Seeing as I enjoy the Assassin's Creed franchise, and seeing that there are a few Creed fans within this community (and partly because jamesster keeps getting to all the good stuff for LEGO news), I've decided to write up on the latest in these games.

In case you haven't noticed, there was a pretty big leak this week for AC4, in the form of a premier trailer. You see, good old Ubisoft was going to keep this trailer under wraps until Monday (March 5th), when they would also reveal the release date and some other tidbits for the masses...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMcMph-TW9I

After this beauty got leaked, we discovered that the release date will be October 29, 2013 (just one day shy of a year after AC3), the game will focus on another new face--Edward Kenway, grandpappy of Connor--and it's assumed it will SOMEHOW still follow the Desmond Miles storyline. Maybe he had a long lost brother? maybe his father goes into the Animus? If so, we'd get more John de Lancie voice acting!

As well, we get an actual title for the game (other than just a number): Black Flag.

On that note, we have a new theme: PIRATES. Freaking PIRATES. It'll be in the Caribbean sometime in the 1700's. (We could give it an alternate title of AC4: On Stranger Tides )

So that rumor of AC4 being set in Brazil was bogus, and McJobless seems to be correct about "not trusting a Ubisoft employee" for everything.

Anyway, The game will also be shipping for the PS3, PS4, Xbox 360, PC and Wii U, as well as whatever "Next-gen console" Microsoft will be dishing out.

So there we have it! I now understand why McJobless threw up when he heard of AC4 coming out so soon. Your actions have been justified, but I still anticipate the next one, as long as it isn't half-assed like most sequels right after are.

Sources: http://gamingillustrated.com/assassins-creed-4-trailer-leaked-and-major-details-revealed/

http://assassinscreed.wikia.com/wiki/Assassin's_Creed_IV:_Black_Flag