Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag

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  1. Demon2017
    Jun 18, 2022
    7
    Многие обожают эту игру, но по мне - она хуже даже третьей части. Да, в ней клёвый сюжет, но сами миссии очень скучные, ведь почти половина из них - это слежка за кем-то, что очень раздражает. В игре мало дополнительных миссий и основные дела в открытом мире - это собирательство всякой фигни. Игра неплохая, но на мой взгляд, переоценённая.Многие обожают эту игру, но по мне - она хуже даже третьей части. Да, в ней клёвый сюжет, но сами миссии очень скучные, ведь почти половина из них - это слежка за кем-то, что очень раздражает. В игре мало дополнительных миссий и основные дела в открытом мире - это собирательство всякой фигни. Игра неплохая, но на мой взгляд, переоценённая.
  2. Pharaoshka
    Feb 23, 2019
    7
    I played more than 100 hours in this game. I liked a lot of things, battles, pumping the ship and pumping the character. The weak points of this game are graphics, plot and sound. Mostly I am pleased with this game.
  3. Tilt1k
    Feb 6, 2019
    7
    Most overrated Creed for me. I dont have the Assasin feeling from this one it just feels very not assasin. Naval combat gets boring after like hour and two. Still an assassins creed, some good characters and fun to play through just not as good as previous titles.
  4. kuczmcym
    Feb 8, 2019
    7
    By far the best assassin's creed game. The pirate ship mechanics are unique and fun to play.
  5. res0nancer
    Jun 5, 2023
    7
    Доработанные морские сражения, геймплей, исследование мира, неоднозначный герой и приключения - похоже то, что вы точно получите от этой части. Лично для меня всегда было приятно вернутся в эту игру, но больше всего запомнилось изменение характера персонажа после всех событий в игре. Если зайдет геймплей, то сюжет станет неплохим дополнение, недотягивающим, конечно, до предыдущих частей,Доработанные морские сражения, геймплей, исследование мира, неоднозначный герой и приключения - похоже то, что вы точно получите от этой части. Лично для меня всегда было приятно вернутся в эту игру, но больше всего запомнилось изменение характера персонажа после всех событий в игре. Если зайдет геймплей, то сюжет станет неплохим дополнение, недотягивающим, конечно, до предыдущих частей, но он старается держать планку.… Expand
  6. elolugo
    Apr 27, 2020
    7
    Good game but bad assassin's creed game. Tying your shoes is more difficult than this game and there is no downside to being combat centered instead of stealth approach
  7. Wodzu_Andzej
    May 30, 2023
    7
    Another Assassin's Creed game. I miss some things from the previous ones. But he also has some new, good ideas. I miss parkour. The graphics are currently not knocking down, but it is acceptable. Story is acceptable. However, it still plays well, boating, side missions or clearing the map is fun.
    I honestly really wanted to play.
  8. Alvelian
    Dec 14, 2022
    7
    Интересное пиратское преключение. Если вы не являетесь душным фанатом ассасинов, а просто хотите добротную историю в духе пиратов карибского моря, то игра для вас
  9. shauntmw
    May 14, 2020
    7
    I play this on UPlay, and play exclusively on the single player campaign only.

    First of all, let's talk about the technical issues that I have faced. The game is very poorly optimized. Despite having a moderately high-end PC, I still get a very bad lag and framerate issue. Disabling V-Sync improves a lot on the lag, but the tearing is too terrible to play with it disabled. There are    I play this on UPlay, and play exclusively on the single player campaign only.

    First of all, let's talk about the technical issues that I have faced. The game is very poorly optimized. Despite having a moderately high-end PC, I still get a very bad lag and framerate issue. Disabling V-Sync improves a lot on the lag, but the tearing is too terrible to play with it disabled.

    There are some software tweaks that greatly improves the framerate. One of them is D3DOverrider. Another is to disable one of the CPU core assigned to the game via Task Manager. Also, the game will suddenly hang when my connection is bad.

    Technical issues aside, the game itself is great! This game put some very heavy emphasis on naval warfare and navigation. Although I hated the naval scenario in the previous game, I totally loved it in this game! The world is huge and full of things to do. The story is great, and I really like that fact they finally minimized the "modern world" part and made it trivial enough for me to not care, and yet put enough interesting backstory into the hacking mini-game for me to explore.

    The stealth mechanic has improved quite a bit, but I don't really like the battle mechanic in this game compared to the older games. The enemies are too easy to kill, but sometimes the battle camera or controls are so bad that you will get killed just by 1 or 2 combos by an enemy, despite having full health.

    I hated the underwater area. It is so bad that I have given up on fully complete the collectibles just because I can't be bothered to play all the under water stages.

    I would have given this game a score of 9/10, but I have decided to deduct a few points because of the bad PC port.    … Expand
  10. Kujin
    Jan 27, 2021
    7
    AC4 is one of those "if they gave it one-two more years, it would've been a masterpiece" situations. This is pretty much the best Assassin's Creed game of the pre-Unity generation, combining great story, a lived-in open world and innovation to create a uniquely fun action experience. It's full of pirate's romance, great music and vibrant folliage. Black Flag's bugginess is pretty much deepAC4 is one of those "if they gave it one-two more years, it would've been a masterpiece" situations. This is pretty much the best Assassin's Creed game of the pre-Unity generation, combining great story, a lived-in open world and innovation to create a uniquely fun action experience. It's full of pirate's romance, great music and vibrant folliage. Black Flag's bugginess is pretty much deep in it's core, and with how overkill the road to 100%-ing it was, there're a lot of little things that bring the whole game down… Expand
  11. zzz_DeV1L_zzz
    Jun 13, 2020
    7
    On the advice I decided to try playing. It seems like at the beginning it was not bad, but I did not like the plot, in the middle of the game it became boring and I had to finish the passage. 7 points.
  12. Svetlendrius
    Jun 19, 2020
    7
    A good assassin, with a good plot, is held in one breath, a large world of beautiful locations.
  13. Zinaldo
    Jun 10, 2023
    7
    boring game-play , did not have a good story , less interesting than Assassin's creed 3
  14. Tsunowa
    Sep 25, 2020
    7
    Didn't like many aspects on gameplay, too much tailing and boring puzzles, but the thematic and all the ambience was really cool, a plus for pirate's songs.
  15. YIshuishen
    Oct 24, 2020
    7
    说实话，这一部不错的刺客信条，海战与海盗元素十分新颖。 但任务很无聊，画质很不好，优化太烂。
  16. Noble21
    Jan 6, 2021
    7
    This game is quite good to play even in 2021. Pretty serviceable graphics, tight combat, and amazing set pieces. Black Flag has its epic moments however they are burried under hours of boredom like Chasing/Trailing Missions and this game has alot of them . The Naval Combat is just pure epicness and the Ship-to-Ship combat really Added to the excitement .
  17. Mazma
    Dec 25, 2020
    7
    Il migliore della saga, ma solo per il comparto navale. il resto? identico a tutti gli altri.
  18. elefsar
    Apr 22, 2021
    7
    A mediocre game of assassin's creed games. Good in the sea but mediocre fighting, mediocre story.
  19. Yaav13
    May 9, 2022
    7
    My truthful honorable incorruptible conclusive rating of this considered game: 7.
  20. qzzzeee
    Jan 2, 2022
    7
    A very good game. Exciting sea battles. Assassins are few, the game is about them, but there are almost none. In general, it is a solid project.
  21. Ocmah_
    Mar 30, 2023
    7
    This is not AC game.
    Graphics 7
    Gameplay 8
    Controls 6
    Sounds 8
    Story 7
    Main Character 8
    Side Characters 7
    Quests 7
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    Overall 7
  22. Vixremento
    Dec 2, 2013
    6
    Being a fan of AC2 and brotherhood I'd been rather let down with anything that followed and even with the over-hyped AC3 I got seriously burnt. I then waited...cautiously...for the Black Flag reviews and in general it all seemed to point out that they'd corrected their flaws and gone back a little to their roots. Is it true you ask?
     
      Well yes for some bits and sadly...no for the most    Being a fan of AC2 and brotherhood I'd been rather let down with anything that followed and even with the over-hyped AC3 I got seriously burnt. I then waited...cautiously...for the Black Flag reviews and in general it all seemed to point out that they'd corrected their flaws and gone back a little to their roots. Is it true you ask?
     
     
    Well yes for some bits and sadly...no for the most part. AC2 had you really involved and it made sure that you had to do a little more than just "point and shoot" so to speak. Black Flag comes along and introduces us to some more intensive ship control and ship battles that really do feel pretty good to take part in initially. Soon though you do feel that this "pirate-battle-ship-thing" is a bit flat and it starts to get quite boring pretty quickly so it's sad that it has such a huge focus in the game because it really stops being fun after the first two hours or so.
     
     
    Platforming it's just gone I'm sad to say. Every bit of navigation required now is only made more difficult by figuring out which bit of the map it is that you have to navigate around everything in-between that is just pointing and holding down the shift key to get there (and then sometimes you just can't "disconnect" because you've become a sticky monkey to anything that is not at ground level). It's fun right in the beginning but then you soon start to realise that there is actually no challenge to doing any of it.
     
     
    Combat: Pretty much nothing new here boring and as easy as ever (in fact it felt even easier this time around). Sure, you'll have to dodge a few grenades, counter (feels very much like Batmans counter-moves) and break defenses by using a key press...rather un-rewarding in the end especially when you know that a monkey could pull off the same moves.
     
     
    Once again I'm left rather disappointed (and I haven't even touched on the "future" bits that feel about as fun to play as just watching a clip of someone else play the game...hell even that would have been more fun!) and after having played through the somewhat long and fairly boring story I just didn't feel anything special about this game (I actually had to force myself to keep playing through it and all the time I kept thinking "maybe I should just re-install and play through AC2 or AC:Brotherhood again instead). With promises of an upgrade system similar to Far Cry 3 (sure, it's mostly true but pretty much damn boring and not very much required) and the usual "hunt" for collectables being slapped in there I eventually stopped because the game just become sooo long in the tooth.
     
     
    Ah well I guess I should have realised this after revelations that the game has just been effectively dumbed down to a more simplistic experience that what we were introduced to before in the previous titles...maybe I'm just getting old or maybe I'm just trying to expect too much when consoles dominate so heavily. My conclusion: if you loved AC2/Brotherhood and despised AC3/Revelations then give this one a skip. In the end this one looks pretty and plays fairly nicely with my PC hardware yet in the end it just feels overly simplified and too heavily story-focused without really giving too much of a damn about game-play.    … Expand
  23. freacrou
    Dec 29, 2013
    6
    It is totally missing the epicness of AC2 and AC1, there are no cathedrales or dungeons, instead you can swim in piss with make you feel like a real A$$ pirate and blonde. You would think the world is huge, but there is so much rehashing of content, it is nowhere as big as AC1 and pointless to explore. The characters are rather bland and the killing of Desmond in AC3 made story about theIt is totally missing the epicness of AC2 and AC1, there are no cathedrales or dungeons, instead you can swim in piss with make you feel like a real A$$ pirate and blonde. You would think the world is huge, but there is so much rehashing of content, it is nowhere as big as AC1 and pointless to explore. The characters are rather bland and the killing of Desmond in AC3 made story about the ancestors lose its connection. Whats positive is the sandbox that the developers created. Also they got rid of QTEs, its not as as AC3, but still lacking big storywise. When AC2 was a 10, then I am giving this a 6.… Expand
  24. Thatweirdguy
    Nov 28, 2013
    6
    Good Game but with issues the PC versions always faced Fps bugs, and graphics issues and poor performance other then that it can be considered as a great game
  25. DanielCorfour
    Nov 26, 2013
    6
    Assassin's Creed 4: 90% pirate, 10% assassin. To see a summary of this review scroll to the end.

