Ever since Ubisoft brought Assassin's Creed onto the world, the titular assassins' trademark weapon, the hidden blade, has quickly become "the" hot poke-your-eye out piece of hardware, and a real life version would be something that any gamer, knife lover, or anything in between would be proud to own. Thing is though, fully working spring-loaded knife gauntlets aren't the easiest thing to find, save for short of rubber and plastic amalgamated reproductions. But if you want the real thing, you're going to have to make it yourself, or get someone with all the know how and a lot of talent to craft one for you.
Enter once again, Tony Swatton, the Man at Arms. The consummate propmaker has tackled Cloud's infamous buster sword from the cherished Final Fantasy VII, an orcish battleaxe from The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, and countless other weapons from pop culture. With the newest Creed game, Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag, now available, Swatton took to making the blade of the latest protagonist, privateer turned assassin Edward Kenway.
Check out Swatton work his magic in the video below.
Black Flag is the first prequel in the Creed franchise, and sees players controlling ACIII protagonist Connor's grandfather, Edward Kenway, a former Royal Navy man for the British crown turned pirating privateer in the blue waters of the Caribbean. The game takes place somewhere around 1713, long before the last time we saw any vestige of the assassins, the American Revolution. The colonial frontier of the new world has traded in for the warm waterfronts of Nassau, Havana, and Kingston, with historical figures such as the infamous pirate Blackbeard, Calico Jack, Charles Vane, and others appear.
Like in the Vita exclusive Assassin's Creed 3: Liberation, Desmond Miles doesn't have a role in Black Flags, having been replaced with an Abstergo researcher.
For both the PlayStation 3 and 4, Ubisoft has promised additional, exclusive content in the form of extra missions with the heroine of Liberation (which isgetting its own PS3 port), Aveline de Grandpre. The first female assassin will be featured in as many as three bonus missions. It's also been revealed that players will seen Aveline again soon enough. Originally a handheld only title on the PS Vita, Liberation is going HD, and will be ported to the PlayStation 3 and is set to hit the PlayStation Store as a digital download January 14, for $19.99.
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag is available now for Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. It will hit PC on November 22, and be a launch title for the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One on their respective launch dates.
