"Assassins Creed IV: Black Flag" is one of the most highly anticipated games of the year, and with the release date coming up, new details about the game have surfaced.
Ubisoft Singapore Studio Associate Producer Karl von der Luehe recently did an interview with Forbes, giving game lovers more insight into "Black Flag."
The game takes place in the Caribbean during the early 1700s, the era where Pirates traveled about the seas.
According to Forbes, at first players will control a modern-day employee of Abstergo Industries (better known as The Templars) who needs to look through the personal histories of Assassins using the Animus.
For those unfamiliar with the game, the Animus allows a person to relive memories of long dead ancestors using your DNA. This time around, privateer Edward Kenway is the focus of the Templar's research.
"You have your own workstation, it's your job, essentially, to get into your animus and experience these memories," Luehe told Forbes.
Upon investigatiing The Templars, the employee of Abstergo Industries learns the secret, ancient war between Assassins and Templars.
"[Creators] were toying with the idea of 'what if we went one generation back further than that and told the story of the grandfather of Connor,'" Luehe told Forbes. "Looking at the time period that also fit in well with golden age of piracy, and on top of that the naval gameplay - which was being developed here in Singapore for Assassins Creed 3 - was already showing a lot of potential."
The Carribean setting will give for interesting interactions with characters like Blackbeard, Anne Bonny, Calico Jack, Benjamin Hornigold and "other outlaws of the seas."
According to Forbes, "Black Flag" will have 50 locations for players to explore, including three major cities-Havana, Nassau and Kingston. The gameplay will also allow players to jump aboard a highly upgradable ship, set sail, and dock to explore beaches of another location to continue the adventure.
"Our main mandate was to populate the world with pirate activities," Luehe told Forbes. "So the open world is full of opportunities, full of a variety of gameplay. Some of the examples that we worked on are naval forts. These are very powerful structures that really define a district within the world. You first attack them with your ship and once you've taken down their defenses from the sea, you actually jump off your ship, go on land - a completely seamless transition - and now you're fighting on land amongst your crew, taking out the soldiers within and you capture the fort for your own. Now it's going to protect you and attack enemy ships that go past it."
"Assassins Creed IV: Black Flag" will be released Oct. 29 in the U.S. and Nov. 1 for the U.K.
Click here to view game stills from the modern day aspect of "Black Flag."