    Ubisoft went ahead and did the obvious. They took, the best part of Assassin's Creed 3, really the only really good part, and made a game out of it. Literally, they retrofitted the game engine used in the previous title into this a new game, while barely adding or changing anything. This    Assassin's Creed 4: 90% pirate, 10% assassin. To see a summary of this review scroll to the end.

    Ubisoft went ahead and did the obvious. They took, the best part of Assassin's Creed 3, really the only really good part, and made a game out of it. Literally, they retrofitted the game engine used in the previous title into this a new game, while barely adding or changing anything. This whole game felt like an AC 3.1, rather than a new title.. which, I wouldn't have had a problem with, if they would have fixed the problems that plagued AC3, or actually gave us a good, satisfying story, like AC2, but they didn't.

    Assassin's Creed wasn't particularly good when it came to game mechanics, AC1 and 2 were kind of bad actually, instead, it was built by it's amazing storytelling, beautiful setting, and wonderful soundtrack. I still listen to Ezio's Family by Jesper Kyd from AC2. That song brings back a kind of emotions that I rarely feel with games. AC4, however delivers only one of these, the setting. I'm going to start by criticizing the story itself. It's terrible. First off, it has nothing to do with Assassins, they barely make a cameo appearance, both inside and outside the Animus. The whole game revolves around pirates, and that wouldn't be a problem, if it was a good story. And it starts out good, but then it gets riddled with plot holes, poor writing, scenes that don't make sense, and although they stayed away from the obvious parrot cliches, they added a bunch of them story-wise. The story does make a few twists, but most of them you'll see coming a mily away, and most of them don't make sense. There is no main enemy in the game, and most of the things that happen in the game make no sense. And if you were expecting a great ending.. don't.. it is terrible. The only plot-twist you won't see coming in this game is the ending.. they drop it on you out of nowhere, just when you were expecting the game would truly begin, and then they hit you in the face with a poorly done cutscene, and leave you confused.

    Here's a tip, dear Ubisoft. A story, every story, follows 5 basic steps, not necessarily in this order: Exposition, Rising Action, Progression, Climax, Ending. The 4th is completely missing, and the fifth leaves you confused, when it should leave you satisfied.

    Then there are the actual missions in the story. Boring, repetitive and most of them don't make sense. All you do is follow this guy, eavesdrop on that guy. And on rare occasions you kill someone. Missions involving ships can be interesting, but at times they are the same boring "follow that ship" nonsense. In comparison with GTA 5, or Red Dead Redemption, where every mission was unique and intriguing, here they are boring, unimaginative and repetitive. The same goes for side missions. Assassinations, Naval Missions and Templar Hunts. All of them are basically the same. If you did one then you did all, there's no point in continuing. You play through it once, but you won't want to play through it a second time.

    What saves the game is the beautiful and huge open world game, the side activities(not missions) and the naval combat. The setting is really amazing, although some fans of the series will find it irritating that you won't visit cities that much, only a couple times, and they are small with not a lot of things to do, the setting just didn't allow for that. Most of the time you will do what the game is all about: pirating. Naval combat is really fun, and it's been expanded upon a lot.: you can board ships, capture them, steal their cargo and send them to your fleet, you can attack naval forts and capture them. You can use those resources to upgrade your ship and so on. There are also underwater places you can explore, but there are limited, and in comparison with GTAV, where there was an entire open-world you could explore, here there are only ten locations, but it still looks great, and avoiding sharks and medusas is great fun. You can also raid plantations, which are a ton of fun... basically the side activities are really great, and make this game enjoyable, even though the story brings it down.

    In summary, it looks like this game was made just so Ubisoft can make more money off of the ship mechanics in AC3. Combat and land based mechanics are basically the same as the previous game, although they did need changing and improving. The game engine is the same as it was in the third title, with very little improvement, or change, when it, again needed it. And all of this would not be a problem if the game offered a good story, but it doesn't. The story seems like an excuse to sell an adapted version of AC3, and the story is driven by the game mechanics, and not vice versa. Luckily the beautiful setting, graphics and excellent pirate game save the game and prop up the rating to a 6/10. You can't help but feel, if they only spent a little bit more time, and wouldn't pump out a game every year, it could've been an amazing game.    … Expand
  26. serp86
    Nov 24, 2013
    6
    Great pirate game with stupid Assasins/Templar non-sense. I really dislike the storyline of the Assasins Creed series with it's convoluted non-sensical mystic mumbo-jumbo In this you can mostly ignore those and just sail around pirating you can have tons of fun for hours very early. The rest of the game outside the naval battles is pretty eh. At least the protagonist is aware of howGreat pirate game with stupid Assasins/Templar non-sense. I really dislike the storyline of the Assasins Creed series with it's convoluted non-sensical mystic mumbo-jumbo In this you can mostly ignore those and just sail around pirating you can have tons of fun for hours very early. The rest of the game outside the naval battles is pretty eh. At least the protagonist is aware of how stupid the stuff he sees is and comments on it .

    Ubisoft should just completely drop the Assasins stuff and make game full Naval/Pirate game Cause thats awesome and i fully recommend to buy the game it at a lower price just for that.

    Optimization isn't optimal but it runs very well on my PC on basically maxed details with some glitches here and there. Didn't run into anything major yet.    … Expand
  27. dsj556
    Dec 29, 2014
    6
    This game is great as long as you don't play the main storyline. Lots of tailing missions. The ship to ship combat is pretty cool and one of my favorite aspects. Graphics are amazing as with every modern game. Story didn't hold my interest despite trying to watch all the cutscenes. You can tell this game was pushed out to make more money as with a little bit more time invested itThis game is great as long as you don't play the main storyline. Lots of tailing missions. The ship to ship combat is pretty cool and one of my favorite aspects. Graphics are amazing as with every modern game. Story didn't hold my interest despite trying to watch all the cutscenes. You can tell this game was pushed out to make more money as with a little bit more time invested it could be amazing.… Expand
  28. red259
    Nov 25, 2013
    6
    I took the time to write a review, because I don't want people to get misled by the hype and run out and blow all their money on this game. There is no way this game is a 10. The premise of the game is interesting and the game is ambitions. I enjoy the graphics. However, the controls are absolutely terrible. Its even worse than I remember from brotherhood. Its very difficult to do anythingI took the time to write a review, because I don't want people to get misled by the hype and run out and blow all their money on this game. There is no way this game is a 10. The premise of the game is interesting and the game is ambitions. I enjoy the graphics. However, the controls are absolutely terrible. Its even worse than I remember from brotherhood. Its very difficult to do anything without the game thinking your trying to do something else. I have found the game to be extremely frustrating due to the poor control design. Unfortunately, since the story is not that great the only thing that could save this game is the game play, but you need intuitive controls for that. If this had been the first attempt of a company at a game maybe I could be a bit more forgiving. However, this is another game in a long series of games and apparently the company could not be bothered to fix problems that have existed in their prior games. Bottom line is that it was a game with potential, but poor game design has really taken the fun out of it.… Expand
  29. Dragz
    Feb 3, 2014
    6
    I love all of Assassin's creeds games. But this one wasn't that good like the other ones. It was fun yes, but I didn't liked that you are a pirate and almost always are in a ship. It just didn't feel like the other games. But the graphics are good and most of the game play is still really fun.
  30. dyspeptic
    Feb 3, 2015
    6
    VERSION: Steam (XBOX controller)
    PROS: + ship combat is better than before + stealth is more important (i.e. "don't be detected" objective is common) + all weapons have situations where useful
    CONS: - uninteresting protagonist and nonsensical story - annoying stuff = sharks, eavesdropping missions, grinding (stealing ships), op'd "legendary ships" Okay but not compelling. The cracks    VERSION: Steam (XBOX controller)
    PROS: + ship combat is better than before + stealth is more important (i.e. "don't be detected" objective is common) + all weapons have situations where useful
    CONS: - uninteresting protagonist and nonsensical story - annoying stuff = sharks, eavesdropping missions, grinding (stealing ships), op'd "legendary ships"

    Okay but not compelling. The cracks are starting to show in the series: being better than AC3 is not very high praise but seems to be what everyone liked best about this installment. Definitely disregard the stuff about a great story, too: pirates were/are selfish thieves and their motives really aren't a strong enough basis for an entire storyline as you'll find out if you bother with this.    … Expand
  31. ForumFace
    Feb 9, 2014
    6
    Very beautiful graphics, extremely beautiful world. This is one of the best pirate's game ever, PIRATE'S not assassins unfortunately. Now don't get me wrong, the game was hell of a fun, but none of that comes the storyline and the titles: Assassin's creed. I'm a hardcore fan of ac and I expected something huge and awesome from black flag. As in awesome I ment a strong storyline.Very beautiful graphics, extremely beautiful world. This is one of the best pirate's game ever, PIRATE'S not assassins unfortunately. Now don't get me wrong, the game was hell of a fun, but none of that comes the storyline and the titles: Assassin's creed. I'm a hardcore fan of ac and I expected something huge and awesome from black flag. As in awesome I ment a strong storyline. Unfortunately, it wasn't a strong story based game whereas all of the other ac's (exept ac 3), they had strong gameplay and storyline. If it was named a pirate name game, I would've considered it as something awesome but I really like the Assassin's Creed name and why it's named so. Now if it would've been an online game where you could battle ships, then it would be awesome. But now I lost hope on them making an actual assassin's creed game.… Expand
  32. Hack
    Dec 23, 2015
    6
    Assassin's Creed is a series that every gamer has heard of, and one most have tried but up until now I have somehow avoided it, without trying to. I opted to start with Black Flag due to the fact pirates are cool, and that's as good of a reason as any in my book! I also read plenty of reviews and most people rate Assassin's Creed II and Black Flag as the best in the series and I liked theAssassin's Creed is a series that every gamer has heard of, and one most have tried but up until now I have somehow avoided it, without trying to. I opted to start with Black Flag due to the fact pirates are cool, and that's as good of a reason as any in my book! I also read plenty of reviews and most people rate Assassin's Creed II and Black Flag as the best in the series and I liked the look of Black Flag more.

