The game was released for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 on 29 October 2013 worldwide, while on Wii U and Microsoft Windows it was released on 19 November 2013 in North America and on 22 November 2013 in Europe.
plot
In June 1715, off the coast of Cuba, the pirate brig Jacobite engages in a fire fight with the British frigate HMS Intrigue. Thanks to Edward Kenway's ability as helmsman, the pirate ship manages to sink the enemy vessel. However, a mysterious man on the English frigate manages to save himself from the shipwreck and climb to the Jacobite, killing the captain. Before the man can even attack Edward, the brigantine's powder magazine explodes, sending the two men overboard. Edward swimed to the beach of Capo Bonavista, where the mysterious, visibly wounded man also arrives. This asks Edward to help him reach Havana in exchange for a large sum of money. Interested only in spoils, however, Edward tries to rob the man, who decides to find refuge in the forest. Edward chases the man in the forest and, after having reached him and hired a fight with him, he eliminates him. Searching the body without life, Edward discovers that the man did not bring money with him, but only a mysterious glass cube, some maps and a letter signed by the governor of Cuba, Laureano Torres y Ayala. Thanks to the letter, Edward discovers that the man would receive a large reward if he had delivered the documents and the cube to the governor. Aware that the two men had never met, Edward wears the man's clothes and decides to go to Havana to get the reward in his place. After saving the merchant Stede Bonnet from some British soldiers who believed him to be a pirate, Edward got a ride to Havana from him.
In the present, in 2013, an employee of Abstergo Entertainment, a subsidiary of Abstergo Industries, is released by the Animus in which he has just relived a genetic memory of Edward Kenway and officially welcomed in Project 17 by his supervisor, Melanie Lemay . After showing the new employee the structure of Montréal and having presented to him the Chief Creative Officer, Olivier Garneau, and the head of IT, John Standish, Melanie makes him return to the Animus to make him relive new memories of Edward, essential for the creation of new entertainment products. The clerk returns to the Animus to continue exploring Edward's memories.
In Havana, Edward goes to the governor's mansion, where he meets Woodes Rogers and Julien DuCasse, also there to meet the man. From their speeches, Edward realizes that Duncan Walpole, the mysterious man Edward has taken the identity of, was willing to abandon the Order of the Assassins to join the one of the Templars, of which the governor and the two men are members. The three men subsequently meet Torres, to whom Edward delivers the documents and the glass cube. Speaking with the three men, Edward also understands that the objects delivered to the governor are necessary to access a place called the Observatory, which houses a technology that allows spying on any man on the planet. To access it, however, it is necessary to have a drop of blood from a man called Sage, who is also the only one who knows the exact location of the mysterious place. Intended to know more about the Observatory and to collect the promised reward, Edward agrees to meet the men again the next day at the port, where the Sage will arrive, taken prisoner by the Spanish soldiers.
The next day, Edward meets the Templars at the port, recovering a drop of the sage's blood. On the way to the governor's villa, where the man's interrogation was to be held, the Templars were attacked by a group of Assassins, intent on freeing the sage. During the battle, the Sage shows that he does not want to collaborate with either the Templars or the Assassins, who are eliminated. After conducting the Sage in the prisons of the villa, Edward receives from Torres the agreed reward. However, believing it to be inadequate, he decided not to collaborate with the Templars any more and to reach the Observatory by himself, convinced that it could be a great source of income. Thus, it is introduced into the villa with the intention of freeing the Sage. Reached the cells, Edward realizes that the man has already escaped and, surprised by the Templars, his true identity is discovered. Captured, it is then loaded onto the fleet of treasure headed to Spain and then delivered to the British Templars.
