Black Games Archive

Context, Culture, and Representation


Assassin’s Creed: Freedom Cry

Developer: Ubisoft
Publisher: Ubisoft
Release Year: 2013 (DLC) 2014 (Stand Alone)
Platform: PS3/PS4/Stadia(2021)/Switch(2019 Compilation)/Win/Xbox 360/Xbox One
Genre: Action Adventure
Taxonomy: Playable Black characters; Black cultural traditions; Narrative themes; politics/ideology/history; voice acting/motion capture; mechanics; intersectionality

In this game you assume the role of Adéwalé, a former slave who is trained as an assassin and who found freedom as a pirate. He’s a trained Assassin who is shipwrecked acquired a ship and his crew to free other slaves and ultimately avenge them.

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