I often come to Gaf looking for answers so I figured I'd post my experience with this game and hopefully it will help someone if they need it.... so two things, I used the India VPN trick to purchase the game, it worked but I had to set up a proxy in Uplay because the game was region locked, which finally unlocked it for me.
Second, the game would not launch... just kept going to a black screen in windowed mode. i tried relaunching several times, rebooting, reinstalling, verifying files... nothing worked. Spent hours trying to get to to launch... finally i came across a reddit thread that suggested that the game has issues with USB devices. Sure enough, i unplugged my Razer Tartarus and boom, the fucking game worked... so for people having issues with the game not launching, or maybe other things like the crushed blacks... try unplugging all USB devices and see what you get. Good luck.