    Now, I have to say I like elements of it but overall it's not quite as good as I was expecting for a number of reasons. First off, I had no idea the games were a simulation and you were just some guy logging into the world for research purposes, this completely threw me off and was one of the reasons I couldn't really get into the game. For example, I was just starting to get into the story (which I enjoyed, mostly) when suddenly I'm told to log off of my workstation and walk around the office to access a colleagues computer to hack into their email, I **** you not, I had to stop being a pirate to go read **** emails. Every time I was brought back into the real world it completely killed any story immersion and ruined the overall experience.

    A big selling point of Black Flag was the naval combat system and honestly, I didn't enjoy it, especially in the beginning when your ship is without upgrades. And speaking of upgrades, as I chose not to do all the side fluff I was extremely low on currency which meant my ship was always under geared for quests and I was often told to upgrade the Jackdaw before continuing. I also found myself unable to afford new pistols and swords which was a shame.

    In comparison I did enjoy the melee combat system though, while it's simple and does get repetitive after awhile it is satisfying and fun, jumping off a building and skewing two guards on your way down never got old throughout my playthrough. It would have been nice to gain access to combos and special moves as you progressed later in the game which never happened, something which Mad Max did really well, it would have helped with the combat feeling stale after awhile. Another big part of the game other than hand to hand combat was the parkour, you can run across rooftops, climb up towers, swing from trees and go almost anywhere you want to, but at the same time it does feel very scripted in a way. For example I wanted to climb up through a window but the game wouldn't let me until I took one shimmy to my right, there was no reason for this, Edward could have clearly gotten through the window where I asked him to but the game just wasn't coded to allow it, stuff like this happened all the time and it was quite frustrating.

    A huge plus for the game was the voice work, especially Matt Ryan (Constantine) as Edward, but the entire cast was well voiced and it really helped to push the story which sadly felt fragmented due to the way it was told. You would often skip ahead in time and find yourself in a new area after jumping on your boat and sailing out to sea. I felt this really made the story confusing at times. This coupled with the immersion killing real life sequences definitely hurt what could have been a very enjoyable story overall.

    Technically the game worked fine for me, it's 2 years old now so you'd expect it to but even with a GTX 970 I had to turn off physx entirely, as well as lowering a few settings to maintain 60fps 99% of the time @ 1080p. The in-game vsync did cause issues though, the game uses double buffering which meant whenever I dropped even a couple of frames the FPS would drop to a locked 30fps. To fix this I had to disable vsync in-game and force it along with triple using D3DOverider. Overall the game looked and ran nicely with a little tweaking so I can't complain too much on this front.

    Overall the game was OK, it didn't blow me away but it did do enough to keep me interested in the series and I will be moving onto Syndicate next which apparently fixes some of the issues I had with Black Flag, especially the real life segments which are now relegated to short cut scenes instead of lengthy playable sections. Hopefully Ubisoft will scrap the whole simulation angle in the next game and just stick to being period themed throughout.    … Expand
  33. WKKONG
    Apr 7, 2015
    6
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I personally think that AC IV was quite a good game, but there was just something about the game that frustrates me a lot. When I first played the game, I didn't really know what it was about, because it was the first AC game I had ever played. When I got to the mission Diving For Medicines, the game lagged a lot (it already lagged since the beginning), and it was very strange. After I tried to restart the computer, I saw a message saying something about a damaged save game and that I had to start again. I started again, but it kept happening, around the same time during my progress of the game. Then it happened a THIRD time, and I was just fed up with it, and thought it was the worst AC game ever, even though I had not played the others. The lagging also lowered the gameplay experience, and it made free running, parkour, and fighting much harder. At the end, I just uninstalled the game.

    There are still some things good about the game, such as the ship boarding or the free roam, but the others were just annoying. I thought back of a mission I spent nearly an hour and fifteen minutes on, which was Nothing is True. I mean, why do you need to knock out the Assassin's stealthily? I don't mean to kill them, but Kenway could have just walked up to one and told her he wanted to meed James Kidd (her real name's Mary Read (SPOILERS)) as he did in the novel!

    The mission mentioned above is still quite hard and makes me angry when it comes to thinking of it, and by the name of the mission, it sounds quite exciting and full of action and adventure and all that, but it's all about knocking out Assassin's and parkour and skill and stealth , and nothing related to "Nothing is True"!

    Therefore, I consider you download the game via Ocean of Games (which is legit but takes quite a long time) so that you don't have to waste a lot of money on this game, if you do agree with me. I still encourage you to try playing it and see if it is fun playing or not.    … Expand
  34. soneill34
    Nov 27, 2017
    6
    The game itself is perfectly good, but the PC port is complete garbage. An i5 with a GTX1070 should not struggle to output a 4 year old game at medium settings.
  35. Soullex
    Nov 15, 2022
    6
    Neden bu oyuna bu kadar çoşuluyor anlamıyorum. Hayır yani 3. oyunda gemi mekaniklerinin aynısı var. Üstüne eklediği birkaç şey dışında hiçbir şey yok, ama insanlar 3'ü sevmeyip bunu seviyorlar.
  36. Shimmeywill
    Feb 20, 2020
    6
    While the story and on foot gameplay didn't engage me, the ship gameplay and combat made for a solid time waster of a game. Chill to just wander around the map collecting stuff.
  37. Hochbichler
    Mar 20, 2020
    6
    Assassin's Creed IV: Black flag is the sixth major installment of the famous stealth action adventure series. I find the setting of this game is very interesting: the Age of Sail, the pirates, West Indies. The stealth/combat system (on land) gets boring and repetitive very quickly. The sailing side of the game is by far the best part of it, although even here would I welcome more shipAssassin's Creed IV: Black flag is the sixth major installment of the famous stealth action adventure series. I find the setting of this game is very interesting: the Age of Sail, the pirates, West Indies. The stealth/combat system (on land) gets boring and repetitive very quickly. The sailing side of the game is by far the best part of it, although even here would I welcome more ship diversity, more upgrades etc. The sea can also get a bit crowded for my taste at times. Naval battles are a lot of fun as is the whaling minigame (criticised by the PETA thugs, of course). Shanties are a brilliant idea and great collective items, specially in contrast to the useless animus fragments. The graphics is pretty good for 2013 game, but the colours seem a bit dull. The font is quite pleasant. The difficulty of this game can be a problem: objectively it is just too easy. The story is interesting for the first half of the game, then it gets partially ruined by pathos and SJW crap. The part of the game that takes place outside of the animus is interesting, but only to people familiar with the AC world/story. Sadly this game contains plenty of greedy microtransactions and equally plenty of SJW crap. Both single player DLCs are perfect examples of that.

    This is a game with a lot of appeal for me, but several unfortunate decision somewhat ruined the experience for me. Final Verdict: 60 %    … Expand
  38. samtoy3
    Aug 30, 2023
    6
    Ana hikayesi ortalama altındaydı, beğenmedim. Abstergo hikayesinin güzel potansiyeli vardı Shaun ve Rebeccayla ama işlenememiş. Yan görevlerde Assassin kontratlarında da hikayeler vardı ama 5 hikayeden sadece sevdiği adam tapınakçı olan kadının hikayesi aklımda kalmış. (aksanlı konuşuyordu ondan olabilir.) Saga hikayesinden umutluydum ama o da potansiyeli olup kullanılamamış bir hikayeAna hikayesi ortalama altındaydı, beğenmedim. Abstergo hikayesinin güzel potansiyeli vardı Shaun ve Rebeccayla ama işlenememiş. Yan görevlerde Assassin kontratlarında da hikayeler vardı ama 5 hikayeden sadece sevdiği adam tapınakçı olan kadının hikayesi aklımda kalmış. (aksanlı konuşuyordu ondan olabilir.) Saga hikayesinden umutluydum ama o da potansiyeli olup kullanılamamış bir hikaye olmuş. Hikaye konusunda oyun ortalamanın altında, hiçbir kısımda aman şimdi ne olacak diye meraklandıramıyor. Grafikleri ilk başta çok kartonumsu ve mat geldi ama sonrasında alıştım ve güzel görünmeye başladı. Haritalar ise çok tekdüze olmuş, düz bir koridorda ilerliyoruz hissi veriyor tâbi 2-3 tanesi hariç. Oynanışa gelirsek, gemi kullanımı gayet zevkli fakat bordolama kısmı sıkıcı olmuş. Dövüş sistemi o kadar basit ki tek tuş spamlayarak neredeyse herkesi kesiyorsunuz, sanki oyun sizin yerinize oynuyor, bazende düşmana fokus olmuyor ve saçma sapan dövüşler dönüyor. Avlanma sistemi karada çok basit fakat denizde gayet başarılı olmuş. Kendimize yaptığımız geliştirmeler pek bi fark yaratmıyor ama gemiye yaptıklarımız çok etkili oluyor. Oyundaki kostümlerde güzel yapılmış. Bana göre oyunun en saçma kısımlar ise haritada belirli ana görevleri yapmadıkça özgür değiliz, oyunun sonlarına doğru açılan mekanikler var, nedenini anlamadım. Oyun AC3'ten bir tık daha iyi, fazlası değil. 6/10… Expand
  39. hileger
    Oct 19, 2022
    6
    Не понимаю любовь к этой игре гринд один сплошной ну сюжет неплох но не более юби парашники лучше б сделали ммо а сделали ммм
  40. phantlower
    Nov 25, 2020
    6
    Tek kelimeyle berbat bir hikaye anlatımı ve karakter anlatımı oyundaki hiçbir karakteri hatırlamıyorum sadece gemi savaşları için 6 puan aldı daha fazlası kesinlikle olamaz
  41. vova22379
    Dec 18, 2021
    6
    ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
  42. delaware80
    Feb 28, 2022
    6
    AC IV: Black flag is the first game of the AC franchise that I ever have played.
    I many aspects the game is very interesting: story, gameplay, graphics, sound, setting.
    But I am not a fan of battles at the sea.
  43. tufekciero
    Mar 12, 2021
    6
    BRONZ zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
  44. F3T1W
    Aug 27, 2021
    6
    Addictive game, different from the setting of the series, the main pleasure is brought by battles on ships
  45. zyllus
    Mar 3, 2022
    6
    This is one of the most beloved games in the franchise for the fans but I dislike this game. You are a pirate and doing piraty things like stabby-stab and raising the sea level by nanometers by blasting everything that you can lay your eyes sailing around the vast seas. The maps are not well made and all the exploration was mostly sea-based which was tedious to get from Point A to Point B.This is one of the most beloved games in the franchise for the fans but I dislike this game. You are a pirate and doing piraty things like stabby-stab and raising the sea level by nanometers by blasting everything that you can lay your eyes sailing around the vast seas. The maps are not well made and all the exploration was mostly sea-based which was tedious to get from Point A to Point B. Edward's character progression was very bad, though having no training as an assassin he can do all the maneuvers. A small training video in his childhood would have plugged that gap. The worst part of the game is that you are suddenly pulled out of the Animus and have to work around in the Abstergo office which looks great visually but the tasks are super boring and tedious. There are like five outfits and none of them look great. The only nail which it hits right is the music and sea shanties. Taunting the soldiers was hilarious and dual-wield swords were not at all utilized properly. The ending connects to the beginning of AC 3 which I loved.… Expand
  46. GPReS
    Nov 12, 2014
    5
    It seems quite fun and intriguing in the beginning, but... then you remember that Desmond is dead and frankly speaking the story is not that mystically fun anymore, than you start to notice that you've played 40+hrs of the game and the story is completed for 12% only, and the game itself - 40%... and you already fed up of this boring need-for-speed like ships (after full upgrade), hardIt seems quite fun and intriguing in the beginning, but... then you remember that Desmond is dead and frankly speaking the story is not that mystically fun anymore, than you start to notice that you've played 40+hrs of the game and the story is completed for 12% only, and the game itself - 40%... and you already fed up of this boring need-for-speed like ships (after full upgrade), hard coded and scripted legendary ships, boring ship fights (as you can kick all asses without significant efforts) and all the other boring and repetitive things. The last so much boring part was Brotherhood, and once again they decided to do this... Unfinished game without soul and creativity...… Expand
  47. d__b
    Dec 24, 2013
    5
    Basic of making next game in the series is improving on previous games. But Ubi managed to get it backward. Even if resulting game is still somewhat decent, it's still step backward in almost all areas.

