Ubisoft launches anticipated ‘Skull and Bones’ video game

‘Skull and Bones,’ the video game that Ubisoft has been delaying for years for various reasons, will be released on Friday

Ubisoft’s game “Skull and Bones,” early footage of which was shared in 2017, will be released on Friday, the company announced.

“Skull and Bones” is set in an open virtual world where players can sail solo or “form a pirate gang online and together terrorize the trade routes of the Indian Ocean,” the company’s creative director Justin Farren said.

Players take on the role of a shipwrecked pirate who starts with nothing and, through looting and bartering, tries to become the biggest pirate in the Indian Ocean.

7 years of anticipation

Despite swashbuckling seafarers being popular in film and other media, pirates have not been a common theme in video games.

In one rare example, Rare/Microsoft’s “Sea of Thieves,” released in 2018, took to the high seas and invited players to “be more pirate.”

But a few years after the success in 2013 of its pirate-themed “Black Flag” installment of the blockbuster franchise “Assassin’s Creed”, French video game powerhouse Ubisoft dove in with what it hopes will be a standalone franchise.

Ubisoft now needs to convince gamers that “Skull and Bones” is worth the wait and deserving of the expected $70 price tag.

Source: Newsroom