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Good review again. and i agree with the points: (more) interesting characters and settings, fun powers to play with, and an excellent soundtrack (and indeed suprisingly longer than the main game). I'd give a 8.5, cause 1) the rather steep price of €30, especially with the wait of a month between (not apllicable anymore offcours) and b) sometimes a bit glitchy, especially in the first episode.
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(MAJOR SPOILERS FOR ANYONE WHO HAS NOT BEATEN ASSASSIN'S CREED III.
You have been warned)
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (2013)
Hello everyone, and Merry Christmas! (Barely)
I have returned after several months to bring you another review from the Assassin's Creed franchise. I hope it's to your liking.
Thankfully, I have two more reviews to do in the coming weeks...The DLC for Black Flag, Freedom Cry, will be reviewed, as will the upcoming HD release of Assassin's Creed Liberation.
Enjoy the read, as this is now either my longest review on the site or a very close second to a previous one.
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Good review, it kinda amazed me how good the Jackdaw's crew was at harmonizing
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Good review, here are a couple nit picks i have that you didnt include.
Edward doesn't interact with his crew except when ordering them to sing, and bossing them to shoot cannons and row the harpoon boat.
You have no real connection to to any of your crew, and you could care less who died because they are easily expendable and have the same skill as everyone else.
You cant take down masts with chain shot, only "stun them".
Cannons shoot faster then modern art and the swivel gun can be upgraded to a semi auto 5 shot cannon.
Musket skirmishes almost never result in casualties.
Both crews have a very hard time killing each other or do any of the objectives, and requires edward to do most of the dirty work.
You cant go below deck in your own ship, only the captains quarters.
Man'o'wars should in no way be taken down by a brig no matter how upgraded as easy as they are. They should require planning or jumping on them when they were weak, or in port. Once fully upgraded ship with 40 men and 30 cannons on each side can out fight any manowar that isnt legendary. Hell i could sit and beat one in a broadside match. What seems sad is that in real life, black beard was taken down by one swoop and a brig.
Also your ship wiil never be boarded.
All the wind does is blow your ship a little in the direction its going. You can still hit 50 miles per hour going against wind.
Not to mention in most of the bugs like wrong eye colors, the ship going under water and sailing like a submaring, and spazing out of people when they died.
Now even though many of these reasons were due to the developers making the game like this for gameplay reasons, if i were to have my perfect pirate game, all these would be fixed. This game was still very enjoyable though and it would be unfair to ask for more, so im happy.
Chris you did a nice job on pointing out the good things in this game, if it had a better story that made you feel alittle more attached to the people in the game it would be and easy 9 or 9.5. I know i wont get my perfect dream pirate game but this game is the next best thing. It was worth the 30$ i paid for it and i would reccomend i to a friend.
Maybe in another review add the mutiplayer side of the asassin creed series too.
I tried one round of multiplayer and it was thoroughly uninteresting. But then again I've not really a big fan of online stuff really at all.
I meant to mention the issues with naval combat but I forgot somehow. I did notice that the guns fire much faster than they should. But in my mind I like to think of it as Ubisoft condensing the game and world: in real life, it could take weeks to sail around Cuba. In game? A few minutes. Won't even notice the sun or moon moving through the sky. Same with only having forty men on the deck and being able to load four pistols in about 5 seconds tops.
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I would of thought you would have liked the mutiplayer campaign but hey, if that aint your thing thats fine.
Yea there would be few that would enjoy realistic timing for naval warfare and travelling which is why im not dissapointed in the more arcade gameplay. It could have been done differently but alwell, its still good in the end.
I'm not even entirely sure what multiplayer is about...Lol.
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Yeah good review, i agree about most. Offcours stuff like fighting a man o war or so with only a brig like ship is unrealistic, same for reloading so fast, but it wouldnt be fun if you can only fight brigs and schoeners.... The legendary ships provide a real challenge
Its nice to have a change with a non-Assassin-devotee for once (unlike the previous 3 characters), but the limit in combat is a downer, especially combined with his sometimes clunky movement. Compared to how connor fought with his tomahawk, clubs and more, (and especially the double counters), its a step down.
