


Assassin's Creed 4 is more comfortable wandering the ocean in search of one big score. The inclusion of Assassin's Creed's fiction feels haphazard and often cursory even assassination feels perfunctory. Edward isn't the series' traditional lead, and his absence of allegiance hangs throughout the game. Assassin's Creed 4 is content to sit on the edges of that greater conflict. Previous Assassin's Creed games - particularly the main, numbered games - have revolved around the war between Assassin and Templar, the turning points, the meaningful moments. Edward is shipwrecked and soon drawn into the conflict between the authoritarian and power-hungry Templars and their enemies the Assassins. Assassin's Creed 4 stars Edward Kenway, a pirate in the turn-of-the-18th-century Caribbean.
