Report: Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag is Getting a Remake - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 01 July 2023 / 7,195 Views
A remake of Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag is in development by Ubisoft, according to two sources familiar with Ubisoft's plans who spoke with Kotaku.
A team at Ubisoft Singapore will reportedly be heavily involved with the remake, which is still in early stages of development and will not be released for at least a few years.
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag first released for the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, and Wii U in October 2013, followed by the PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC in November 2013, the Nintendo Switch Switch in December 2019, and Google Stadia in September 2021.
Ubisoft has several Assassin's Creed games in development. This includes Assassin's Creed Mirage, which is set to release in October, Assassin's Creed Nexus VR, Assassin's Creed Codename Red, Assassin's Creed Codename Hexe, and Assassin's Creed Codename Jade.
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Theory: Ubisoft is remaking this game only because they can save cost using the same materials they used for Skull and Bones.
Yeah, it checks out. Also, wouldn't it be funny if the remaster gets released before Skull and Bones?
Oh, God. That would be embarassing. Then again, the Black Flag remake is likely to have a multiplayer mode... that could happen to be Skull & Bones, so that Ubi can get some moneyh from this sinkhole of a game one way or another.
Why? It's not that old and a remaster would look fine. Waste of time.
It's Ubisoft, the almighty dollar comes first.
I would rather an Ezio trilogy remake, but designed as one single game. But a Black Flag remake I understand why they are doing it.
I get why remakes and remasters are such a big thing they can be a good thing, particularly when the originals are inaccessible or borderline unplayable by modern standards. But AC4 is relatively recent and the 8th Gen versions are backwards compatible on 9th Gen consoles so this feels redundant.
The cynic in me says V-rock is exactly right.
Here's hoping that this remake (assuming it exists) will get rid of those annoying Eavesdropping and Tailing sections. They were the primary reason why I don't rank Black Flag quite as high as AC II or Brotherhood.
Pipol will line up for this if they delivered
Back into the Creed mines I see. I remember that one time they said they wanted to give the franchise a bit of a rest, but I guess that wont be happening again anytime soon.
Also I wasn't a big fan of the changes they made to Creed 2 "remaster", and they also never sold that on PC either, so I can't say I'd care for them to break Black Flag and make it worse.
PS4 is mentioned in the place of PS3 once in the article.
Btw, that was a really, really great game, loved playing it back in 2013.
At this point, Ubisoft should just change its name to 'The Assassin's Creed Company' or something along those lines.
Thats disappointing. That was the most boring assasin creed game of the lot .