    Even flag feature of this game sea combat, got wrose than in AC3. Even if combat system got expanded, it's irrelevant since sea fights are so easy now, and storms no longer cause waves    Basic of making next game in the series is improving on previous games. But Ubi managed to get it backward. Even if resulting game is still somewhat decent, it's still step backward in almost all areas.

    Even flag feature of this game sea combat, got wrose than in AC3. Even if combat system got expanded, it's irrelevant since sea fights are so easy now, and storms no longer cause waves big enough to matter(which was best part of sea combat in AC3, in my opinion). Yes, combat is enjoyable, but less so than it was in previous game. Also, "travel speed" at sea despite being "Animus-side speed to make travel fast" still maes most travels between points few minutes of boring screen staring.

    You remember hunting or crafting from AC3? Well, now hunting got reduced to "hunt 2 of each kind of animals, craft one thing per animal, forget about it". Harpooning is new minigame, I'm not so sure if it's good minigame, so in that case it might be good that you only need to do it few times per animal.

    Hideout present since AC2 is here too, it's big, but upgrading it is pretty much irrelevant, only serving as money sink. What's more, none of vanity collectibles actually affect any part of the world. You can upgrade your ship, sure, but it's like buying upgrades to yourself. Whole economy system present since AC2 is gone.
    Brotherhood gave us "your people", and here fleet takes this role, but it's bloody SimCity all again, play with "friends" or anything will take ages to do. Because Ubi couln't find good reason for their piracy-detergent of online requirement, they just turned part of game into "social" game.

    When you think difficulty hit rock bottom, here comes out another AC game to prove you wrong and define new bottom. In some cases, enemies will even ignore you murdering one of them right in front of them. Killing enemies with gun rarely makes anyone react at all. Only good change in that department is whistling now you have to whistle for a while before guard decides to og investigate, making picking them off one by one less reliable.

    Older games used to have optional missions that were one big jumping puzzle. If you strain youself, you might find one or at most two of those in this game. Historical places? Not in this setting. Beuitifull cities? Not in this setting. Huge buildings to climb? Not in this setting. Collectibles? Well, some are hidden. Most of them are at sea and main challenge is to not say "screw it" and not spend hours sailing from point to point to jump ship, swim to island, pick it up from ground, get back to sihp and repeat.

    Characters? Hmph. Your out-of-Animus character is nobody, he does not speak, has no motivation, could not find any mirror so not sure if he even has actual body. He's just getting used by everyone around him, like a tool. As for in-Animus... Ezio started as a rash youth, and grew. Connor started as kid, and grew a lot. Edward starts as badass without clear motivation or character, and remains as such pretty much whole game.

    Story there is no story. There is some pirating "do what we want" story, small Assassin substory, but overall, it's just "do random things and maybe you stumble across something relevant to this or that plot".

    It's PC version, ported from console, so optimization is terrible, and graphic settings are lacking. There is no gamma correction, so everything is so freaking bright that you just can't see some things during the day. But, at least they enabled mouse control so you can actually select tings on map with mouse, instead of moving map around to center relevant icon and select it.

    Overall, it's not bad game, if it was not part of AC series but standalone pirate game, it could be decent 8 or even 9, depending how "assassiny" elements of game would be substituted. But as part of series, it's worst Creed ever released. So far.    … Expand
  48. Jackl3
    Dec 11, 2013
    5
    Excellent atmosphere.

    After playing all the Assassins Creeds, this felt a little different but not enough. After destroying a few ships, seeing the same surrender animation, the same faced enemies... it's breaking the immersion. Terrible re-used and over-use of the same cut-scenes/animations. Nothing changes, nothing is a challenge. Missions are the same as usual. Combat is    Excellent atmosphere.

    After playing all the Assassins Creeds, this felt a little different but not enough.

    After destroying a few ships, seeing the same surrender animation, the same faced enemies... it's breaking the immersion.

    Terrible re-used and over-use of the same cut-scenes/animations. Nothing changes, nothing is a challenge.

    Missions are the same as usual.

    Combat is still so-so.

    5/10 in my opinion.    … Expand
  49. WiiDiEs
    Nov 26, 2013
    5
    Game is great.No questions asked but the optimization is one of the worst i saw in my life.This game is beautifull but tehnically it barely runs.And it has a short story.
  50. Sabatasso
    Dec 4, 2013
    5
    Yet another timesink from with the AC stamp on it. The graphics is quite fine and even though the animations are mor jittery than previous releases it looks good overall. The story isn't really bad but it isn't very good either and you're very confined during story missions, unlike the original.

    The naval part of the game is very shallow yet probably the best part about the game. Enemy    Yet another timesink from with the AC stamp on it. The graphics is quite fine and even though the animations are mor jittery than previous releases it looks good overall. The story isn't really bad but it isn't very good either and you're very confined during story missions, unlike the original.

    The naval part of the game is very shallow yet probably the best part about the game. Enemy ships have a single hit location and once you've damaged it enough you can board it. Sounds arcade-ish? You're right, it is. The waters are littered with floating cargo and survivors, and I mean LITTERED. They're everywhere. Enemy ships pop in large amounts so if you're in the mood for some pirating, you can literaly hang around outside any harbour and shoot anything that moves... and there's a lot of movement. Too much to be honest. The boarding is incredibly boring and repetitive, so you'll soon resort to settle for half the loot and just sink the bastards. With a few upgrades you can sink 2-3 ships in the same time that one boarding sequence takes so you'll actually earn a lot more that way. The only reason to board is to heal your ship mid-combat.

    Otherwise the game is more or less like the prequel.    … Expand
  51. gletara
    Nov 26, 2013
    5
    Ahh a new AC game, remember when ubisoft stated they are putting a lot of effort in Assassin Creed 3? As Ubisoft claimed, the scheduler used for the rendering was ‘rewritten from the ground up and in AC4, the engine will use all the cores it needs until it sees that using more cores brings no more gain. Well it appears that ubisoft lied once more. My I5 2500k so call recommended processorAhh a new AC game, remember when ubisoft stated they are putting a lot of effort in Assassin Creed 3? As Ubisoft claimed, the scheduler used for the rendering was ‘rewritten from the ground up and in AC4, the engine will use all the cores it needs until it sees that using more cores brings no more gain. Well it appears that ubisoft lied once more. My I5 2500k so call recommended processor peg at 100% on 1 core and 5-15% on the rest, 2013 game running single core how awesome is that.After all optimizing game on the pc are not ubisoft priority anyway as stated them self. Good thing is naval combat is nothing short of amazing and revolutionary, a major improvement on AC3 which i do like if it isn't crippled by performance issue. Theme and setting are done very well, lush vegetation in stunning detail. They said the game would perform well even on low end machine, an overclocked 560Ti is apparently getting 40 fps on lowest setting and 800x600 resolution with vysyn turn off. Ashame really this could have been the best AC game yet after AC2 if it is actually enjoyable.… Expand
  52. HEXHUN
    Nov 22, 2013
    5
    AC: Black Flag was announced like a big break through for the series. Unfortunately it fails this in so many ways.
    The single player content is carried out very badly. The multiplayer is totally the same, lacks the sight of the smallest innovations. It was satisfying two games ago... now it feels like Call of Duty...
    The game mechanism are so dumb down, even a monkey could play the    AC: Black Flag was announced like a big break through for the series. Unfortunately it fails this in so many ways.
    The single player content is carried out very badly. The multiplayer is totally the same, lacks the sight of the smallest innovations. It was satisfying two games ago... now it feels like Call of Duty...

    The game mechanism are so dumb down, even a monkey could play the game. A lot of good features from the predecessor games are missing. Specially from the combat... this game was build around it, but still this is the most unpretending part of the game... Everything that was good in AC3's naval combat, devs just trashed all of it.

    - There aren't any diffirences between ships... a 3500 tonne man of war will be as fast as Edward's small ship. The legendary ships are some kind of freaking jokes... they accelerate at 80 m/s and they are equipped with jet engines. WTF?
    - Canon reload time is so low... it takes (even for the man of war's 100 canons) only 3 seconds... just spam full boardside volleys, that is the only thing you will do in combat. Frigates and man of war ships have some future tech gatling canons... they can fire up to 5 volleys in quick succession (under ~10 seconds)
    - You can no longer change canon rounds like in AC3.
    - Ship sails no longer takes dmg, chain-shots lost there whole function... oh wait they've got a new one, now they STUN ships like in damn WoW...
    -This game is so arcade... you have the option to repair your ship AND loose all you notority after you board a ship.

    Melee combat sucks also... Thee E is your ultimate key used for anything... counter, dodge, parry. HP potions removed entirely.
    Edward regain heatlh automatically.. The fast-travel option added to the game, it has some nice side effects too, it can be used anytime, even in combat. Also recharges your full ammo supply (smokebombs, darts too) Eagle vision now tags enemies like the annoying wallhack in Far Cry 3. Assassinte missions are so arcade, you can run straight to your target, don't worry about being detected, because it's no longer cause desync. (mission fail, not even in story mission)

    The world looks big on the map, but its feels empty even towns and also lacks detail. Side activities are so few and even those are so boring, just a tons of ridiculously easy assassination contracts.

