The prospect of a remake of AC's fourth game brought forth more excitement over the years than many of gaming's heaviest hitters. When Black Flag Resynced was announced, that anticipation reached new heights.
"If you ignore the numbers, Black Flag has a lot of really incredible things behind it," Knight began.
"And so, when you put all those things together, it sounds like, 'Wow. That's a great thing,' and then you go, 'OK, what are the things we could do to bring that forward into the future and make it a modern game?' There's a lot of opportunity there too."
"Everybody remembers Black Flag. Everybody loves Black Flag. So it was critical for us to nail that feeling, so when people play, they go, 'That's Edward; that's not just an imposter,' right?
"It's not important in a remake for everything to be pixel-accurate, but it's important to have the same feeling and spirit across everything you do, so even the new stuff feels like it's authentic to the old."
"It's on a case by case basis, but there are certain things where, when you play the original, they were great for their time but they feel a bit hard to deal with now," Knight, who also directed AC Shadows, explained, "like tailing mission that kills you instantly, or not being able to crouch anywhere.
"There's stuff like the combat system, where we knew that Shadows wasn't a fit for us, but the original Black Flag also wasn't quite right for where games should be today.
"So this is one where we needed to start fresh and stick to the spirit of how Edward fights, but have a new sort of skill-based approach that allows you to still win quickly if you know what to do, but also be based a lot on how you play."
"Everybody's memory is more 4K than 4K; they'll remember Edward looking maybe even better than we have him now, right?
"[The feedback] has been very important because we can use those memories to help align where we go, because part of it being a faithful remake is not just what exactly was original game, but what was the feeling players got from it, and what did they take away from it?"
I asked Knight why he believed players were so eager to relive these experiences.
"There's one little thing we added [to Resynced] that's near and dear to me, which is you can put the hood up and down whenever you want. And it's such a small thing, but you weren't able to do that before.
"Having those 'what ifs' and bringing those new things to that authentic old experience, it just makes your imagination think about what else you can do now with that thing you thought you knew."
He responded thoughtfully, "I would say that sometimes it's the industry's response to realising, 'Oh, how did we build that thing back then that people loved?', and sometimes it's a way to reconnect that feeling, right?
"We're trying to make you dream a bit and go, 'What if that game came out today? What if this was this fresh idea?' Based on everything you know about Assassin's Creed and other games, what kind of experience can you have today?
"There's something for you to dive in and explore, and we hope with this one that there's enough new and interesting things there – in terms of content, your controls, your gameplay – that you'll want to experiment. You'll want to see what can happen."
"The cool thing about the brand is that any time and any place, there's always interesting characters. There are always interesting things going on.
Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced releases on 9 July 2026 for PC, PS5 and Xbox Series X/S.
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