14 DAY TRIAL // Assassin's Creed 4: Black Flag is set to be an absolutely massive game in terms of content, according to developer Ubisoft Montreal, which confirmed that the main story alone takes 20 hours to complete, while secondary activities are also worth about 50 to 60 hours.
Assassin's Creed 4: Black Flag is set to make its debut at the end of the month for the PS3 and Xbox 360, and in November for platforms like PC, Wii U, PS4, or Xbox One.
The new game, as you could tell from all the different videos released by Ubisoft, is quite impressive and promises to keep players entertained for quite some time.
According to Lead Game Designer Jean-Sebastien Decant, who talked with OPM, the game's story campaign lasts around 20 hours and there are a lot of secondary activities that need to be completed.
"We have so much content it’s quite crazy to say it. The main story is at least 20 hours. In the open world you have stuff to do for at least 50 or 60 hours. You have super-ships at the corners of the map, which are ships you wouldn’t be able to destroy until you are maxed up, then you have to understand the Captains which are like in-game bosses."
"So 20 hours to finish the main story, 60 hours to kill the ships and we are really trying to sort of tie both in together. So for instance sometimes you need to upgrade your ship to survive in a mission, so then you’ll probably start to wonder outside the main game."
What's more, the game's world will also be quite large and requires around 15 to 20 minutes in order to traverse it on sea.
"I wouldn’t be able to give you any numbers, but what I can tell you is we have three big cities, compared to the other games, there’s three huge cities and then fifteen unique locations – like continents – throughout the world, and then lots of [islands where] you can find buildings, stuff like that."
"The size of the map is like fifteen, twenty minutes, if you were just to sail without stopping, so that’s huge. We really tried to increase the feeling of adventure. At the same time it has to be easy to use so we added a number of teleports, in fact every [objective] you do becomes a teleport. So as you soon as you win somewhere, you can send people there."
As such, Black Flag owners should expect to spend a lot of time with the new game.