    This game won't provide any fun for whose played the older games. Black Flag is a huge disapointment. Made for 10 yrs old console-kids. This game probably don't deserve a medicore score.    … Expand
  53. Reidlos65
    Nov 24, 2013
    5
    Good game hindered by the Poorest PC optimization ive seen in a few years. Top of the line rigs hitting 45 to maybe 60 if your lucky? Nah don't think so. The game is fun and story is good considering this is outside the trilogy
  54. mphst
    Nov 28, 2013
    5
    Same mistakes were made again like AC3. Soulness and Nonsense game story is boring. Ubisoft must understand that, last two games is not AC game. Maybe expansion pack of rookie assasins but, i didnt see any assasins whole two games. they need to get rid of being "callofdutiism". they didnt mess up any game like this, even PoP series.
  55. N8C8
    Dec 28, 2013
    5
    As a sequel, it's only ok. Not enough new material was brought to the table. Sure, there were the ships... but those were also in the previous game. I wanted to like this game, but it seemed like way too much was ripped straight from Assassin's Creed 3. I felt like I was playing DLC rather than an entire new game. On it's own however, it's an above average game. If this is your firstAs a sequel, it's only ok. Not enough new material was brought to the table. Sure, there were the ships... but those were also in the previous game. I wanted to like this game, but it seemed like way too much was ripped straight from Assassin's Creed 3. I felt like I was playing DLC rather than an entire new game. On it's own however, it's an above average game. If this is your first experience with this franchise, by all means, go ahead and pick it up. However if you're a returning fan, it's not worth it. Not right now anyways. It's worth playing, but NOT at full price.… Expand
  56. NightFurry
    Jan 3, 2014
    5
    I bought all the AC games because i love them the action is amazing and the storyline is great but i didn't even think about buying this one from templars (AC 1) they got to the revolution (AC 3) and the to pirates this is just stupid they ran out of ideas and they put this one pirates in a game about assassins this is disappointing I loved all the other games but not this one
  57. 2beens
    Jan 22, 2014
    5
    The only really good thing about this game is its Graphics. Apart from that, its too arcade, and obviously made for kids. Lots of missions are repetative and veeeery boring (especialy "tail" missions, oh my god, those are really painfully boring). Alose, this time, unlike older Assassin Creed games, upgrading your hideout has only estetical value....This game sucks!
  58. wizilinx
    Sep 24, 2014
    5
    What shame.. No game can be good when it performs like a dog.. I have loads of games (similar to this) and they run smoothly without faffing around. I just don't understand why a games company can do this??? If you look on the web you will see loads and loads of people wanting to fix time lags!!

    Second, the game gets off to a bad start.. The first mission you will probably end up    What shame.. No game can be good when it performs like a dog.. I have loads of games (similar to this) and they run smoothly without faffing around. I just don't understand why a games company can do this??? If you look on the web you will see loads and loads of people wanting to fix time lags!!

    Second, the game gets off to a bad start.. The first mission you will probably end up looking for help. I spent two hours roaming around doing nothing. When I read up on advice it directs you to go into a "red area" which you would assume was unavailable.

    Game gets better and better but normally I would have stopped wanting a refund!!!!!!!!    … Expand
  59. ragerino
    Mar 6, 2014
    5
    The game mechanics and controls of the sandbox are as bad as they have ever been. The pirate ship battles have been nice in the beginning, but fun faded away as soon as they got very repetitive. Especially when the bad controls and game mechanics get in your way. Imagine attacking a huge ship because you need the goods it's carrying. After a long fight, you need to kill 15 members of theThe game mechanics and controls of the sandbox are as bad as they have ever been. The pirate ship battles have been nice in the beginning, but fun faded away as soon as they got very repetitive. Especially when the bad controls and game mechanics get in your way. Imagine attacking a huge ship because you need the goods it's carrying. After a long fight, you need to kill 15 members of the crew and get the flag down. With almost no health you manage it to climb the ship mast and just before you reach the flag the protagonist jumps randomly down the mast and kills himself. Those moments have been frustrating to me. I can not imagine how a reviewer could give this game almost the same or even better score than GTA-V got.

    I could imagine that Ubisofts upcoming title Watch Dogs will be based on the same crappy sandbox. This time I'm going to wait on some user reviews before I buy this game. I don't trust professional reviews any more.    … Expand
  60. monroe076
    Mar 11, 2014
    5
    The franchise really jumped the shark with this one as assassinations and history are no longer the foundation of the gameplay. Now you basically have a glorified mini-game (sailing around in the Jackdaw) and collectables as the centrepiece which is as tedious as it sounds. The story is straight out of a Uwe Boll film, and I swear you can almost imagine the voice actors flinching whenThe franchise really jumped the shark with this one as assassinations and history are no longer the foundation of the gameplay. Now you basically have a glorified mini-game (sailing around in the Jackdaw) and collectables as the centrepiece which is as tedious as it sounds. The story is straight out of a Uwe Boll film, and I swear you can almost imagine the voice actors flinching when doing their third rate lines. Not that this franchise ever had a satisfying story it was always more about the characters. That being said I never connected with this character, previous protagonists especially Ezio had a personal matter setting them off into the world, this guy just wants to earn some money. I mean, that's nice for him but it doesn't make me sympathize or immerse.

    As a cherry on top this game coming from a franchise which used to proud itself in its presentation of history contains almost no historical facts at all. Like, in the first 2 cities you have maybe 3 or 4 buildings you can check in the animus and that's pretty much it. All in all, this game made me really sad because of its pampering to the lowest common denominator.    … Expand
  61. Hydodyn
    Nov 20, 2014
    5
    The game looks good. Ran fine on my machine, with some odd glitches here and there. Never gamebreaking though.

    The sailing is fun. Boarding a ship is fun. As is blowing a ship to smithereens. What isn't fun is on-rails missions with inexplicably-placed guards, nonsensical fail conditions, telescopic x-ray vision enemies and the player character randomly deciding to end it all by    The game looks good. Ran fine on my machine, with some odd glitches here and there. Never gamebreaking though.

    The sailing is fun. Boarding a ship is fun. As is blowing a ship to smithereens. What isn't fun is on-rails missions with inexplicably-placed guards, nonsensical fail conditions, telescopic x-ray vision enemies and the player character randomly deciding to end it all by plunging to his death from the top of a Man o' War while you were trying to make him climb down in a more normal fashion.

    Good: Sailing
    Bad: Movement and its controls, enemy placement in missions
    Ugly: Story missions in which you do neither pirating not assassinating (most of them)    … Expand
  62. Thixtalk
    Feb 16, 2018
    5
    Assassin's Creed: Black Flag is a very bad game. This game have nothing good to stay you in the game.
    Let's begin with start:
    1. Graphics. Graphics have not passed the test of time and it is very terrible. Recently, I quietly played in Max Payne 1-2, but in AS IV everything is very bad and not playable, the character just dummies. 2. Gameplay. It's very easy gameplay for children. And    Assassin's Creed: Black Flag is a very bad game. This game have nothing good to stay you in the game.
    Let's begin with start:
    1. Graphics. Graphics have not passed the test of time and it is very terrible. Recently, I quietly played in Max Payne 1-2, but in AS IV everything is very bad and not playable, the character just dummies.
    2. Gameplay. It's very easy gameplay for children. And it isn't interesting. Even swimming on ships they managed to make boring
    3. Story. Disgusting, terrible, frustrating, boring, not interesting. The game does not have charismatic or interesting characters.The very history is developing very slowly.
    4. Parkour. Since AS 2, nothing is changed.
    5. Additional tasks. As it usually happens in the AS, I didn't find any interesting tasks.    … Expand
  63. Harbin_jer
    Oct 1, 2018
    5
    Uhhhhh. Am I the only one perplexed by the amazing reviews of this game? No one else was frustrated with the movements? climbing and jumping on everything but what you want? Granted your running. Never getting to finish an enemy because your character highlights another character before you can finish the one you have disabled? What about ship fights and not being able to see when enemiesUhhhhh. Am I the only one perplexed by the amazing reviews of this game? No one else was frustrated with the movements? climbing and jumping on everything but what you want? Granted your running. Never getting to finish an enemy because your character highlights another character before you can finish the one you have disabled? What about ship fights and not being able to see when enemies are about to attack so you can't counter. Or when you finish a memory and only than do you see the optional objectives and you get an 80% sync so you basically replay every memory at least twice. The memory where you have to kill the captain from the rope swing I will probably never get 100% sync even after trying 20 times. Visiting old friends optional objective is completely insane this will be my fourth time replaying that memory. And the countless times the counter attack doesn't work even though your pounding the key through your keyboard. I will most likely have to replace my keyboard. This game has been nothing but a huge frustrating stress. I haven't been able to enjoy this game at all just determined to finish. I really dislike you Ubisoft so much so that I go out of my way to make a review about this game.… Expand
  64. AlirezASlayeR
    Jun 1, 2020
    5
    the game has it's moments and Edward is a cool character but my main gripe with this game is that at no point in this game did I feel like an assassin!!! It was JUST a pirate game with some forced long ass cutscenes in the middle to somehow link the game to the franchise. It's an alright game overall but very little to link it to the franchise.
  65. jingnwo
    Oct 1, 2020
    5
    Graphic is great but too boring story line. Very tiring to finish the whole story.
  66. StarkAgentos
    Jun 10, 2022
    5
    Управление улучшено. Графика очень яркая, сочная и красивая. Оптимизация ужасна, как обычно. Современная видеокарта не тянет игру в 60 ФПС на максималках. Также стоит на лок на 60 ФПС, который нельзя снять. Автосохранения очень кривые. Геймплей совсем чуть-чуть изменён.Управление улучшено. Графика очень яркая, сочная и красивая. Оптимизация ужасна, как обычно. Современная видеокарта не тянет игру в 60 ФПС на максималках. Также стоит на лок на 60 ФПС, который нельзя снять. Автосохранения очень кривые. Геймплей совсем чуть-чуть изменён.
  67. mustado
    Oct 21, 2022
    5
    jogo da ubisoft (isso é um defeito). mas a historia é razoavelmente ""boa""
  68. Blackcompany
    Dec 22, 2013
    4
    A good open world pirate game that could have been better, hampered by the same tired, frustrating "mission structure" we see in every AC game. The constant need to do exactly as Ubisoft demands hinders the fun in exploring this visually gorgeous game world, and the frustrating mission types, such as Eavesdropping and Tailing, are far, far too frequent, and over-used. The weather system isA good open world pirate game that could have been better, hampered by the same tired, frustrating "mission structure" we see in every AC game. The constant need to do exactly as Ubisoft demands hinders the fun in exploring this visually gorgeous game world, and the frustrating mission types, such as Eavesdropping and Tailing, are far, far too frequent, and over-used. The weather system is also frustrating, as the developers tend to overuse storms on the open sea in order to make missions feel more "dramatic."

    Black Flag is a game that would have been far, far better, had it not needed the Assassin's Creed name attached at all. This is Assassin's Creed ruining what could otherwise have been a great pirate game.    … Expand
  69. Budget_Security
    Dec 25, 2015
    4
    After the fairly decent AssCreed3, and considering the many positive reviews for this game, I made the mistake of having slightly higher expectations than usual. This unsurprisingly led to some disappointment (yes, sadly going against the trend in most other reviews). But once I recalibrated my expectations to “standard AssCreed fare”, it was not too bad.

    The story is messy and silly.    After the fairly decent AssCreed3, and considering the many positive reviews for this game, I made the mistake of having slightly higher expectations than usual. This unsurprisingly led to some disappointment (yes, sadly going against the trend in most other reviews). But once I recalibrated my expectations to “standard AssCreed fare”, it was not too bad.

