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'Assassin’s Creed 4' will not let players kill sharks while underwater

Were you one of the people who were thinking when you play Assassin's Creed 4 you are going to be able to stealthily creep up behind a Great White Shark, while under water, and take it down? Well guess what? You will not be able to do that.

In an exclusive interview with Examiner, Assassin's Creed 4 game director Ashraf Ismail confirmed to us that players will not be able to kill sharks while they are underwater.

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ZBlacktt3845d ago

Yeah, because in real life we can all stealthily creep up behind a Great White Shark and kill it with hand held weapon.

360GamerFG3845d ago (Edited 3845d ago )

To be fair, in real life we can't all scale tall buildings, leap in to haystacks, wield ancient debilitating artifacts and climb into contraptions that access our ancestors' memories through our DNA either.

ZBlacktt3845d ago (Edited 3845d ago )

Really?

http://www.youtube.com/watc...

This real life Assassin will show you how, lol....

http://www.youtube.com/watc...

LOGICWINS3845d ago

Haven't purchased an Assassin's Creed game since AC2, but that thumbnail and all the previews I've read guarantees a buy from me.

NVIDIAGeek3845d ago

Pirates>>>Psycho/Soci opaths.

SeanScythe3845d ago

I terms of badasses yes but when it comes to these games. I take GTA5, if AC4 let me and my friends share a boat and take on adventures together I would agree. I would love to start a Pirate Crew and sail the seas with them discovering islands and treasure.

goldwyncq3845d ago

Trevor> All AC assassins

ZBlacktt3845d ago (Edited 3845d ago )

Must not be aware. Most hacked, glitched single player. Most broken glitched online. Yes, 10/10.....

People looking for GTAV cheap check Craigslist. People are dropping this game fast because if countless issues. Plus, Next Gen in only a month away.

SeanScythe3845d ago

I just picked up a second copy so when my cousin comes to visit this weekend we can play together. I've been having a blast in online since the patches fixed the problems.

BobBelcher3845d ago

yeah, yeah, but what I really wanna know is
Can I ride them?

360GamerFG3845d ago

You'll have to wait for the Sharkborn expansion for that.

BattleTorn3845d ago

That's realistic - if you ask me.

I was surprised that one can knife a shark while underwater in GTAV.

I can suspend my disbelief that one could kill a shark from a boat. But I have a harder time believing one could kill a shark underwater - in it's domain.

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Leaked Early Prototype Footage Reveals Development Stages Of Several Assassin's Creed Games

Prototype footage from several of Ubisoft's Assassin's Creed titles has leaked, revealing early stages of their development.

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The Best Pirate-Themed Video Games (Not Skull and Bones)

BY JASON MONROE: The very best pirate-themed video games that you should play instead of the disappointment that is Skull and Bones.

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thorstein48d ago

PoE: Deadfire, Unless you have a or PS5 or an SSD don't bother, loading times are insane. A minute and a half to go into a room to investigate a desk in an inn and then an additional 1 1/2 minutes to leave the room and then load to leave the inn???

And they never fixed it.

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Assassin’s Creed: Black Flag vs Skull and Bones Video Comparison Is an Eye-Opener

Ubisoft has just released Skull and Bones on PC and consoles. And, from the looks of it, the game wasn’t received well by some gamers. Not only that but it appears that Skull and Bones can be worse than Assassin’s Creed: Black Flag, a game that came out a decade ago.

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OtterX62d ago (Edited 62d ago )

I wanted a Black Flag sequel so bad. It's still my favorite AC entry. The fact that they ignored everything that we loved about that game in this "spiritual successor" is making me enjoy watching this game crash and burn quite a bit. Either do it right or don't do it at all. (I understand the legal binding they got themselves into with the Singapore government to release this game at all costs)

/grabs popcorn

isarai61d ago

My thing is, if the Singapore govt was forcing you to do it at all cost, why not make what people wanted? How did ubi delay it for 5yrs, then again for 1yr and not just make a similar experience to black flag? How do you spend so much time and make so little?

Chocoburger60d ago

Ubisoft did make a sequel, Assassin's Creed: Rogue. It has a short campaign, and its packed with filler side quests for upgrades, but it's still a decent time.

It released on the same day as Assassin's Creed: Unity, so it was mostly forgotten.

porkChop61d ago

11 years of development. Multiple restarts. All the while people have been saying they don't want some pirate game where you can't even get off your ship. 11 years of people telling Ubisoft all they want is a pirate game that's basically Black Flag without any of the assassin or animus stuff. Yet they still served up this trash that no one wanted, charged $70 for it, and had the balls to call it AAAA.

The Guillemot family honestly needs to be forced out of Ubisoft. They've doubled down on everything players don't like about their games, they want AI to create "rough drafts" of their stories rather than letting their writers do their jobs, and they literally do not give a shit what their playerbase actually wants. 5-6 years ago their stock was worth more than 4x what it's currently worth. The company is dying.

Jin_Sakai61d ago (Edited 61d ago )

What has happened to developers? How can you possible make a worse looking game 11 years later? It’s honestly mind boggling.

darksky60d ago

It's because the older developers were better at it. The new generation pass most of their exams by copying code from around the web so are not nearly as good at understanding what they are developing.

LucasRuinedChildhood60d ago (Edited 60d ago )

No, here's the truth:
https://www.channelnewsasia...
This was made in Singapore and it's the first game of this scale to be made there. Ubisoft would probably cancel it normally since it clearly wasn't shaping up well but they were getting government grants to try build up the industry there.

Do you really think game developers are radically different than just 10 years ago? And this game has been development since Black Flag released.

Using one crap game to trash a whole industry of developers is stupid. It's like saying "Alien Colonial Marines proves that game developers suck now."

yeahokwhatever60d ago

i know this to be at least part of the puzzle from experience.

senorfartcushion60d ago

It's the multiplayer aspect of the world. MP games look worse than single player games, period. Every comparison we keep seeing are for games like Gotham Knights, Suicide Squad and Skull and Bones. They all have multiplayer focusses.

SyntheticForm61d ago

God, I'd love a remake of Black Flag.

Yi-Long61d ago

Enough has been said about this game already. The gaming world shrugged when it was announced so many years ago, and instead of listening to all the criticisms from the community back then, Ubi just sailed on and kept making a game nobody really wanted. What a waste of money and effort.

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