I can't believe there are so few reviews for this game. I guess everyone is busy playing it. I would suggest upgrading your ship with wartime features (not sails and ornate wheels) before you go too far into the story progress.

I still love AC Brotherhood the best but AC4 really was incredibly well done; The story line and settings are fantastic; You live the life of a pirate properly and travel from island to island with many missions for lots of gameplay hours.

The legendary ships are way too hard and I only got one of them using a cheat I saw on youtube; There was a real lack of community challenges for a while and you need them to gain certain items in the captains cabin; Occasionally some glitching and the game froze.

best AC game after AC2 , gameplay, graphics , everything from pirates to assassins to ships and environment and last but not the least the DLCs , everything is awesome.. a nice point to be noted is that its available for almost many platforms from pc to X360,XONE, to PS3,PS4...

Assassin's Creed is a franchise that is very close to my heart. AC1 was one of the first games I played on my Xbox 360 and the second game I played on my PS3 (the inaugural game had to be Metal Gear Solid 4) and I have been fascinated with the franchise ever since.

good story; large open world; varied gameplay

textures still draw; some missions are repetitive; combat is still mechanical

As the sea-faring partner in crime to Edward Kenway, Jackdaw quartermaster Adewale often projected a sense of self that made him a ripe candidate for the assassins. Adewale is now ready to forge own path, though Freedom Cry is just a small window into Adewale's solo exploits; we don't bear witness...

Adewale is a great character to know and to play; A good mix of required and optional missions

Constant spawning detracts from the main story; Poor execution of incentivizing the freeing of slaves

Holy crap! I played this game for the first time today and I can't believe what I've been missing! I've never been truly invested in the Assassin's Creed franchise. I played a few of the old games: Assassins Creed 2 and a bit of Revelations.

This game is fantastic. That I bought it with all the dlc, this game is huge loads to do in this game without the dlc I give it 10/10

Awesome game having alot of fun playing, I find the hardest part steering my ship and trying to fire my cannons correctly at times definitely recommend to all, also great service from Mightyape as always

I would have to say the best one yet! Variety of missions, landscape, ship battles, combat, story. It does have it all, back to its best! As we know though, nothing is perfect. My only issues are eavesdropping missions, the modern day element, I have no interest in sneaking around an office hacking...

An ambitious start for Assassin's Creed on next-gen. The vibrant Caribbean world and bloody piracy shine brightest, while the only sour notes come from contrived series story beats and repetitive missions--both need rethinking for AC5.

Beautiful; vast open world; Edward Kenway is an excellent rogue; Top-notch side-missions

Main missions suffer from repetition; Assassin's Creed lore has devolved to nonsense; Very few actual assassinations

Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag begins with a case of stolen identities, as the shipwrecked Edward Kenway murders a Templar and steals the man's clothes (and name) in order to get home.