    The story is messy and silly. It has some good parts but most of it is mediocre - overall not as good as AssCreed3 in my opinion. I have the suspicion casual or younger gamers may like it more. It sorely lacks atmosphere when compared to games like Dishonored or The Witcher or films like 'Pirates of the Caribbean'. The script is full of plot holes (even more than usual). Half of the game is fairly serious and makes some sense, but the other half is silly and does not make any sense. This inconsistency harms immersion. The main character is decent, but does not quite have the charisma of Ezio or Haytham from previous games.

    The missions and gameplay built on the story are very bland and repetitive. Almost any potentially interesting story scenario is reduced to a handful of copy-paste follow/sneak/kill/eavesdrop gameplay designs. It seems like the devs were slightly lazier than usual - AssCreed3 missions were far from perfect, but still seemed slightly more varied and hand-crafted.

    The difficulty balance of the gameplay is poor. AI detection feels arcade and inconsistent. Stealth areas are severely overpopulated with guards, meaning you are forced to look at the minimap all the time to have any chance of avoiding detection. If you don't reload checkpoints often, open combat is nearly inevitable, which in turn is far too easy. This makes trying to play stealth frustrating, because the odds feel unfairly stacked against you, and it is always so much easier to just fight and kill everyone. But fighting gets boring quickly - you just spam attacks, then counter when prompted, and repeat that indefinitely.

    The sandbox gameplay has been brought to the fore, but like the main missions, it is very arcade, bland, and repetitive. The open world is large, but most places all look the same. Compared to AC3, there seems to be slightly less content overall, though still more than enough. The problem is a lack of quality, not quantity. Still things like naval battles and boarding enemy ships are novel for a while and work fairly reliably, which is more than can be said of naval battles in a Total War game (Shogun II etc). The sea shanties (songs) are a nice touch, and possibly the single best feature in this game.

    Graphics are the best yet for an AssCreed game, and the first in my opinion to just about match those of Crysis 1 (released 6 years earlier). The water out at sea looks particularly good. The visual quality does not hold up everywhere though - quite a few ugly meshes and textures here and there. The default settings are poorly optimised - you need to manually tweak the settings to get the best visuals while keeping the FPS high. Ship physics are decent and must feel amazing to the average console peasant, but if you have an eye for realism and have been on a real ship, it still leaves much to be desired. Your 150-ton brig behaves like it has the mass and manoeuvrability of a modern olympic racing yacht combined with the stability of a modern river ferry (complete with bow thrusters). You can sail straight into the wind with no speed loss. Enemy ships also handle like powerboats. In some ways the sailing physics were more realistic in AC3 - you could not sail into the wind, and it felt slightly more natural, though admittedly less reliable (momentarily flying ships etc).

    PC controls are as bad as usual. They are not game-breaking, but they do work against you - I messed up a lot of missions because my character would do the wrong thing like randomly climbing a wall. A few times just before successfully capturing a huge enemy ship, I would fall from a mast to my death due to glitched controls. The checkpoint system has its usual annoyances and reloads sometimes caused technical problems like missing quest items (requiring quiting to desktop and reloading). I encountered more bugs and glitches and generally rushed content here than in any previous AssCreed game.

    Overall, for me, AC4 is a mediocre AssCreed game that wasted a lot of potential. It is not a “bad” game, but it does not deserve any of the hyped reviews. I can only recommend it at the steam sale price.    … Expand
  70. irmscher
    Mar 19, 2018
    4
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Well. What can I say... this is my 1st Assasins Creed game (few hours into very first Assasins Creed doesn't count), and probably the last one. Pirate theme and sailing is the only thing that kept me playing and reach 71% main mission completion. After that the "assassins" part of the game just become unbearable with all those repetitive missions and **** up controls. The main story is quite good up until around middle of the game and then just becomes MEH. I don't have more time to waste on this "fun simulation" crap.… Expand
  71. sensuality
    Nov 19, 2013
    4
    really good that there are in the game so the naval battles, because otherwise contained in AC3 and sameness more so this time worsened. the killer already starts strong and does not even need training to matar.fora the pessima optimization that in certain parts falls to 17 fps.ubisoft shot himself in the foot with this game, that really turning this fighter nickel
  72. NavyEurofighter
    Nov 21, 2013
    4
    I love this game, but the Pc version has a lot of Framerate issue and Ubisoft said they will not patch it for economic reasons, what a software house. PLEASE DON'T SPEND ANY MONEY ON IT, UBISOFT MUST CRY FOR THIS
  73. atatyu
    Feb 5, 2014
    4
    All the missions i hate gathered in one game. Stalking a guy, listening a conversation. Like these aren't enough there are stalking missions with ships. Yes being a pirate and a captain is fun but if you don't play the missions. Another non surprising poor game by Ubisoft.
  74. Rezaee
    Feb 27, 2014
    4
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. assassin's creed Black flag was terrible.the story was terrible and so It was the gameplay.It was not even an assassin's creed!we were not an assassin,we were a pirate who stole an assassin's clothes. The gameplay on the sea was stupid.About the wind on the sea,I went every where to hide from the wind.where ever I went,for example I hide my ship behind a big rock on the sea but the wind was still moving my ship.In real world that could never happen.the only reason I gave 4 to this game was blackbear death scene.the whole game was terrible.… Expand
  75. Tatzen
    Mar 14, 2014
    4
    I had never played an Assassin's Creed game before this one. I tried it because I heard good things about it, and I really enjoy the swashbuckling theme. Search for treasure and pilot my own ship? Sounds good! It's a pretty game and has lots to explore.

    But unfortunately, I was quite disappointed in this game. The movement was fairly clunky, even though my character was quite    I had never played an Assassin's Creed game before this one. I tried it because I heard good things about it, and I really enjoy the swashbuckling theme. Search for treasure and pilot my own ship? Sounds good! It's a pretty game and has lots to explore.

    But unfortunately, I was quite disappointed in this game. The movement was fairly clunky, even though my character was quite athletic and could climb walls, walk along tree branches and tightropes.

    The combat isn't fun at all. I found it rather and boring. And the computer AI was pretty ridiculous. Often times I'd think "I'll run away and climb this building, the guards will never find me there!" Just to find that as soon as I reached the rooftop to get away, maybe even jump rooftop-to-rooftop, the guard was ALREADY on the roof waiting for me. Hardly realistic that a guard can not only climb as well as my master assassin, but he knew where I was going so beamed himself up to the roof before I could even get there.

    Other games have much more realistic enemies. I guess in this game I'm supposed to reload the game if I make a mistake and am discovered or chased by guards? That's not a fun way to play.

    I didn't like the "modern time" alternate story either. Why is this even there? I'm supposed to be a pirate assassin, but actually no, I'm some computer programmer from the future? Confused me and wrecked the immersion. I don't feel for my character since every action is already predestined and I'm just reliving a past story. My character is essentially immortal since any failures I make are just "rescyncronized" and reset to try again. So don't worry, jump off the cliff or fight the shark with bare hands, your character is just a simulation.

    I never finished it or even got much of the way in. I just wasn't enjoying myself at all, and I don't play games that are bad for the most part, just to earn the rare good parts. Games should be fun and keep you engaged throughout.    … Expand
  76. Iluvatar21
    May 5, 2014
    4
    HOW I RATE: 10-9 score: perfect or near-perfect don't exist; 8 score: one of the best games ever. Top score; 7-6 score: great but not one of the best; 5-below score: serious flaws.
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    Apart from being a pirate simulator, which it pulls off quite well, AC4 is a poorly optimized console port of a once great series.
  77. danstew
    Feb 17, 2016
    4
    Not sure where to start. I seriously tried TWICE to get into this game, expecting to really enjoy it, as so many claim it to be one of the best ACs, along with the Ezio ones.
    But I simply can't, it wasn't fun for me.
    Let's go through it, starting with the good things: + Looks nice, both in town and at sea + Some nice new mechanics + The shanties your crew sings are a great touch and    Not sure where to start. I seriously tried TWICE to get into this game, expecting to really enjoy it, as so many claim it to be one of the best ACs, along with the Ezio ones.
    But I simply can't, it wasn't fun for me.
    Let's go through it, starting with the good things:
    + Looks nice, both in town and at sea
    + Some nice new mechanics
    + The shanties your crew sings are a great touch and made me smile a lot while at sea
    + Naval battles can be fun, even more so than in AC III
    + They did great with the pirate-history. Not as cliche as usual, no parrots on shoulders, no wooden leg and stuff on every pirate. I am rather certain I know the books they based this on, as a lot of the story-points of that subplot are rather correct, historically, and I liked that a lot.

    Now, the cons:
    - The story. This really sucks. So basically, you have the main character kill an Assassin he gets marooned with, kill him EASILY, and simply put on a bit of his outfit, becoming an assassin that way. So, this guy easily kills an assassin and kinda becomes one by putting out the clothes. Yes, he also has eagle vision, and I am sure there is an explanation that he secretly has the "assassin gene" or is the grandson of one, but before that was explained, I lost interest, it just feels weird and is rather sad, considering the previous games.
    - The main character. No personality, apart from him apparently being some kind of Jack Sparrow-type cool guy. I really liked Ezio, Altair, even Connor and Arno, but this guy, I couldn't care less about.
    - The missions. SOME tailing/eavesdrop/chase-missions can be fun. TOO many of them get frustrating and dull. Sail to a town. Talk to someone. Tail someone and listen to his conversation without being caught. Try again. Try again. Yay, checkpoint. Now sneak in and kill him. Rinse and repeat.
    - The "big story twist" about a certain person in game. This was so incredibly obvious from the start. I mean, how the heck am I supposed to believe no one noticed this (not spoiling it here) about a pirate, in a tightly-knit crew, on a ship, travelling, fighting, eating together for months? First time I saw him and heard him speak, it was so obvious, it was sad.
    - Diving. Nice change, maybe, but I never much liked diving in games, whether it was TR or this one. And here, it's mandatory - not only for a story quest where you first learn it, but also to PROGRESS. No, it's not optional.
    This "open world game" REQUIRED me to dive several times. Why? Because at some point, the game says "Stop. You can't do the next story-quest until you upgrade your ship". And to do that, you need to find blueprints, in some chest underwater. You can use the web to find out where. If you hate the diving (with overly aggressive sharks which attack you on sight and kill you quickly, while you don't have much breath in the first place), it sucks, because you won't be able to get those blueprints, upgrade your ship enough (thanks for giving me a choice there to try the blocked mission at least) in order to progress the story.
    - Your stronghold feels pointless and more like a money-sink
    - I don't think the game is well optimized. It works ok on my PC (W7, 16 gigs of RAM, i7, with a GTX 960 with 4 gigs of ram), but on the same system with an Nvidia GT 730, there were problems.
    - Still has some wonky controls, which sucks for jumping puzzles and chases.

