Why Assassin's Creed: Black Flag Is The Best Assassin's Creed

10. The Freedom Cry Expansion

Assassin's Creed is nothing without its good guys, members of the Brotherhood who stand as the beacons of all things good, fight for the little guys by taking down evil Templars and help guide the main character through their journeys. Perhaps no character personifies the spirit of the Brotherhood quite as well as Adewale from Black Flag, the former-slave turned first mate of Edward Kenway on the Jackdaw.

Black Flag's first bit of downloadable content, Freedom Cry, is set twenty years after the events of the game and follows Adewale and his trials as an Assassin. The expansion follows the story of Ade uncovering a plan to use slaves as a means of chartering the world, but really scores points for taking such an iconic character and blending him into a story revolving around the heavy subjects of slavery and what true freedom really means.

For their work on the Freedom Cry expansion, writers Jill Murray, Melissa MacCoubrey, Hugo Giard and Wesley Pincombe received a Writers Guild of America Awards nomination and the extra content helped the world of Black Flag establish a lore and continuity that would trickle over to Assassin's Creed III and Rogue.