Taking advantage of the storm in which the fleet is blocked, Edward and a prisoner of African descent called Adéwalé free a large number of pirates and steal a brigantine called El Dorado, with which they then flee. After deciding to keep the brig for himself, renaming it Jackdaw, Edward goes to Nassau, an English city that has become a den of pirates, where he intends to start a new life dedicated to looting. Edward meets Benjamin Hornigold, Edward Thatch and James Kidd, old friends intent on making a pirate republic free from the yoke of European colonial powers in Nassau. For fear that the British navy attacks Nassau to free it of pirates, the men decide to capture a vessel and place it in front of the city's port as the first defense. Edward and Thatch thus follow El Arca del Maestro, a Spanish ship commanded by Julien DuCasse, to his hiding place in Great Inagua. Later, Edward assassinated DuCasse, claiming for himself and his crew his hiding place on the island.
In the present, the newly hired employee of Abstergo Entertainment is summoned by Olivier Garneu in his office. The man asks the clerk to concentrate his research on the place called the Observatory, as he was asked to report to him from the directors of Abstergo Industries. Soon after, he is contacted by John, who asks him with an excuse to violate a colleague's Animus and then deliver the files obtained to a courier in the atrium. The employee then returns to the Animus.
In March 1716, Edward and Kidd, exploring the island of Great Inagua, discuss the extraordinary sensory abilities of the former. Later, Kidd invites Edward to the Yucatan, where he will have something to show him about the Observatory, on which he seems to have a lot of information. Edward goes to Tulum, the Assassins' den, of which his friend is a member. There, their Mentor, Ah Tabai, welcomes Edward coldly because of the help he has lent to the Templars in Havana. However, being Edward one of the few to have seen the sage, he asks Kidd to show him an ancient Mayan monument, strangely depicting the features of the man seen in Havana a short time before. Subsequently, Edward helps the Assassins to reject an attack brought by the men of the slaver Laurens Prins, arrived in Tulum thanks to the maps sold by the pirate to the Templars. Despite his help, Edward is chased by Ah Tabai, who wants nothing to do with a selfish man like him.
In January 1717, thanks to Charles Vane and Jack Rackham, Edward learns that Torres is about to transfer a large load of money from Cuba. Edward later discovers that Torres intends to bring the gold to Kingston to redeem the sage, captured by slave driver Prins. Edward goes to Jamaica, intending to ask the man again about the Observatory. With the help of Kidd, actually a woman named Mary Read, Edward manages to assassinate Prins, but not to capture the Sage, who flees again.
In January 1718, while the rumor that King George I of England wanted to regain control of the Bahamas shows that pirates are forgiving all crimes committed in the past, the city of Nassau is hit by a severe epidemic. Thus, Edward and Thatch are committed to obtaining the rights for the city, which is finally recovered by Charles-Towne in the month of the same year, after a week of embargo.
Meanwhile, in the present, Melate Lemay and Laetitia in England. The clerk, under the pressure of the IT technician who threatens to report his illicit activities the week before, violates Olivier Garneau's computer and steals confidential files, also discovering that Abstergo is the first company of the Order of the Templars today. After the discovery, the employee returns to the Animus.
In July 1718, Woodes Rogers joined Nassau as the new governor of the Bahamas, residing with the pirates to obtain the grace of their crimes. While Hornigold seems inclined to accept the offer, Edward escapes from the city along with Vane and Rackham, breaking through the English naval blockade with a brulotto. So, share Thatch to Ocracoke, where the man intends to retire after accepting the pardon offered by the king. However, the den is attacked by the English navy and Thatch is killed under the powerless eyes of Edward. The man decides to continue his search for the sage with Vane and Rackham. However, after the seniors' subscriber was able to board, Rackham leads the crew in a mutiny against Edward and Vane, who are abandoned on a desert island. After months Edward manages to escape from the island, abandoning Vane to himself, and a recovery to his aisle.
Edward goes to Kingston, where he thinks he can find information on the slave ship on which the Sage has risen. There, he discovers that Benjamin Hornigold joined the Templars and sent John Cockram and Josia Burgess to PrÃncipe to capture the Sage. Thus, Edward goes to the island, the two Templars kill the dove, gaining the trust of the sage, who officially presents himself as Bartolomeo Roberts. The man has proposed to Edward a pact: he will share with him the riches of the Observatory if he does it to get what he needs. Edward helps Roberts recover some vials containing drops of blood and kills his old friend Hornigold for him. Finally, Roberts shares the contents of the Observatory with Edward; inside there is a mysterious artifact that can show what happened. However, recovered the object, Roberts betrays Edward and the show to the English authorities, who imprison him in Port Royal.
