http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRAn_8baQa4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJ9N2hX9S0s
Ubisoft promisses a truly open world of land and sea:
- the dividing line between naval and ground based exploration no longer exists
- players will be spending plenty of time on the open ocean, travelling between the game's three main hubs and exploring the world's many extra islands and hidden secrets
- City-based exploration is still key to the series, Ubisoft stressed
- Havana, capital of Cuba is described as the most European-style city in the game, like AC2's Florence but under the Caribbean sun. There's also Kingston, a British town similar to AC3's Boston, surrounded by plantations and tobacco fields. Finally, players will explore Nassau, a base for Bahamian buccaneers, and the most traditionally piratey area of the game
- Kenway can explore submerged wrecks that lie on the ocean bed bursting with treasure
- Ubisoft is building 50 locations for the game, dotted around the Caribbean map for players to uncover(...) hidden coves full of smugglers, smaller fishing villages,... remote tobacco-rich plantations for some land-based piracy, the series' traditional forts, more Mayan ruins, coconut tree desert islands where you can pick up marooned men for your crew and thick, dense areas of jungle to explore.