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  • I'm in Italy checking out Ubisoft's swashbuckling, ship sailing, sea shanty Assassin's Creed

  • 4 Black Flag, try saying that ten times fast... and while I'm here, I'll be chatting to some

  • experts to find out just how authentic the pirate experience in the game is.

  • Swashbuckling ship sailing sea shanty, swashbuckling ship - ah forget it. Anyway for Assassin's

  • Creed 4 Ubisoft were not just content with fighting their way through different periods

  • in history, they wanted to give players the entire Caribbean to explore. And to do it

  • they give you a ship and an entirely new assassin.

  • "In Assassin's Creed 4 we follow the life of Edward Kenway, he's a pirate, very early

  • in the game he comes into contact with the assassins and templar, he kind of crosses

  • paths with the Assassins and Templars conflict and being a pirate with selfish motivations

  • of his own he thinks he can kind of work this conflict to his advantage and become a man

  • of sort of riches and infamy. "

  • But while the order of assassins in the game has strayed into fictitious territory, pirates

  • were very, very real but probably struggled to write down their history with their hook

  • hands - so where did Darby go to get his information?

  • "The first place to go when you research the golden age of piracy, this is the period from

  • 1650 to about 1725, is a guy named Charles Johnson, Captain Charles Johnson, his book

  • the General History of Pirates. This book came out literally 6 years after Blackbeard's

  • death. It's a collection of kind of fantastical reports, rumours and newsclippings of actual

  • real pirates. In terms of media I didn't watch too many pirate movies, I found them a little

  • too fantastical, a little bit too campy. Even books like Treasure Island and Peter Pan those

  • kind of begin the Victorian age rehabilitation of pirates as dashing rogues."

  • So pirates didn't buckle swashes or have improbable love triangles with Keira Knightley and Orlando

  • Bloom, but according to historical weapons expert and sword fighting ninja Mike Loades

  • they used plenty of weaponry - just like the assassins from AC.

  • "Pirates used a whole range of weapons cause they had a whole range of jobs to do. You

  • need big artillery when you're chasing a ship down from a distance, you need muskets when

  • you're trying to clear the decks from relatively close by, you need pistols as you go over

  • the side, you need boarding pikes and boarding axes when you're really laying about them,

  • or cutlasses or daggers when you're below deck and there's no space at all. So they

  • had to have this wide arsenal of weapons."

  • So plenty of weapons is a pirate staple, but apparently most of them weren't all that interested

  • in killing. Just ask one of the most infamous pirates ever, Blackbeard.

  • "I'm not a man accustomed to murder Captain, and if you'd taken quarter you'd not be seeping

  • now"

  • I actually meant the guy playing Blackbeard in the game, but whatever.

  • "A lot of people say, or think of him as the scourge of the seven seas, but he invented

  • this kind of persona which enabled him to, a very clever thing to do, enabled him to

  • be successful as a pirate. But keeping the body count to a minimum by using his reputation.

  • He understood the power of reputation, if you're reputation precedes you and people

  • are absolutely terrified then they'll more than likely give up whatever booty they have

  • to save their neck."

  • So whether you see them as dashing rogues, vicious killers or poor souls with terrbile

  • depth perception it's hard to deny the simple fact that people love pirates.

  • "People like them because they fall squarely in the middle of freedom fighters slash criminals,

  • it's the same reason I think we like gangsters today. I think pirates are actually kinder

  • than gangsters. Pirates weren't that interested in murdering people. There were certainly

  • a few dastardly pirates, but most pirates were just bank robbers on the high seas. I

  • think we can all kind of, with the passage of time we can all accept some robberies,

  • especially when it's against empires, you know."

  • One man's cutthroat is another man's captain. And it's this level of ambiguity that seems

  • to lie at the heart of Black Flag's motley crews. And in that way the pirates of Assassin's

  • Creed 4 are way more authentic than a certain Mister Sparrow.

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