DLC #114 - Assassin's Creed IV : Black Flag - Freedom Cry

Freedom Cry, the Single Player expansion pack offering from Assassin's Creed IV : Black Flag, adds 6 additional trophies to the full list, and focuses around the side-story of Edward Kenway's sidekick, Adewale, a black pirate who's goal is to liberate black slaves from the isles of Port-au-Prince, a end the reign of tyrant Pierre de Fayet, all within a new world for the player to explore, albeit of a much smaller scale.

The list itself is very vanilla. There is a string of 9 new story missions specific to the expansion, complete with their own optional objectives, and full completion of these to 100% will award the singular gold trophy, "His Full Attention", which tops off the package. You will also be awarded a trophy for just merely reaching the end of the story.

As with the main game, the story missions are very standard, and none of the optional objectives will create any difficulty barriers, leading to a completion time of around 3-4 hours for the story alone. This timescale goes by the assumption there's no requirement to replay any missions in order to achieve any of the optional objectives, so it's advised to complete the optional objectives as you go along.

Trophies are also awarded for the liberation of slaves, which is the other big part of this expansion, aside from the new story arc. The "Seeds of independence" trophy, awarded for liberating 500 slaves will ensure you explore enough of this new feature, and slaves can be liberated through a series of randomly generated activities throughout the map. These will range from smaller activities, which liberate less slaves, such as freeing them from a cage, or disrupting a slavers auction, to larger activities, which liberate greater numbers of slaves, such as ridding plantations of slaver influence, or hijacking a slavers ship.

It is important to note that, there is a requirement to liberate at least 350 slaves as part of the progression throughout the main story, and you won't be able to accept specific missions as a consequence of not meeting this minimum requirement, so this is actually mandatory to full completion, at least up to a certain point anyway. There is a clean-up operation required to reach 500, but all you need to do is stick to the larger activities, where you can liberate larger numbers of slaves at once, and you'll reach the target number in no time.

Overall, this package should only take a handful of hours to complete. Somewhere within the region of 5-7 is a fair estimate, and the ever easy gameplay of Assassin's Creed Single Player adventures will help you on the way to an easy 100%.