Assassin's Creed IV Black Flag - Gamers Guide

 Assassin's Creed IV Black Flag

Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag is an action-adventure video game developed by Ubisoft Montreal and published by Ubisoft. It is the sixth major installment in the Assassin's Creed series. Its historical timeframe precedes that of Assassin's Creed III (2012), but its modern-day sequences succeed III's own. Black Flag was originally released for PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, and Wii U in October 2013 and a month later for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Microsoft Windows. It was later re-released on the Nintendo Switch as part of The Rebel Collection alongside Assassin's Creed Rogue in December 2019.

The plot is set in a fictional history of real-world events and follows the millennia-old struggle between the Assassins, who fight to preserve peace and free will, and the Templars, who desire peace through control. The framing story is set in the 21st century and depicts the player as an employee of Abstergo Industries (a company used as a front by the modern-day Templars), who becomes caught in their conflict with the Assassins. The main story is set in the Caribbean during the Golden Age of Piracy from 1715 to 1722 and follows notorious Welsh pirate Edward Kenway, grandfather and father of Assassin's Creed III protagonist Ratonhnhaké:ton and antagonist Haytham Kenway, respectively, who stumbles upon the Assassin-Templar conflict. A major plot element concerns the attempted establishment of an independent Pirate republic in the Caribbean.

Unlike previous games, gameplay elements focus more on the ship-based exploration of the seamless open-world map, while also retaining the series' third-person land-based exploration, melee combat, and stealth system. Multiplayer also returns, albeit with only land-based modes and settings. The game's setting spans the West Indies with the three main cities of Havana, Nassau, and Kingston, along with numerous islands, sunken ships, and forts. Players have the option to harpoon large sea animals and hunt land animals. For the first time in the series, naval exploration is a major part of an Assassin's Creed game, where Edward captains the Jackdaw, a brig he captures from a Spanish fleet in an early game mission.

Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag received critical acclaim and was one of the best-selling games of 2013, with over 15 million copies sold as of 2020. Critics praised the open-world gameplay, improved naval combat, side-quests, graphics, narrative, characters, and pirate theme. However, the modern-day story and combat received a slightly more mixed response, while criticism fell on aspects of the historical story missions which were considered repetitive. The game received several awards and nominations, including winning the Spike VGX 2013 award for Best Action-Adventure Game. It was followed by Assassin's Creed Rogue and Assassin's Creed Unity in November 2014.

• Developer   Ubisoft Montreal/ Ubisoft Milan/ Ubisoft Kyiv
• Publisher    Ubisoft
• Director     Jean Guesdon/ Ashraf Ismail/ Damien Kieken
• Producer   Martin Schelling
• Designer   Eric Baptizat/ Jean-Sebastien Decant
• Artist        Raphael Lacoste
• Writer       Darby McDevitt
• Composer  Brian Tyler
• Series         Assassin's Creed
• Engine   AnvilNext
• Platform PlayStation 3/ Xbox 360/ Wii U/ PlayStation 4/ Microsoft Windows/ Xbox One/ Nintendo Switch/ Google Stadia
• Release show   October 29, 2013
• Genre    Action-adventure, stealth
• Mode     Single-player, multiplayer

 

 Minimum requirements

• Operating system Windows Vista SP2, Windows 7 SP1 or Windows 8 (both 32/64 bit versions)

• Processor Intel Core2Quad Q8400 @ 2.6 GHz or AMD Athlon II X4 620 @ 2.6 GHz 

• RAM 2 GB

• Video card Nvidia Geforce GTX 260 or AMD Radeon HD 4870 (512MB VRAM with shader Model 4.0 or higher). Other cards may be supported*

• Hard disk 30 GB available storage

• Sound card DirectX-compatible sound card with latest drivers 

• Peripherals Windows-compatible keyboard and mouse (required), Microsoft Xbox 360 controller

Recommended requirements

• Operating system Windows Vista SP2, Windows 7 SP1 or Windows 8 (both 32/64 bit versions)

• Processor Intel Core i5 2400S @ 2.5 GHz or better or AMD Phenom II x4 940 @ 3.0 GHz

• RAM 4 GB

• Video card Nvidia GeForce GTX 470 or AMD Radeon HD 5850 (1024MB VRAM with Shader Model 5.0) or better. Other cards may be supported*

• Hard disk 30 GB available storage

• Sound card DirectX-compatible sound card with latest drivers 

• Peripherals Windows-compatible keyboard and mouse (required), Microsoft Xbox 360 controller 

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