Sooner or later, annual conveyors misfire. And Assassin's Creed 4: Black Flag, the first in this wonderful series.
Let's start in order. Ubisoft did a tremendous job on the game this time. There is a huge, detailed and picturesque world in which you can get lost for a long time, looking for lost chests, scraps of sailor songs, getting animal skins to improve your hero and exploring the underwater world. However, over time you realize that all this time you have been doing something unclear and unclear why. The fauna of the Caribbean islands also does not contain anything unique (and this is after the release of Far Cry 3).
At the beginning of the game, with the help of our assistant Adewale, we receive a Spanish brig called Galka, on which we will sail the expanses of the Caribbean Sea. Along the way, boarding cargo ships, stealing building materials from them to improve the Jackdaw, or sinking enemy ships. There are also forts along the way, to capture which you will first need to destroy all its defensive weapons, and then penetrate inside and kill its commander.
And this, of course, is not all the opportunities provided in the game; it seems that this is quite enough for relaxation between story missions. But over time, when you capture another ship or fort, you realize that you have already done all this a million times and each of them is no different from each other. When boarding a ship, the battle takes place only on the deck and there can be no talk of any advancement through the cabins or holds. After the ship is captured, we are not even given the opportunity to board it. And it turns out that having a relatively small two-masted ship, after the nth number of improvements, we can destroy an entire armada consisting of Battleships (Manovrov), superior to the Jackdaw in everything!
As for the plot, there’s not much to talk about here, it’s just disgusting! The missions are monotonous to the point of horror: follow, sneak unnoticed, kill. All the dialogues and cutscenes are poorly delivered, they are boring and in no way interesting. Here you will no longer learn about any historical events, as was the case in previous games in the series.
Therefore, I strongly do not recommend completing Black Flag, so as not to spoil the impressions of the previous parts of the game (although of course what I’m saying is that anyone who wanted to have already completed it a long time ago).