Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Is Getting A Remaster?
The long-awaited Skull & Bones, Ubisoft’s game centered around pirates and pirate adventures on the high seas, still lingers in development hell; all the while, Ubisoft is shifting its focus on yet another game centered on pirates—you’ve guessed it, Ubisoft is remaking 2013’s Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag.
Ubisoft is remaking Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag with the help of Ubisoft Singapore
This shouldn’t be all that surprising. The company we all knew and loved for the fantastic gaming releases it launched in the early 2000s is now doubling down on its most popular franchises—well, one of them, to be honest, everything else is sidelined.
According to Kotaku, Ubisoft is remaking Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag with the help of Ubisoft Singapore, which is heavily involved in helping the game come to life once again. The project is still in the early stages of development, and it likely won’t be complete for years to come.
Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag is perhaps the second-best Assassin’s Creed title, right behind Assassin’s Creed II
Honestly, this is good news if we’re discussing Ubisoft‘s actions on a case-by-case basis. Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag is perhaps the second-best Assassin’s Creed title, right behind Assassin’s Creed II, and before the entire franchise became sorry versions of better Tomb Raider releases.
Ubisoft has declined to comment on the matter, and things are still at the level of speculation and unconfirmed hearsay from several Ubisoft employees—which ultimately isn’t indicative of anything barring official confirmation.
Assuming that the remake of Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag is really in development, it would be interesting to see just how much of the underlying gameplay and systems will be modernized and enhanced to fit the open-world RPG take of the later Assassin’s Creed releases, such as Origins, Odyssey, and Valhalla.
This is particularly true with the most interesting aspect of the game, which is naval combat, and Ubisoft really has the opportunity, and the technology, to make the remake into something better rather than a simple remaster for the current-gen consoles.
When will Assassin’s Creed’s new title, Skull & Bones release?
But we still have to address the elephant in the room: when will Ubisoft stop focusing solely on Assassin’s Creed and wrap up the games that are currently sitting in development hell? Skull & Bones has been in development hell since forever set to release possibly in 2024. Beyond Good & Evil 2 has been in development hell since 2009, and Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time has been in development hell for more than two years now.
At the same time, Ubisoft took its sweet time to develop a Prince of Persia title that has polarized the franchise’s fandom.
Alternatively, the company doesn’t need to wrap these games up. A simple public statement about the games being canceled is still closure for those eagerly awaiting said titles.
Square Enix did something similar with their canceled Legacy of Kain: Dead Sun; they took the nearly finished game, shelved it, and stated publicly that it wasn’t the right game at the right time. Done deal, and the fandom, discontent as they are, can now turn their focus on other releases that will never live up to the classics we were promised.
But we’ll always have Ubisoft with yet another Assassin’s Creed game.
