User blog comment:Master Sima Yi/Assassinews 03-03-'13 — Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag trailer and screenshots/@comment-4254431-20130304190015/@comment-4975789-20130304214147

Hopefully the assassination missions, or at least some of them, are done in the same way as AC1; that is, you go to a general area where your target is and are told to kill them. That's it. I don't want linear assassinations.