
Watch on YouTube I'll get Black Flag on the Best Games podcast one of these days. It promised to correct the course of the series after Assassin’s Creed 3 ran aground.Īnd you know what? It delivered on all those promises. It promised treachery, plunder, terror on the high seas.

Black Flag – as you’d probably guess from that evocative moniker – promised a sea-faring pirate adventure. Eschewing the heady streets of Italy or Constantinople, and removing itself as much as possible from the frigid wilds of Frontier America, this new game promised something different – something gamers hadn’t really seen since Sid Meier’s Pirates! (and wouldn’t see again until Sea of Thieves).

That there was still an appetite for the icon vomit open world stylings of a publisher quickly losing favor with swathes of the gaming audience.Įnter, then, Black Flag. That players should still care about the tired Assassins versus Templars beef that had, at this point, become the core narrative of five games. Coming out just one year after the disastrous, nearly franchise-ending reception of Assassin’s Creed 3, Black Flag needed to prove that the parkour-loving, history-altering tastes of the series were still relevant. IPad 3, iPad 4, iPad Air, iPad iPad, iPad Mini 2, iPad Mini 3, iPad Mini 4, 9.The tide was against Assassin’s Creed 4: Black Flag from the start. IPhone 12 Pro Max, iPhone 13 Pro Max, iPhone 14 Plus: 1284x2778 IPhone Xs Max, iPhone 11 Pro Max: 1242x2688 IPhone X, iPhone Xs, iPhone 11 Pro: 1125x2436 IPhone 6 plus, iPhone 6s plus, iPhone 7 plus, iPhone 8 plus: 1242x2208 IPhone 6, iPhone 6s, iPhone 7, iPhone 8: 750x1334 IPhone 5, iPhone 5s, iPhone 5c, iPhone SE: 640x1136

IPhone: iPhone 2G, iPhone 3G, iPhone 3GS: 320x480
