
Swapping the rather successful setting of Renaissance Italy and the suave hero, Ezio, for pirates in the Caribbean and an anti-hero in the brigand, Edward Kenway, was a gamble. Assassins plotline featuring the modern-day character of Desmond, necessary due to the events at the end of Assassin’s Creed: Revelations. It also moved away from the original Templar vs.
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The original 2012 release of Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag finally saw the series move on from the saga of Ezio Auditore, whose trilogy of games probably was one too many. Whilst most of the gameplay in the Assassin’s Creed games is within the historical setting, there are some sequences in the modern day. The Templars company, Abstergo, developed the Animus to locate these artefacts.

A device called the Animus exploits the genetic memories held in DNA to enable the subject to relive history though the eyes of their forefathers (later of just the forefathers of the subject’s DNA sample).īoth the Assassins and the Templars are looking for ancient artefacts whose modern-day location may be reviled in the past. The series’ over-arching and somewhat esoteric plot tells the story of an age-old conflict between the Order of Templars and the Assassins. Ubisoft’s veteran series of third-person adventure games mix history with science fiction. The package also includes all the single player DLC for both games.


Physical copies of the game include Assassin’s Creed IV on the game card with Rogue available for download. Assassin’s Creed: The Rebel Collection includes both the critically acclaimed Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag and the series’ last-gen swansong, Assassin’s Creed: Rogue. Last year we got the Assassin’s Creed III Remastered Switch release, which featured Assassin’s Creed III and an updated version of the PlayStation Vita’s Assassin’s Creed Liberation. With Nintendo’s Switch already sporting a technological gaming marvel with it’s impressive Witcher 3 port, Ubisoft have put their hat in the ring to bring players a package of not just one massive, fully realised game world, but two with their Assassin’s Creed: The Rebel Collection.
