Pirates Portrayed In Assassin's Creed IV Black Flag

When people think of pirates they think often think of the phrases; Avast! Walk the plank! Me hearty! and most famously Aargh! Truthfully though pirates did not often say any of these phrases, well except for maybe aargh, this is just how the media, and pop culture has portrayed pirates. Real pirates are nothing like what we see in most forms of media, that is except for the case of the game; Assassin’s Creed IV Black Flag. Black Flag very accurately depicts the lives of pirates during the golden age of piracy. Black Flag a game about Edward Kenway, a pirate who becomes an assassin, joins the pirate republic and fights alongside famous pirates from the golden age of piracy The famous pirates that were depicted in the game were very accurately portrayed from what is known …show more content…
Even the cargo that is plundered from ships is accurate to what was actually plundered from ships during that time.Where the game takes place, or the cities where Edward free runs around, are very accurate as well. Black Flag does something that not a lot of other games do nowadays, in that it accurately displays a time in history. The famous pirates that are depicted in Black Flag include that of; Edward "Blackbeard" Thatch, Benjamin Hornigold, Mary Read, Stede Bonnet, Anne Bonny, Calico Jack, and Charles Vane, all of these men and women were very accurately depicted in the game. Edward Thatch, or as many know him Blackbeard, is probably the most famous real pirate of all time. In real life Blackbeard acted like crazy fearsome man so that all who would oppose him would run in fear instead of fight him straight on. This is shown in the game where in one scene he is seen with lit cannon fuses in his beard, which was something he was known to do, while he interrogates a member of the french navy. Benjamin Hornigold was Blackbeard’s captain before he became the fearsome man of legend that we know today. In history he is most famously known