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[LycanXIII]

Rise up against slavery with Assassin's Creed Freedom Cry, available February 18th as a stand-alone title on PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 3 computer entertainment systems and February 25th on PC. Born a slave, Adewale found freedom as a pirate. Now, he has become a trained Assassin and an illustrious member of the Brotherhood. Forced to face his past, he sets out to free slaves and bring death to their captors. Originally released as an add-on for Assassin's Creed IV Black Flag, Adewale's epic adventure is now available as its own stand-alone title; purchase of Assassin's Creed IV Black Flag is not required.
Learn more at http://www.assassinscreed.com/freedomcry

No mention of an Xbox version, video states exclusive to Playstation.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKLQbvIoTUQ&feature=youtu.be

Assassinate if old.

 

[Minamu]

Finally free of its master! Will buy

 

[Tamanon]

It's a good idea, basically a really good demo of the series.

 

[brainzelda]

Oh I didn't know it was standalone. That's fucking awesome. Instant buy.

 

[marrec]

I like this trend of separating out DLC from the main game.

 

[Htown]

Sweet! How much?

 

[SJRB]

Freedom Cry is terrible though, so don't get hyped just yet.

 

[BibiMaghoo]

The price must be higher than if bought as DLC right?

 

[w00zey]

Freedom Cry is terrible though, so don't get hyped just yet.

That sucks. I had been saving it for down the road when I didn't have anything else to play.

 

[Steverulez]

Trailer says "exclusive to Playstation" but PC on 25th so perhaps its timed exclusive or something

 

[culafia]

Freedom Cry is terrible though, so don't get hyped just yet.

why terrible? without spoilers please

 

[Aim_Ed]

That sounds fucking rad.

 

[V_Ben]

Strange exclusive, but welcome I suppose for people who want the game as a stand alone experience.

 

[LycanXIII]

The DLC itself is $10, so I'd imagine $15 for the standalone?

 

[BY2K]

The character reminds me of that other guy from the leaked footage we thought was a reboot of Prince of Persia.

 

[morpix]

Adewale kinda looks like the same guy as in that Egypt demo that leaked.

 

[Aces&Eights]

Assassinate if old.

Not getting off that easy. You will have to follow/eavesdrop every single NPC in ACBF for 3 days straight....through the newfound city called "low fence town"

 

[Vico]

Would buy it on 360, as a first glimpse of the full game, which I'll take whenever I take an Xbox One.

 

[ampere]

I like this trend of separating out DLC from the main game.

Me too. If it's small DLC it might not make sense, but stuff like this and the Far Cry DLC it sounds like a great idea.

Though I admittedly haven't bought any DLC like that yet ;P

 

[Phamit]

So its the dlc but as standalone? You can still buy the dlc right?

Strange "not xbox" exclusive,maybe its the revenge for Titanfall lol

 

[keltickennedy]

I just 100% the DLC last night. Man, that was a headache. Some of the secondary objectives in the missions can be annoying as hell. There is one mechanic in the game that is kind of cool at first where you have to go around the city freeing slaves you see. Some will be following a slave master that has an alert radius around them in which he will be wary to your character approaching if you are in his view. This sounds fine, but these slave areas are still active during main missions. There have been many cases where I have been on one of those a main mission and all hell has broken loose because the slave masters where still on their routes and I got caught in their paths.

Freedom Cry is alright, but it had AC3 levels of annoyance.

 

[Ilúvatar]

Freedom Cry is terrible though, so don't get hyped just yet.

What makes it terrible? I've been trying to decide if I wanted to grab it because I actually kind of liked Adewale as a character.

 

[Aces&Eights]

Me too. If it's small DLC it might not make sense, but stuff like this and the Far Cry DLC it sounds like a great idea.

Though I admittedly haven't bought any DLC like that yet ;P

I'd be all over an ACBF Blood Dragon standalone. Have shark men with lasers sailing ships around some crazy dark waters.

 

[Blue Ninja]

Might as well get it on Steam then, if it's cheap enough. Own Black Flag on uPlay.

 

[RustyNails]

Django's Creed? Sold.

 

[marrec]

Me too. If it's small DLC it might not make sense, but stuff like this and the Far Cry DLC it sounds like a great idea.

Though I admittedly haven't bought any DLC like that yet ;P

Well, neither have I, but increased sales of this standalone type of DLC may encourage publishers to increase the quality of DLC in order to attract customers.

 

[SJRB]

why terrible? without spoilers please

My initial positive response got dampened by the incredibly small "city" and the extreme in-your-face slavery theme. Even though it feels great liberating slaves the first 20 minutes, you quickly realise how absurd it is with slaves respawning almost instantly after you liberated them which makes the task feel pointless. Not to mention it's everywhere you look - slaves in cages, slaves getting a beating, slaves being waterboarded, slaves running on rooftops in full freerunning mode trying to escape. It's absurd.

