStill, at least settings like ancient Italy and the American Revolution maintained a tenuous connection between past and present by way of, say, the Illuminati or conspiracy theories.

#Assassin creed 4 Pc#

Platform: Xbox 360 (reviewed), PS3, Wii U, PC (Nov.