8 Video Game Pre-Orders That Made You Say WHAT?!

3. ...A Football - Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag

Assassin's Creed black flag
Ubisoft

When someone says the words Assassin's Creed, your mind might instantly begin to conjure up images of parkour acrobatics, or hooded figures leaping from rooftops. Of deadly games of cat and mouse, everyone's favourite hero Desmond, and of course, a three-point field goal.

Wait... one of these doesn't sound right. Desmond wasn't anyone's favourite!

All kidding aside, for some unknown reason, Ubisoft agreed to the bizarre pre-order bonus of an American Football for people who ponied up the cash early when it came to Black Flag's launch window.

Now, as a man who has little to no interest in American Football, I am still aware that there was a team called The Pirates back in the day, and also that there's another team called the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, but unless Black Flag was aiming to hit these two markets and ONLY these two markets, it seems like a very odd choice.

Still, if you wanted to lob around a branded ball with only the loosest possible connection to a video game....this is your chance?

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