Preview: Assassin’s Creed IV  

Last week Ubisoft revealed the next game in the series, Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag. No official release date was give other than fall, but if it will likely be released in late October or early November as the other five were.

Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag also marks a handful of peculiar changes for the series. First, it’s going to be the first mainline Assassin’s Creed sequel to bear a subtitle. That might not sound significant, but the series has been deliberate in its use of subtitles up to this point. Associate producer Sylvain Trottier said point blank in a demo of this new battle between the assassins and the Templars, that despite the Black Flag subtitle, this is not an offshoot of like the PS Vita’s Assassin’s Creed III: Liberation; this is the Assassin’s Creed IV. Though when pressed about ACIV being an umbrella for multiple games Sylvain did laughingly say, “Wait until next year.”