Ubi is as subtle as a brick to the face, the amount of slaves rescued is actually the ingame "currency" by which you unlock weapons and equipment.

I really liked it at the start and Adawale is a great character, but the game gets annoying extremely fast.

 

[IdreamofHIME]

Freedom Cry is terrible though, so don't get hyped just yet.

You are really the 1st person I've seen say this.

 

[jwk94]

Wait so this is dlc for ac4?

 

[Stumpokapow]

Holy shit Ubisoft WOW.

Activision might have been the first people to annualize a non-sports franchise, but Ubisoft will be the first to .... monthalize.... monthialize... *googles* this is literally not even a word that exists.

My hat is so off to you crazy bastards.

 

[Brazil]

Keeping up with the monthly Assassin's Creed games, I see. Nice.

We need a couple others to fill the slots in the first semester, though.

January - Liberation HD
February - Freedom Cry
March - ?
April - ?
May - ?
June - AC: Watch Dogs
July - ?

 

[BY2K]

Adewale kinda looks like the same guy as in that Egypt demo that leaked.

Yes, this is what I was referring too! Could they be the same thing?

 

[buddha0991]

Holy shit Ubisoft WOW.

Activision might have been the first people to annualize a non-sports franchise, but Ubisoft will be the first to .... monthalize.... monthialize... *googles* this is literally not even a word that exists.

My hat is so off to you crazy bastards.

You should look up what this is before you do this, I thought as a mod you would know better.

 

[SJRB]

Yes, this is what I was referring too! Could they be the same thing?

That shot is from a canceled Ubi project called "Osiris", which may or may not have been a Prince of Persia game, and which at this point may or may not have been converted to a future installment of Assassin's Creed.

But it's definately not the same thing as Freedom Cry.

 

[papersleeves]

I misread the name of the game for Freedom Fry :S

 

[Like the hat?]

Sweet. Makes the sting of no DLC for the Wii U version hurt a little less for me.

 

[SpideySenses]

How much of the World do you have access to? Wondering if I can get my pirate fix or if you're just stuck on land.

 

[buddha0991]

How much of the World do you have access to? Wondering if I can get my pirate fix or if you're just stuck on land.

It is small, but this place is not in the main game.

 

[SJRB]

How much of the World do you have access to? Wondering if I can get my pirate fix or if you're just stuck on land.

It takes place in a different location than the main game [Haiti]. It has one main "city" [village] and a small segment of sea with a couple of locations to explore. Some of those locations are literally nothing more than a beach with a treasure chest on them.

 

[Logash]

Sounds like a good idea. Why not release DLC as standalone experiences. Opens up the to much more people

 

[dragonbane]

The composer of Remember Me did the OST for Freedom Cry. I hope it has excellent music at least.

 

[Fushichou187]

I agree that Adéwalé Unchanined works great as a demo of sorts for AC4 and that people who might otherwise be disinterested in Kenway's story for $60 would bite at this if it were priced in the $5-$10 range.

It's hard not to notice though that they are releasing this during Black History Month here in the U.S. and... I don't think the media is going to exactly embrace Ubi for that decision. In fact I think we'll likely end up having to suffer through politicians and social commentators leveraging the timing of its release to rant about video games in general again.

That aside, the timing of the announcement however makes a nice comparison to the furor that followed the story yesterday of Ground Zeroes' purported length.

 

[Kuldar]

The composer of Remember Me did the OST for Freedom Cry. I hope it has excellent music at least.

I find that the music is the best part of this DLC.

 

[buddha0991]

The composer of Remember Me did the OST for Freedom Cry. I hope it has excellent music at least.

The music is very good.

 

[Kinyou]

Very odd to make this an exclusive.

 

[dragonbane]

I find that the music is the best part of this DLC.

The music is very good.

Excellent. As expected then. Deriviere is a god.

 

[Hobbestetrician]

Looks like I was on to something: http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=750992&highlight=

 

[Milennia]

Is the process of separating DLC from its main game a difficult/money/time consuming one?

I wonder if we can see a ton more of this as i love it.
Especially stuff like blood dragon where they made a different game out of it.

 

[buddha0991]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6cj8PVohxpE

They will probably use this as the title screen for the standalone I bet.

 

[Trakan]

People can joke about monthly AC releases, but this is great news IMO. I hope it sets a new precedent where all publishers release standalone DLC. I can rent the game at launch and just buy the DLC a few months later without needing the game.