15 Most Overrated Video Games Of The Decade (So Far)
13. Assassins Creed: Black Flag
Speaking of Ubisoft, they'd pretty much buried the Assassin's Creed franchise under unplayable amounts of texture/character pop-in, generic motivational characters and an overall feeling that AC III needed a few more months in the coding oven.
Enter Black Flag, the game from one of Ubi's other studios working constantly on the series (there are 10 in total), and a title that sure, meant you could run around and stab everyone within eyeshot without feeling like your character might momentarily fall through the world, but also had about as much to do with Assassin's Creed's core gameplay philosophies as Konami does promoting Silent Hills.
Suddenly you were expected to get on board with one of AC III's mini-games being turned into a full product, pirate'ing it up across the Caribbean and harpooning whales in your spare time, occasionally plundering nearby ships for treasure.
"Planning an assassination?" you say, what's that? Your character was a pirate himself who only came about some Assassin robes after stealing them, and from then on in although Black Flag was great fun on a purely mechanical level - it was essentially Assassin's Creed in name only.