Rogue Ops - Xbox Game (Retro Fam)

The best game of 2013. It's AC4 meets Far Cry 3, with a dynamic pirate component. It's a great deal of fun, highly playable.One of the areas of this game that has impressed me is that our hero is not invincible. One of the flaws of the previous AC games is that after a ramp opening, your player becomes nearly invulnerable to nearly any enemy. In AC4: Black Flag, your ship needs a plethora of upgrades, combat skill and simply time to become adept in war at sea. For the exploration and combat portions, the game also has increased the challenge in terms of combat. It's not Arkham City refined, but the combat and action has improved noticeably.For 60 dollars, you get your money's worth. There is a pirate ship game, an exploration game in Mayan Ruins and Shipwrecks, a Captain Ahab hunt for sea creatures along with some jungle hunts for rare animals. All of it works. I am well past 10-12 hours on campaign, and have many side missions and a few more memories to complete.What doesn't work perfectly is the narrative. It doesn't have the romantic component of AC2. Edward Kenway is a badass, but do we care about him. I am 80% through the campaign, and there hasn't been a significant plot twist yet. Considering how his character doesn't have a sexual prowess in a classically inclined setting, I could see his character being revealed to be a priest or something. Also, there isn't a strong emphasis on the war between the Assassins and the Templars in this go round.The visuals are outstandi.

I got this for my husband's birthday and it's a major hit! I'm not a gamer myself, and don't know much about it, but figured anything with Pirates has to be cool ... and "Black Flag" did not disappoint. He's whooping and hollering and laughing, playing in the other room as I write this. He raves about how spectacular the graphics are and he's loving the action, saying that he hasn't had this much fun with a game since he first played the original Assassin's Creed. He's wanted this for a long time, but couldn't really afford to splurge. I found the cost on retrolio (ordered one other small item to get the free shipping!) to be less than half of what it's going for in the local game shop, so I scored a great game at a great price ... and a great birthday gift! Highly recommended.

Let me start by saying I'm another one of those Assassins Creed fans that owns all of the prior releases. The one thing I did not do though was pre-order this installment because of the dissatisfaction I had with AC3. It wasn't so much the story of AC3 that I disliked, but the glitches and the add-on DLC I purchased with the season pass. I felt they (Ubisoft) got away from the story in the DLC and tried to do too much by introducing Connor to some special abilities (Wolf Cloak, Eagle Flight). The one area that this series always seems to shine is the amount of data they include ....... to enter historical facts and descriptions of characters, buildings, etc ... that's a lot of information to include. Very informative stuff if you take the time to read everything.Assassins Creed 4 Black Flag does have a "pirate theme" and I can't say that I've ever played game (story wise) that compares to this. Its actually fun navigating a ship !! AC3 introduced this but I found it a little awkward at first but once you catch on its pretty straight forward. The sense of steering on the rocky waters is fantastic, Ubisoft did a great job in my opinion. As far as the gameplay goes I'm only at 12% completion but I've put in quite a few hours, mainly due to the side activities. I'm one who enjoys finding all the treasure chests, scaling all of the viewpoints and doing every contract. The different ways to assassinate never gets old, whether its a "double" or whistling from a h.

As an Assassin's Creed game, this has to be one of the worst ones out of them all. As a game completely on it's own though, it was amazing! The story was decent and the updates to sailing were great! A lot of people seemed to complain about it, but I thought it was a lot of fun. A lot of the time, after my ship was all upgraded, I found myself just sailing around for hours, seeing how many ships I could take on before mine was destroyed. As I said though, as an Assassin's Creed game it was one of the worst. It really didn't feel like the rest of the series did and the "real world" part of the story seemed to build up to something but then nothing ever really happened. It was a let down considering how amazing the games with Desmond had been and then you suddenly get this story.If you plan on getting this, remember what was said. Don't expect much for the Assassin's Creed story, but if you like pirates and the idea of all the sailing and naval battles, this is well worth getting!

This is one of the best games I have ever played. It really holds up and I am happy to keep playing it in 2020.