Assassin’s Creed Freedom Cry goes stand-alone

What was once a DLC add-on for Assassin’s Creed 4: Black Flag, the Freedom Cry expansion will also be released as a stand-alone package that does not require the base game.

Strangely, Xbox is getting no love, and Freedom Cry will only be available on PC (25 February), PS3, and PS4 (19 February).

Freedom Cry

Freedom Cry is a nine mission self-contained story featuring Edward Kenway’s first mate Adewale. Born a slave, Adewale found freedom as a pirate aboard the Jackdaw as Captain Edward Kenway’s second-in-command. Fifteen years later, Adewale has become a trained assassin and finds himself shipwrecked in Saint-Domingue with no weapon nor crew, starting a new adventure of his own.

18th-century Haiti is home to the most brutal slavery in the West Indies. In an effort to get back to the sea, Adewale assists the locals in exchange for a crew and a ship. The more he fights for freedom from slavery, however, the more he is drawn into the Maroon slave community, forcing him to face his vicious past.

Freedom Cry

In the game, Adewale will take his new crew and set of weapons, including a machete and a blunderbuss, to assassinate enemies and free slaves, delivering merciless justice in plantations and cities alike. No stranger to the sea, Adewale will command a fearsome brig to take down slave owners in the Caribbean.