For all the "Assassin's Creed" fans, the wait ends today. "Assassin's Creed IV-Black Flag releases today worldwide. The action-adventure today has been launched for various platforms by Ubisoft. It has been released for the platforms Xbox 360, PS3, PC, Wii U, Xbox One, PS4.

New pirate adventure is believed to be a long and exotic play. It could easily stretch to 30 hours of play.

Storyline

The new game's main storyline revolves around the 18th century pirate Edward Kenway. Playing the long game players will adopt the role of the new employee of Abstergo Entertainment. Traversing through the wild seas, islands and historic places Edward gets entangled in the age-old secret wars between Assassins and Templars. The game will let you explore the open waters and innumerable islands while fighting the ship-to-ship battles.

Few Things to Know and Tips to Play the Game:

You will be the captain of the ship Jackdaw that can be upgraded with better armor and ammunitions and accompaniments such as black sails and more.

Edward the captain can boost his own abilities in many ways. Upgrades can be made available by hunting the forest animals. Look out for bigger animals like whales and sharks which can be hunted with rowboat and harpoons.

Exploring the surroundings is the key to earning additional weapons, armors and aids. So explore through the trinkets, while some of them maybe mere distraction but continual attempts will lead to rewards.

It is advised that one must sail a lot in the early goings of the game. Set the sail and start moving to where you're going but don't forget to loot at any opportunity available. The Fast Travel option is an incredible addition.

Don't forget you are a pirate in your Black Flag mission. So, undertake many acts of piracy, as many as you can and beat down a lot of ships to get easy upgrades for Jackdaw. It'll be helpful later. You will also get the opportunity to build up your fleet by commandeering the ships defeated by you.

To make essential upgrades with hunted animals you can find some animal hides at the general stores. These will help in making your arms and ammunitions stock stronger. The battle in "Assassin's Creed IV- Black Flag" becomes much more challenging than previous games so it is suggested to fight with guns and most importantly use smoke bombs.

Bank upon your visits to Abstergo offices and collect the audio diaries available there.

Don't miss out on optional mission objectives. Pay heed to these bonus challenges and play them. Sell sugar and rum collected from the ships looted and convert it into money that can be used to buy material for upgrades.

Unlike its previous games, "Assassin's Creed IV- Black Flag" offers a vast world to traverse through and explore. You will get to travel to Kingston, Havana and Nassau along with Italy of the Renaissance era.

If you are willing to explore a vast world of Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag and fight hard then the deadly waters would be fun for you. Abovementioned are few things to know and the tip to play this game is to defend Jackdaw well as it is the key weapon in the mission.