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Assassin's Creed series

Assassin's Creed: Pirates

Play as Alonzo Batilla, a young and ambitious pirate captain, break the rules, challenge empires and amass gold! ENGAGE IN BRUTAL NAVAL COMBATS Fight in real-time naval battles all over the Caribbean Sea…

65 5 December 2013 ESRB T

Assassin's Creed: Pirates is a point-and-click developed by Ubisoft Paris, released 5 December 2013 on Android, iOS, PC (Microsoft Windows) and Windows Phone.

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What Assassin's Creed: Pirates is

Assassin's Creed: Pirates is a point-and-click game developed by Ubisoft Paris and released in 2013. It was published by Ubisoft Entertainment. It is available on Android, iOS, PC (Microsoft Windows) and Windows Phone. It carries an ESRB T age rating.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Play as Alonzo Batilla, a young and ambitious pirate captain, break the rules, challenge empires and amass gold! ENGAGE IN BRUTAL NAVAL COMBATS Fight in real-time naval battles all over the Caribbean Sea. Choose from a wide range of weapons from the pivot cannon to the mortar, to destroy your foes and manoeuver to dodge enemy shots. Show your skills, defeat legendary ships in battle and become a true pirate legend! BUILD UP YOUR CREW AND YOUR SHIP Raise your flag on the most iconic boats of the Golden Age of Piracy; ranging from the smallest ship to the Man O’War floating fortress. Upgrade your vessel with legendary customizations and the massive bounty plundered on the wild seas. Build…
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How it plays

It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action, fantasy, historical and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.

Where it sits in the Assassin's Creed series

Assassin's Creed: Pirates is the 65th of 205 entries we hold in the Assassin's Creed series. The next entry was Assassin's Creed IV Black Flag: Blackbeard's Wrath in 2013. Its critic score of 65 is 10 points below the series average of 75. The highest-rated entry is Assassin's Creed III: Deluxe Edition at 96.

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How it was received

Assassin's Creed: Pirates holds a critic score of 65 out of 100. That places it above 24% of the 501 rated point-and-click games in our database, which average 71. Games released in 2013 averaged 70, so it scored 5 points below the year average.

What it launched against

Assassin's Creed: Pirates launched on 5 December 2013, within three weeks of The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds, Super Mario 3D World, The Walking Dead: Season 2 and The Walking Dead: Season Two. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds, Super Mario 3D World, The Walking Dead: Season 2, The Walking Dead: Season Two.

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When did Assassin's Creed: Pirates come out?
Assassin's Creed: Pirates was released on 5 December 2013 for Android, iOS, PC (Microsoft Windows) and Windows Phone.

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