The setting is excellent, and havana, nassau and kingston are so much more fun to be in that NY or boston, even though they are smaller, you dont notice it. There is indeed way more to do with side missions and contracts. It's rather stupid that the social events stuff is down though. I wouldnt say the soundtrack is the best, i still give that credit to ACR, but its good enough. And the shanties are a great touch. Its a really beatifull world it really exceeted my expectations
Althouh i liked the modern stuff in previous games, i really disliked it now. The hacking and the info you get (voiceclips from desmond and subject 0) are intresting, but the first person view is just so tedious and non fun. There is no freerunning at all, which were some great sequences in the past game (the freerunning in the colloseum, or the skyscraper in NY). Instead you're stuck with your pda wandering around. On the same note, they missed some oppurtunities to re-introduce the toumbs from the Ezio trilogy with the maya setting in tulum
As for MP, i cant say too much about it. I play it regulary (although its been a week now because of steam sales and no more batteries for my controller). The problm with pc is that the community is too small to experience good gamelab modes, and the ranking system is really bad, which makes you avoid teamgames. But all in all, it's still a fun experience, the maps are better than AC3 and it has some more atmosphere to it. You barely see smokebomb, which is good, but knifestun is noww way harder, which isnt that good, cause t means less ways to defend yourself
+1, Good review as well friend !
Thanks for the kind support, everyone.
Some news:
I completed a review for Assassin's Creed IV: Freedom Cry some days ago. It will be part of the next issue of Gamer's Gazette.
In a week I will be playing Liberation HD, so I will probably have a review for that sometime soon after that. But who knows, I might save that for Gamer's Gazette as well .
Also, I'm in the process of reworking another franchise review I have written before, hoping to improve on it and make it SIGNIFICANTLY better. It won't go into this thread because it is not part of this franchise at all, but I will definitely post it in this section. I'm also in the pre-stages of another possible franchise review, though it will require a significantly different method of writing my reviews, which I'm trying to improve on. I hope that my style has improved since starting.
Also, I may tweak my second Assassin's Creed III review. The reason? I FINALLY did the Homestead missions, and I have a new found appreciation for them. I wish I had done them sooner.
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I don't find it as repetitive as previous installments, the assassination missions offer a greater sense of variety and aren't as copy-pasted as previous ones, the narrative doesn't take itself as seriously as previous ones. The glitches are minor compared to III (which were abysmal). Although I still think III had the most fluid combat. The naval combat is amazing, not flawless, but it has such a spark of originality about it that it's imperfections are almost charming. There were way more indoors places in III, which I thought was good and III had the very cool marching patrol columns of line infantry. There are three things about assassin's creed III that I liked and none have been successfully translated which I find perplexing, despite this: IV is probably the best assassin's creed, or more specifically I found it the most enjoyable.
I concur heartily with Chris' 85%, I might even be tempted to bump it up some because I had such low expectations that were dashed magnificently on bloody frothing coral reefs.
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Oh yeah, this game was what I want games to be: fun, and exceedingly so. I was just disappointed by the relative lack of...well, assassinations and other things that I love about the series.
Anyhow, I'm playing Assassin's Creed Liberation HD as we speak. Already I like it, and it is actually quite a bit different than what I was expecting.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Freedom Cry (2013)
I decided to use something else for my Gamer's Gazette article(s), so here is my Freedom Cry review as it was written a couple months ago.
I'll go over my Liberation review and post it in a couple days.
Also, I wanted to thank you guys for the support over the last year. This is one of my most viewed threads, and I really appreciate the feedback you guys give. I hope to continue writing useful reviews for this franchise as long as it goes.
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Assassin's Creed Liberation HD
"I stand with those who stand with me. I lure my prey through the guise of a lady. I escape unnoticed through the veil of a slave. And though I may conceal my identity, one thing is certain: commit injustice in this world, and I'll send you to the next. I am Aveline de Grandpré, I am an Assassin, and I fight for liberation."
Assassin's Creed III Liberation Vita (2012)
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