Developer/publisher Ubisoft (Singapore), Format PC, PS5 (tested), Xbox Series Release Out now
Prior to your maiden voyage in Skull And Bones, there is a moment that premonishes just how fundamentally misguided this whole enterprise is.
Before you’re allowed to disembark, you must agree to ‘play nice’ and ‘play fair’, assenting to a code of conduct that is essentially the antithesis of the value system of the profession it depicts. But then, as you ‘press any button to rule the seas’ – a prompt that itself speaks to the hollow power fantasy many blockbuster videogames have become – you discover that this is not, in fact, the pirate simulator (sans stealth) that players of have been eagerly anticipating. Rather, it