There is a rich tapestry of ancestral memories ripe for possible game ideas, but as you start hacking into your coworkers’ computers, you’ll realize that most are unsuitable for consumer gameplay. You play as the latest new hire, destined to spend countless hours in your cubicle tapping into the memories of Subject 17 – aka Desmond Miles, whose body was recovered after the tragic events at the end of Assassin’s Creed III. Abstergo has gone from a shady corporate villain to a major public company that has joined forces with Ubisoft (yes, this gets pretty Meta) to create entertainment products from harvested DNA memories.
The centuries-long battle between Assassin’s and Templars is a mere footnote in the historical Animus archives. Sure, there are Assassins and Templars, cool hooded cloaks, fancy parkour moves, swords, pistols, and even that blue/red/gold instinctual hunter vision mode, but this latest installment in the series has much more up its sleeve than just a pair of deadly wrist blades.Īssassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag uses the death of Desmond Miles to essentially reboot the series, or at least take a serious detour. It’s ironic that the best Assassin’s Creed game in the series to date has the least to do with the core premise upon which the franchise was founded.
