Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced review – a pirate’s life renewed

Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced – a pirate’s life for thee (Ubisoft)

Ubisoft remake one of the most popular games in the Assassin’s Creed universe but how does it fare when compared against today’s modern titles?

Along with the rest of the business world, video games have been getting increasingly focused on delivering shareholder value above absolutely everything else, the sector’s powerful aversion to risk becoming almost pathological. That’s spurred publishers not only to shutter entire studios, to avoid paying salaries, but also to demand remakes and remasters rather than new games, the theory being that if it was a hit once, it can be a hit again.<...