Meanwhile, in the present, the clerk was transferred to an underground bunker without his knowledge, where he will be held prisoner until he can understand who was responsible for the security breaches of the previous weeks. By pretending to want to help erase evidence that could lead executives to understand who is responsible for the violations of the Animi, John tries in vain to make sure that a mysterious entity takes possession of the body of the employee of Abstergo Entertainment. The clerk, shaken and a little frightened, returns to his cell and returns to the Animus.
After months spent in the prison of Port Royal, in the summer of 1720, Edward is freed by Ah Tabai, who requires his help to free Mary Read and Anne Bonny, also arrested for piracy but not yet condemned to death as pregnant. The two manage to free Anne, but not Mary, who dies three arms of Edward. Desperate for the loss of his ship, of a friend and of the treasure longed for years, Edward enters a spiral of self-destruction, until one day he meets Adéwalé. His old quartermaster returns the Jackdaw and asks him to go to Tulum. There, he discovers that his friend has joined the Assassins and, after understanding his motivations, decides to do the same to alleviate his guilt over them and to follow a more honorable cause of the mere search for wealth.
Trained by the Assassins, from May 1721 Edoardo began his hunt for the Templars, who accepted him to kill Woodes Rogers, Bartolomeo Roberts and Laureano Torres. Recovered from the pirate the precious artefact stolen years before by the Observatory, Edward and the Assassins bring him back to his place. After that, they seal the temple door to prevent anyone else from taking possession of the object.
In the present, Giovanni brings out the employee from the Animus, showing himself openly for the first time. The man, identical to the pirate Bartolomeo Roberts, reveals to be one of the Sages, the reincarnations of Aita, the husband of Juno. Then, inject a liquid into the body of Abstergo Entertainment with the intention of weakening enough to reach his wife to take possession of his body. However, the man is rescued by security guards, who kill John after breaking into the underground bunker. Assisted by the doctors of Abstergo, the employee is then reinstated in his workplace and thanked for his involuntary help by the bartender Shaun and the courier Rebecca, actually members of the Order of the Assassins, who ask him to continue a collaboration with them. The employee, after having lived this experience, decides to return to the Animus.
Reading the first letter of response from England after years spent at home, Edward learns his wife's death and has had a daughter, Jennifer, born a few months after the man's departure for the Caribbean. Thus, in October 1722, the pirate, now Assassin, greets his old friends and welcomes a large inagua daughter who has never known, with whom he then intends to return to England. Edward will then spend the rest of his life in London, where he will meet and marry a new woman, from which he will then have a second son, Haytham (father of Connor Kenway, protagonist of Assassin's Creed III, and future Grand Master of the Order of the Templars) , leading a life as a gentleman, and a murderer.
- OS: Windows Vista/7/8.1/10 - 32/64-Bit
- CPU: Intel Core2Quad Q8400 @ 2.6 GHz or AMD Athlon II X4 620 @ 2.6 GHz
- RAM: 2 GB
- Hard Drive Space Required: 30.0 GB
- Minimum Supported Video Cards: Nvidia Geforce GTX 260 or AMD Radeon HD 4870 (512MB VRAM with shader Model 4.0 or higher)
- DirectX: 9.0
- OS: Windows Vista/7/8.1/10 - 32/64-Bit
- CPU: Intel Core i5 2400S @ 2.5 GHz or better or AMD Phenom II x4 940 @ 3.0 GHz
- RAM: 4 GB
- Hard Drive Space Required: 30.0 GB
- Minimum Supported Video Cards: Nvidia Geforce GTX 260 or AMD Radeon HD 4870 (512MB VRAM with shader Model 4.0 or higher)
- DirectX: 10.0
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