


Teams are constantly taking the opportunity to escape to the balcony for meetings, smoking in the sun under the French Alps' lower peaks. Wafer thin coders and artists are packed into every corner of its guts, screens crammed onto every spare half-a-desk. One of Ubi’s oldest French studios, the Assassin's Creed 4: Black Flag multiplayer developer looks as though it’s about to start vomiting staff. Ubisoft Annecy is fuller than Mr Creosote. It releases this autumn for 360, PS3, Xbox One, PS4, Wii U and PC. There'll be no naval combat in multiplayer, unfortunately.Īssassin's Creed 4: Black Flag is themed on pirates and set in the Caribbean. The fourth version of Assassin's Creed's online play features an expanded Wolfpack co-op mode and Gamelab, a system for creating custom modes. Patrick Garratt got to grips with the franchise's first next-gen multiplayer in Annecy earlier this month. Assassin's Creed's online play has a huge amount to offer would-be pirates this autumn.
