Assassin’s Creed Black Flag could be considered something of a trendsetter for the Ubisoft stealth RPG series. One of the first games to turn to the more fantastical, worldwide settings that games like Valhalla and Odyssey now comfortably occupy, building on the foundations that Assassin’s Creed 3 set down by initially moving away from the stories of Ezio Auditore and towards the Kenway family.

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