Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag

This game rules. Come at me, bro.

Not enough rape but just enough ship battles to make you almost feel like a pirate. It's shocking when an assassins creed game isn't immediately thrown in the garbage after slogging through the exact same tutorial again.

The series takes a left turn after the all-in-all underwhelming AC3 and let's you be a pirate. What's not to like.

Man the ship battles are fun.

When AC2 spawned it's own character sequels, it was expected AC3 would go the same way so it was quite a surprise to see the fourth numbered game not only appear so quickly, but mark as a return to form with an entirely fresh sea battle section to boot! To be honest, I think there is too much time spent sailing from location to location, but this is still a worthy entry in the franchise, and definitely offers a change to the standard free running gameplay.