    I am happy for those that truly think this is one of the best ACs, but I simply lost interest both times I tried to get into the game. The first time, it happened 3 hrs in (same repetitive side content, yawn, and another chase with no room for error there...one missstep, back to the checkpoint), the second time I played 6-7 hrs and then didnt wanna continue (see above, didn't wanna dive over and over to upgrade my ship just to continue the story).

    If this was a standalone pirate game with no AC added to it, like, I dunno "Davy Jones' Amazin Adventures" or "Swashbucklers of the Carribean", it'd be really nice, but as an AC game, it just isn't fun, and didn't grab me at all, sorry    … Expand
  78. CoreGamer1408
    Dec 1, 2022
    4
    I have played some AC games way back in the day on PS3. This is a free drop from Ubisoft Connect. The fundimental flaw of all AC games is that I am playing a game within a game. Taking a VR trip inside in a characters ancestors memories is kind of immersion breaking. This series would of worked without the sci-fi elements. I would of happily played an line of descendant assassinsI have played some AC games way back in the day on PS3. This is a free drop from Ubisoft Connect. The fundimental flaw of all AC games is that I am playing a game within a game. Taking a VR trip inside in a characters ancestors memories is kind of immersion breaking. This series would of worked without the sci-fi elements. I would of happily played an line of descendant assassins throughout the history.… Expand
  79. RomanGor
    Dec 14, 2019
    4
    Это просто унылая дрочильня, однотипные миссии, дерганая анимация, гг какой-то моральный урод, а про морские баталии я вообще молчу. Большего дрочева, чем морские сражения, я еще ни в одном асасине не встречал. Если что я прошел 1, 2 части и бразерхуд. Не знаю, чем 4-я часть всем нравится, как по мне, так унылое дно. Попробую себя заставить пройти ее до конца. И да, горите в аду юбики соЭто просто унылая дрочильня, однотипные миссии, дерганая анимация, гг какой-то моральный урод, а про морские баталии я вообще молчу. Большего дрочева, чем морские сражения, я еще ни в одном асасине не встречал. Если что я прошел 1, 2 части и бразерхуд. Не знаю, чем 4-я часть всем нравится, как по мне, так унылое дно. Попробую себя заставить пройти ее до конца. И да, горите в аду юбики со своим копировальным станком по производству дерьмовых ежегодных игр!!! Прошел до конца и могу сказать, что если бы вся игра была как последние 3 главы, то еще ничего. Но так как первые 3/4 игры - это настоящее дрочево, разбавленное тупорылыми морскими сражениями, то оценка только 4 из 10. 4 бала за красоту картинки и полную локализацию, с чем у юбиков никогда проблем не было.… Expand
  80. Graw960
    Apr 20, 2023
    4
    The game is dull, repetitive and the naval combat feels clunky and frustrating at times. The grind to achieve compulsory naval upgrades required for some missions definetly killed the game for me. Not to mention the ridiculous step back in stealth mechanics which, gameplay and lore-wise, should be the main focus of the franchise. Last note of demerit are the ludicrous plot holes in the main story
  81. JimCorbett
    Mar 10, 2014
    3
    I remember when Assassin's Creed was about story, sneaking, and planning. That time is long passed, and Black Flag is a prime showcase of that. The only reason this game could possibly get good reviews is because of blind fanboys upvoting the game simply because it's a pirate game.This is an action-oriented pirate simulation that has absolutely nothing to do with the Assassin's CreedI remember when Assassin's Creed was about story, sneaking, and planning. That time is long passed, and Black Flag is a prime showcase of that. The only reason this game could possibly get good reviews is because of blind fanboys upvoting the game simply because it's a pirate game.This is an action-oriented pirate simulation that has absolutely nothing to do with the Assassin's Creed franchise. The graphics are good but just about everything else isn't. Sound is terribly synced, especially when performing kills. The controls are slightly improved but still terrible. The optimization is beyond bad. The insane amount of context-sensitive controls and movements are incredibly frustrating, and have been throughout the whole series but Blag Flag just proves that Ubisoft has no intention whatsoever of fixing it. The story is laughable and will not interest you in the slightest and the modern day sequences are worse than ever. The gameplay is super repetitive with linear levels lining the campaign and a repetitive grind awaiting you at sea. This is the last straw for the AC series in my opinion. One of my favorite franchise has been ruined yet again by a a yearly development cycle and a greedy publisher. I'm not longer going to purchase this garbage and I highly suggest all of you do the same.… Expand
  82. Dvoraak
    Mar 8, 2014
    3
    Started out decently enough except right away you're climbing towers.... Tried to get passed that in the interest of fairness. Then, once the game really started, it stayed true to the AC form..... Climb a tower, fight a crowd. Really? After so many iterations they can't get passed this formula. Granted, I'm only an hour in but it's likely to be the only hour I give. They could'veStarted out decently enough except right away you're climbing towers.... Tried to get passed that in the interest of fairness. Then, once the game really started, it stayed true to the AC form..... Climb a tower, fight a crowd. Really? After so many iterations they can't get passed this formula. Granted, I'm only an hour in but it's likely to be the only hour I give. They could've (should've) shown me something new early on. Not just a new setting and steering a boat..... and climbing towers. Maybe AC should be called Tower Climber.… Expand
  83. matty_o
    May 14, 2014
    3
    Just stop making Assasin's Creed games already. Ubisoft have completely stuffed it up from AC3 already and this is no better. The nerve to take out the best part of AC3 (seafearing) and make it the premise of AC4 is just plain lazy and admittant to how bad the game is. Don't be fooled by the great graphics. The idiot-system where the player will climb over objects and laddersJust stop making Assasin's Creed games already. Ubisoft have completely stuffed it up from AC3 already and this is no better. The nerve to take out the best part of AC3 (seafearing) and make it the premise of AC4 is just plain lazy and admittant to how bad the game is. Don't be fooled by the great graphics. The idiot-system where the player will climb over objects and ladders unintentionally still exists. Yes, sprint and parkour are again the same fking button! Furthermore the completely unnecessary "keep close, don't be spotted but hurry up" missions begin within the first 30 minutes of the game already. What is this, an arcade game? I preferred AC1+2 with open world, thank you. There is no saving the franchise, it is a shocking mess. Rather remember the good old Desmond, Altair and Enzio.… Expand
  84. masterx1234
    Dec 29, 2013
    3
    Yet another unoptimized console port, and ubisoft said that assassins creed black flag would be better optimized than assassins creed 3. they lied to the PC gamers and thats why i will never buy another ubisoft games, because they obviously dont give a shi* about PC gamers.
  85. Alby94play
    Dec 12, 2013
    3
    Take ACIII, add guns, boats and some palm trees and TA-DA!! you have Black Flag... sad, really sad...
    Another garbage sequel for a series lost years ago...
  86. Ravage
    Nov 11, 2014
    3
    At first the game look incredible with it's scenery and other elements. But after playing it for a couple of hours, I realised something; this, to be honest, has got to be one of the worst Assassin's Creed games so far. It was constant sailing and stupid pirate **** having nothing to do with the original plot line, and no development was made. It was a complete waste of time, and the firstAt first the game look incredible with it's scenery and other elements. But after playing it for a couple of hours, I realised something; this, to be honest, has got to be one of the worst Assassin's Creed games so far. It was constant sailing and stupid pirate **** having nothing to do with the original plot line, and no development was made. It was a complete waste of time, and the first out of the 6 games I didn't finish. This being said, I don't think I'll be purchasing any more Assassin's Creed games from now on.… Expand
  87. Laifhter
    Dec 30, 2020
    3
    Gra denerwująca. Będąc 2000 m od celu ze zlecenia zabójstwa wszystko jest ok ale jak tylko próbuję okrążyć wyspę na której się znajduję tym samym oddalając się od przypuszczalnego obszaru jego pobytu o jakieś 20 m to gra wywala z komunikatem że cel uciekł bo byłem zbyt daleko.
    Podobnie mało realizmu gdy próbuję postacią podpłynąć do statku wroga. Wyświetla się znaczek że ktoś ze statku ma    Gra denerwująca. Będąc 2000 m od celu ze zlecenia zabójstwa wszystko jest ok ale jak tylko próbuję okrążyć wyspę na której się znajduję tym samym oddalając się od przypuszczalnego obszaru jego pobytu o jakieś 20 m to gra wywala z komunikatem że cel uciekł bo byłem zbyt daleko.
    Podobnie mało realizmu gdy próbuję postacią podpłynąć do statku wroga. Wyświetla się znaczek że ktoś ze statku ma do mnie strzelać mimo że nikt na statku jeszcze nie wie o mojej obecności. Nawet gdy podczas próby podpłynięcia schowam się nagle za skałą aby uniknąć trafienia to i tak dostaje mimo tego że to nawet niemożliwe. Wrogi statek jest w stanie wykryć małego płynącego gracza w wodzie a nie potrafi wykryć mojego dużego statku bo nie znajduję się na jakimś żółtym jebanym polu. Mała postać jest lepiej widoczna niż ogromny statek. Plus kurwa za realizm. Nawet jak jakimś cudem uda mi się podpłynąć moją postacią i zabić całą załogę, to i tak jeśli wrócę na swój statek to załoga przeciwnika nagle się odradza i normalnie jest walka. A jeśli chodzi jeszcze o zlecenia zabójstwa to często jest tak że muszę szukać celu na całej wyspie. Jak mnie zobaczy to zaczyna uciekać biegając po całej wyspie. Wystarczy że stracę go z oczu i już dostaje komunikat o tym że cel uciekł. Nie mógł uciec przecież statkiem bo żaden akurat nie był przycumowany przy wyspie więc jedynie mógł się schować na owej wyspie i musiałbym go szukać na całym jej obszarze, co i tak bym musiał robić nawet gdyby mnie nie wykrył.
    Często jest też tak że w momencie kiedy wcisnę przycisk odpowiadający za poruszanie się np. w prawo i do tego Shift to i tak bohater postanawia wspinać się na przeszkodę przed nim mimo tego że nie kliknąłem klawisza odpowiadającego za taką czynność.
    Przeciwnicy są tak głupi że nie wiedzą gdzie jestem nawet jeśli na ich oczach wejdę do krzaków.
    Jeśli zabiję kogoś będąc w krzakach, tym samym odpali się animacja w której mój bohater chowa ciało do krzaków to potem jeśli wróg nie wejdzie do krzaków to nie zobaczy ciała. Jeżeli jednak postanowię zabić kogoś nie będąc w żadnej kryjówce tylko normalnie stojąc a następnie wrzucę jego ciało do krzaków aby go nie znaleźli, to przeciwnicy i tak zobaczą ciało z jakiś 20 m nawet po ciemku w nocy.    … Expand
  88. Sablcious
    Feb 1, 2014
    2
    Horribly casual, good-looking game. ACIV pretty much typifies what's wrong with the pastime of video gaming today -- über casual, semi-interactive gameplay layered under pretty visuals. Only recommended for gamers who got into the pastime around the time the Nintendo Wii appeared. For anyone else, get your friend(s) to play it while you watch, drunk!
  89. tacomodo
    Nov 24, 2013
    2
    Nothing new to see here, move along. If you've played any of the other asscreeds, you've played this one too. They really should stop milking this dead cow. Graphics actually seem worse than before.
  90. asscreedfanboi
    Nov 20, 2013
    2
    Best part of the game is the theme/setting, which is done very well. Everything else seems pretty stale. Probably would be worth a 6 or 7 if I were on a console, but this is a PC review, and it runs like ass on PC. Poorly optimized would be a compliment in this case, and Ubisoft even came out and said they didn't give a crap. I was sort of amused by the DLC, where you can pay money toBest part of the game is the theme/setting, which is done very well. Everything else seems pretty stale. Probably would be worth a 6 or 7 if I were on a console, but this is a PC review, and it runs like ass on PC. Poorly optimized would be a compliment in this case, and Ubisoft even came out and said they didn't give a crap. I was sort of amused by the DLC, where you can pay money to reveal the locations of activities and other things. At least it wasn't day 1 DLC to get the rest of the game!… Expand
  91. shamon
    Aug 5, 2014
    2
    This is among the worst stupidest games they made in the series....the whole ship battle thing is so stupid and frustrating, trying to aim and control the ship at the same time is a horrible frustrating experience

