“You may have already sailed the Jackdaw over every inch of the Caribbean, but that doesn’t mean you’ve seen everything that ‘Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag’ has to offer,” writes Jeff Rubenstein on Major Nelson’s blog.

With the game’s first downloadable content due out for Xbox One and Xbox 360 on Dec. 17, Major Nelson asked Ubisoft Community Developer Gabe Graziani for some insight into the “Freedom Cry” content.

While it has been decades since Adéwalé earned his freedom from slavery, “his hopes of escaping the foul business of human trafficking are dashed when he finds himself embroiled in conflict,” Graziani says. “Faced with a situation in Port Au Prince, Haiti that he can neither abide nor ignore, Adéwalé must confront his past and fight to liberate the slaves confined there and in Saint-Domingue, Jamaica and Cuba.”

There are some brand new mechanics that “govern Adéwalé’s system of upgrades and equipment, rewarding you for freeing slaves throughout the West Indies and surrounding open ocean,” he says. “Not only will you gain access to more lethal weapons and tools, but also new upgrades for Adéwalé’s ship: the Experto Crede! Hunt down and destroy ships escorting massive slave galleons to rescue hundreds of slaves and paralyze the slave economy.”

To read the full post, head over to Major Nelson’s blog.

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Suzanne Choney
Microsoft News Center Staff