The BBC's Tom Gerken plays the much-anticipated pirate game which has been remade from the ground up.

You 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. 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.