Assassin's Creed: Black Flag Resynced Ramps Up Edward Kenway's Caribbean Story, But Boots Its Previous Modern Day Sections and DLC Overboard

Assassin's Creed: Black Flag Resynced, Ubisoft's long-awaited pirate game remake, will feature major changes when it launches on July 9 — with the addition of new story quests and characters, but the removal of several key features. In a detailed presentation on the game attended by IGN, Ubisoft explained that it had decided to focus solely on the single-player story of Black Flag's pirate-turned-Assassin Edward Kenway, meaning that the game's Freedom Cry DLC has not been integrated, its original multiplayer mode has been ditched, and its previous playable modern day sections have been excised. Some small modern day story offering will still be included, it sounded like, though the exact details of this are unclear. One things for sure, though, you won't be wandering around the offices of Abstergo Entertainment as you once did — something that leaves unanswered implications for the game's bloodline-related story. "With Resynced, we made a clear choice," Resynced creative director Paul Fu said. "It is a pure, story-driven adventure, and we are fully focused on Edward's adventures in the Caribbean. As a result of this focus, we have elected to not have the multiplayer, or the DLC. Re