Is the Assassin's Creed Black Flag remake worth the 13 year wait?

Is the Assassin's Creed Black Flag remake worth the 13 year wait? Image source, UbisoftImage caption, It's a mystical quest to the isle of Tortuga... amongst other placesByTom GerkenTechnology reporterPublished3 minutes agoYou don't need to look hard to find a film or TV fan who will say a reboot is never as good as the original.Yet gamers often beg studios to remake their favourite titles and give them a new lease of life with modern tech.Some 13 years after its original was launched, Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced has been released to cash in on leaps in graphics and gameplay.But is it worth the wait?What Will We Do With a Drunken Sailor?Image source, UbisoftImage caption, Early 18th century Havana has received a significant uplift between the original game (left) and the remake (right)Assassin's Creed is one of the most popular franchises in gaming, having sold an estimated 230 million copies across its various iterations.I have played every single one of them and, like many gamers, would rank Black Flag among the best.That mainly comes down to its excellent setting - players take control of fictional Welsh pirate Edward Kenway in the Caribbean during the 1700s.While hardly the first game about piracy, it was by far the most successful. So it is no real surprise Ubisoft chose this as the first game in the series to remake.It opens with pirate ships in battle, swiftly followed with a lush tropical island on a sunny day. It all looks good, as you would expect from a big budget game in 2026.Image source, UbisoftImage caption, Do you think Edward's feeding the turtle arrr-tichokes?Early on, players are encouraged to dive underwater and are met with a fantastic coral landscape.The developers are keen to show off the fancy new graphics, and here the game holds its own.It is a lot brighter than the original, which suffered from something unaffectionately referred to as the "muddy era" of gaming (amongst other less publishabl...