    and "assassin abilities"?...edward is just some guy who stole the clothes of a real assassin...how does that give him assassins creed abilities?? and how does this make it an    This is among the worst stupidest games they made in the series....the whole ship battle thing is so stupid and frustrating, trying to aim and control the ship at the same time is a horrible frustrating experience

    and "assassin abilities"?...edward is just some guy who stole the clothes of a real assassin...how does that give him assassins creed abilities?? and how does this make it an assassins creed game?...the is the most stupid plot in these series so far it has nothing to do with anything...there's really no point in this game at all.    … Expand
  92. kimikazio
    Jan 5, 2014
    2
    A simple OK game, but not an Assassins Creed Game

    The story starts ok, and then it goes backwards.. Edward isnt even an Assassin, why ubisoft made an assassins creed game with the main character not being an assassin? The first person view and Abstergo as entertainment company made me want to ragequit the game instantly and play AC2 thinking that AC4 was a baaaad nightmare that never    A simple OK game, but not an Assassins Creed Game

    The story starts ok, and then it goes backwards.. Edward isnt even an Assassin, why ubisoft made an assassins creed game with the main character not being an assassin?
    The first person view and Abstergo as entertainment company made me want to ragequit the game instantly and play AC2 thinking that AC4 was a baaaad nightmare that never happened.

    Ac3 was really bad and empty, AC4 is a total Lie. If someone is thinking about buying it, wait till its on Steam sale for 3 bucks, more than that its worthless.

    Definetly, Ubisoft is sick with the call of duty fever, yearly releases and yearly deceptions, i have no more hope on Assassins creed anymore.
    Also started the Aveline DLC on AC4 and after 10 minutes it was totally boring and uninstalled the whole game.

    Assassins creed died with Ezio Auditore. It's not worth to play the 3rd or even this new one.

    AC1 was like: wow it has potential, will look for the future
    AC2 was like: oh my god this is the best series
    AC:B was like: oh my god this is the best series, second part
    AC:R was like: not as good as previous games, but its okay. (they should have explained better what happened with Lucy at the beginning of the game)

    AC3 was like: what am i playing? i have the feeling that im not understanding anything

    AC4 was like: Assassin's Creed R.I.P. 2013    … Expand
  93. officer7161
    Jan 30, 2014
    2
    boycott this franchise please! All assasin's creed has done is just recycle, recycle, recyle. If you compare the characters and maps etc from the previous titles in the franchise, they just take the same stuff and repackage it. I used to be a huge fan of MP of the series, but just got bored after they just repackage the same stuff repeatedly.
    Now I tried out MP in blackflag I can spot    boycott this franchise please! All assasin's creed has done is just recycle, recycle, recyle. If you compare the characters and maps etc from the previous titles in the franchise, they just take the same stuff and repackage it. I used to be a huge fan of MP of the series, but just got bored after they just repackage the same stuff repeatedly.
    Now I tried out MP in blackflag I can spot characters recycled from brotherhood, revelations etc...
    It's just terrible! guys, boycott the franchise so they will actually put some energy into creating new titles instead of recycling old ones!
    don't buy this game if you played previous title/titles!    … Expand
  94. xenzorg
    May 30, 2014
    2
    Same **** every year. And guess what, this year they are making 3 **** games. "Next gen" version, for old consoles (that means that both gonna be on pc) and ****ty watch dogs that is nothing more than ac.
  95. 420guy69
    Mar 21, 2020
    2
    Gave this game a 2 because:
    1. The game is unoptimized for PC, constant tearing, and FPS drop.
    2. The story is fine. It isn't that unique cause the characters you kill, They say something that sound really boring. 3. Stealth is dumbed-down into a point where trailing missions are actually fun than just killing people with your sword. 4. Gameplay is the same, except Ubisoft made it    Gave this game a 2 because:
    1. The game is unoptimized for PC, constant tearing, and FPS drop.
    2. The story is fine. It isn't that unique cause the characters you kill, They say something that sound really boring.
    3. Stealth is dumbed-down into a point where trailing missions are actually fun than just killing people with your sword.
    4. Gameplay is the same, except Ubisoft made it worse. The animators created the worst finishing moves and attacking moves in the history of gaming. Kenway just stabs a British Soldier with the worst sound fx i also heard. Just a stab to the right and a stab to the left. In AC3, there are variety of choices in the game to kill your guy, and amazing animations. It doesn't get me bored unlike in AC4.
    5. Trailing Missions: This is explained by videogamedunkey, where half of the game is just trailing missions, It's generic, and boring. You just follow this dude, kill or tail another guy.
    6. Optional Objectives. This mechanic really annoyed me throughout the AC franchise playthrough, Ubisoft said it is "Optional" so it is up to the player if they want to do it or not. But Ubisoft shames them with a 50% Sync rate. It feels like you are being forced to do the Optional Objectives, and those objectives are really frusturating to the point where you just said: **** you ****ersoft, I'm doing it my way."

    And conclusion:
    The game is really boring and the same, there's nothing unique and it feels generic. Ubisoft didn't add anything new to the game, while the Game Critics sits there and start writing a review for a game that didn't even come out yet. It took me 3 days to beat the game because it just felt boring.    … Expand
  96. bobreviews
    Nov 24, 2013
    1
    Runs like absolute ass. Yet another console port, from ubisoft. Tons of boring sailing. Unnecessary bolted-on additions to the story. Pretty much par for course now from ubisoft.
  97. jon-h86
    Apr 9, 2014
    1
    This game has a great engine(1 point). It would have been a great game if it wasn't so boring. It has very little to offer other than repetitive tasks and one dimensional characters. Truly a horrible waste of resources. Unplayable
  98. Sickbeard
    Apr 2, 2014
    1
    I would give this game a great review, if Ubisoft could get their **** together. Uplay is total trash, and them hanging onto it is a cancer upon the gamers. Countless people have lost save files as a result, and the fact that Ubisoft hasn't a) tried to fix it, or b) fired up a local countermeasure (like saving the files locally in an easy to find folder), is a disgrace and a shame.
    When I    I would give this game a great review, if Ubisoft could get their **** together. Uplay is total trash, and them hanging onto it is a cancer upon the gamers. Countless people have lost save files as a result, and the fact that Ubisoft hasn't a) tried to fix it, or b) fired up a local countermeasure (like saving the files locally in an easy to find folder), is a disgrace and a shame.
    When I buy a game, I do so in the hopes that I can play it and finish it. But then that I can pick it up again a couple months later and play around some more. If I want to restart a game, I'd like it to be by my own discretion.    … Expand
  99. Matinski
    Feb 19, 2014
    1
    I loved the AC games up until AC3. I heard that Black Flag was better so I went out and bought it. To be fair it is a better game than AC3 but it is so horribly optimised for the PC that I don't even want to play it anymore (I got to memory 2). It lags and stutters when panning and is just horrible to play. I have a good gaming PC and don't have issue with any other games.

    If you are    I loved the AC games up until AC3. I heard that Black Flag was better so I went out and bought it. To be fair it is a better game than AC3 but it is so horribly optimised for the PC that I don't even want to play it anymore (I got to memory 2). It lags and stutters when panning and is just horrible to play. I have a good gaming PC and don't have issue with any other games.

    If you are buying this on PC then DON'T.    … Expand
  100. RustyJames
    Nov 24, 2013
    1
    Booring! We saw all that stuff in AC3. In my opinion Ubisoft consider PC gamers as a bunch of silly children, again and again. The graphics just a bit better, than in AC3, but with poor tech support of PC, the lags and freezes appears even on the recently upgraded machines. But what is advice by Ubisoft? "HA-HA. Try again and buy the high-end system!". I'm tired of this ****
    But what do    Booring! We saw all that stuff in AC3. In my opinion Ubisoft consider PC gamers as a bunch of silly children, again and again. The graphics just a bit better, than in AC3, but with poor tech support of PC, the lags and freezes appears even on the recently upgraded machines. But what is advice by Ubisoft? "HA-HA. Try again and buy the high-end system!". I'm tired of this ****
    But what do you find at the game? Silly screenplay, as usual, 1-dimensional characters, as usual, a lot of extremely stupid mini-games, as usual. But the most annoying things are the missions, i suppose it's the worst game design in the series. After a couple hours it seems that you play replays type 1: shadowing and chase, type 2: annoying naval battles (the fun leaves after 3-4 battle), type 3: the robbery that appears to massacre.

    I hoped AC4 to be at least open-world game, but it fails, of course just a dead cities (like an exact copy past from AC3), with number of treasures and other "pirate" stuff...

    Music and sound are usual, quite ok, sounds like a lot of money wasted to something similar to "historical" or "original"...Actors are ok, but the dialogues, no doubt, was writen by the children and for the children...

    Controls in PC version are still headache since AC1, the alter-ego tries to irritate you at least 1 time per 2 minutes, especially when you're doing "cool parkour stuff"...

    It's the same situation again on PC, the series still have failed since AC2, which was a real step forward, so what can i say "use your assassin's abilities" and don't waste your time and money as "a fake pirate" in AC3,5.    … Expand
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Generally favorable reviews - based on 10 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 8 out of 10
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 10
  3. Negative: 0 out of 10
  1. GameCritics
    Mar 5, 2014
    60
    Ironically enough for a game which centers around the concept of genetic ancestry, however, it continually lets itself down by refusing to break away from its own tired and worn-out heritage,
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  2. DarkZero
    Jan 16, 2014
    90
    Fans that were bummed out by Assassin’s Creed III will most likely find Black Flag to be a welcoming return to what they love about the series, with a great story, amazingly crafted world and smart additions to the sailing that make it a refreshing part of the Assassin’s Creed formula.
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  3. PC PowerPlay
    Dec 30, 2013
    90
    Makes up for the failings of AC3, delivering a fantastic, engaging open world experience. [Jan 2014, p.78]
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