Assassin's Creed IV Black Flag

Assassin's Creed IV Black Flag is an adventure game developed by Ubisoft Montreal and released in 2013. It was published by Ubisoft Entertainment. It is available on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Wii U, Xbox One, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Google Stadia and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on AnvilNext. It carries an ESRB M age rating.

It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action, fantasy, historical and open world. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer and Single player. There are 60 achievements to unlock.

Assassin's Creed IV Black Flag is the 51st of 205 entries we hold in the Assassin's Creed series. It arrived 6 months after Assassin's Creed III: The Tyranny of King Washington. The next entry was Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag - Buccaneer Edition in 2013. Its critic score of 85 is 10 points above the series average of 75. The highest-rated entry is Assassin's Creed III: Deluxe Edition at 96.

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Assassin's Creed IV Black Flag holds a critic score of 85 out of 100. That places it above 82% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2013 averaged 70, so it scored 15 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 84, across 1,823 votes.

The main story runs about 36 hrs. Completing everything takes closer to 57.3 hrs, roughly 1.6 times the length of the critical path.

The minimum specification calls for Intel Core2Quad Q8400 @ 2.6 GHz or AMD Athlon II X4 620 @ 2.6 GHz, 2 GB RAM and Nvidia Geforce GTX 260 or AMD Radeon HD 4870 (512MB VRAM with shader Model 4.0 or higher). At 2GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 30GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.

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Assassin's Creed IV Black Flag launched on 29 October 2013, within three weeks of Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag, Deus Ex: Human Revolution - Director's Cut, The Stanley Parable and Battlefield 4. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4. It was a PlayStation 4 launch-window title.

Released around the same time: Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag, Deus Ex: Human Revolution - Director's Cut, The Stanley Parable, Battlefield 4.

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