Assassin’s Creed Pirates Demo

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Those of you who have been around the forum a while know that I am not a big fan of Ubisoft, their DRM or their Assassin’s Creed game franchise, however I do have to give credit where credit is due. Last year Ubisoft released a mobile version of their Assassin’s Creed 4 game to mobile devices called Assassin’s Creed Pirates. The cost was $4.99 and from the trailer and story line in the press release, it looked pretty good.

London, UK — December 5, 2013 — Today Ubisoft® announced that the next game in the award-winning Assassin’s Creed® franchise, Assassin’s Creed® Pirates, is now available for iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad and select high end smartphones and tablets on the App Store, on Google Play and on the Amazon Appstore for £2.99.

The year is 1716, the dawn of the Golden Age of piracy in the Caribbean. Players take on the role of Alonzo Batilla, a young and ambitious Captain who is embarking on an epic quest to find La Buse’s legendary treasure. Along his way Alonzo will cross paths with famous buccaneers including Blackbeard, Bellamy and Hornigold and find himself caught in the middle of the ancestral fight between Assassins and Templars.

In Assassin’s Creed Pirates, players will be tasked to manage their crew, upgrade their ship, recruit new crew members and engage in massive and brutal real-time naval battles to become the most feared pirate in the Caribbean.

Ubisoft Paris has developed a brand new mobile engine to bring groundbreaking 3D visuals to Assassin’s Creed Pirates. This engine is responsible for the breathtaking moving waters, lush islands, and gorgeous graphics that set new visual standards for mobile platforms.

For more information on Assassin’s Creed Pirates, please visit:
assassinscreed.com/pirates and www.facebook.com/assassinscreed

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Recently Ubisoft announced a browser based Demo of the game that was developed in a partnership with Internet Explorer. It was developed using HTML5, 3D WebGL graphics, and JavaScript. Assassin's Creed Pirates web demo is available for free play in five languages worldwide. This is also the first web game developed using the Babylon.JS open source framework.

In Assassin’s Creed Pirates, you step into the shoes of Alonzo Batilla, a young captain, racing his ship through the Caribbean seas, evading mines and other hurdles, amidst searching for treasure.

They also have a contest going on right now in which they want players to create a custom shader for the pirate ship from the Asssain's Creed Pirates web game using their online Babylon.JS editor. The grand prize is an Assassin's Creed Collector's Black Chest Edition and an Xbox One. Submissions will be judged based on the efficiency of the shader and its overall aesthetic appeal.

You can play the web browser Demo version of the game HERE, it does work with Firefox as well.

You can find out more about the contest on the developers web page and use the editor HERE, and you can download the official rules HERE!

Another interesting thing that happened during the research for Assassin’s Creed 4 Black Flag is Ubisofts researchers actually uncovered the story of a real pirate named Amaro Rodríguez Felipe, who terrorized enemy ships in the Caribbean and his native Canary Islands in the 1700's. They didn't stop there though, Ubisoft actually funded an archaeological dig to uncover the real story of this colorful privateer! I must say I am quite impressed with this, as the dig had absolutely nothing to do with the game and was purely for historic and scientific research. A rare thing from a gaming corporation. You can read that full story over at Newsweek!