Assassin's Creed: Rogue

Assassin's Creed Rogue is often overlooked, sandwiched between the release of Black Flag and Unity, but it deserves way more recognition. This game takes the classic AC naval formula and flips the script by putting you in the boots of Shay Patrick Cormac, a former Assassin turned Templar.

What makes it stand out is the unique perspective. Playing as a Templar instead of an Assassin adds a fresh twist to the series. Shay's character arc is compelling, and his motivations feel more personal and relatable than many other AC protagonists. The game also excels at storytelling, making you question both sides of the Assassin-Templar conflict.

The naval gameplay is as satisfying as ever, with ship combat and exploration feeling like an evolution of Black Flag. The icy waters and new environmental challenges add some variety. Plus, the connections to AC III and Unity make it a great piece of the franchise's overarching narrative.

On the downside, Rogue is relatively short, and a lot of its mechanics feel like a direct reskin of Black Flag. If you played that game extensively, this one might not feel as fresh. Also, since it was designed for last-gen consoles, it doesn't have the graphical polish of Unity, though the remastered version helps improve this.

Despite its flaws, Assassin's Creed Rogue is a must-play for any AC fan. If you love the naval combat of Black Flag and want a different take on the Assassin-Templar war, it's absolutely worth your time.

Assassin's Creed Rogue surprised me. I'm a die hard AC fan, and I'm so happy to say this was an excellent game. Although it really doesn't succeed in bringing new and exciting features to the series, it succeeds in being fun and engaging. In terms of gameplay, its basically a copy and paste of Black Flag. But Black Flag rocked, so might as well not fix what's broken. The real draw here is the story. Rogue has one of the best lead characters the series has ever seen. Shay Patrick Cormac. He's charming and charismatic, yet very conflicted. In the early levels of the game you play as Shay the Assassin. His missions bring him face to face with many different Templar agents. And the more of them he kills the more he starts to second guess himself and his creed. I won't spoil anything or you, but soon enough e joins the templars. When I first heard that the game would be taking this route I was quite skeptical. But I'm happy to say it was done perfectly. This made for an amazing story experience, and is among the best stories in Assassin's Creed Games and Games themselves. It really does well at making you care about Shay and his companions.

The game is an absolute blast to play. The only real bad thing is that the game is quite short. Really short. But still the 6 to 8 hours of the campaign will be worth the time and effort. Is this the best AC game? Well no. But its among the best and is definitely worth checking out for long time fans

This game is honestly one of the best games in the series. A close competitor of AC 2. It's so much like Black Flag and yet so much better. If it would have been a bit more longer, I would have loved it.

AC Rogue has grown on me throughout the hours of playing. Having come to it after Black Flag, it was normal that at first it seemed like a recycling of the previous game. Same game idea with four very defined environments: naval, land, urban, and Abstergo. Same idea of collectibles, treasure maps, shanties, computer decoding... But little by little, Rogue begins to become something unique, it manages to remove Black Flag from your mind, and in the end, you could almost say that Black Flag was launching from Rogue. The improvements carried out in Rogue are subtle, but they manage to polish the game, achieving a fluid and pleasant experience. The gameplay has been improved in various aspects. Navigation, lack of realism aside, is now smoother with an improved docking and return to ship system. The setting of the game is, in my opinion, more successful than in Black Flag. The existence of two naval environments, the fluvial and the marine, gives variation to the naval aspect of the game. The cold makes it possible to generate more striking outfits, limit the stay in the water, incorporate beautiful details like the vapor or the appearance of Nordic fauna. In addition, the city present in the game has been developed with great care. The first impression when arriving at New York is the same as when arriving at Constantinople: a living, enormous city, in my hands to explore every corner of it. I hadn't felt the same on the last few games. The soundtrack is amazing. Elitsa Alexandrova's work is incredible, and it seemed to me to be the best music in the entire saga to date. It blends perfectly with the atmosphere of the game.

There are also, however, some points that haven't been improved, especially the game menus. It is difficult to read the notes or descriptions. There are menus that seem incomplete, like the one for the different ships. And the option of being able to browse weapons and outfits from the menu without being able to equip them seems a bit absurd. The idea of collectibles that, by their very nature, you can't collect until late in the game, so you usually don't have any game left to enjoy the rewards, and the fact that outfits don't provide distinct abilities (I must Note that some outfits did have an associated ability in Black Flag) making the outfit you decide to wear a bit irrelevant, are something that Ubisoft should improve for next installments.

About the present time, the game continues with the story of Black Flag but with hardly any script developed. The degree of immersion of AC 3 is not achieved. However, in my opinion, the hacking of computers has been improved.

Lastly, and almost most importantly, Rogue is a vital game for the series to better understand the story of AC 3, Black Flag and, I imagine, Unity; to fill in blank spaces, and to give more depth to all the main characters. One is left with the desire to play AC 3 again, but the desire to continue with Unity is bigger.

In short, Rogue is one hundred percent recommendable. With very few errors. Almost the most notorious are graphic errors in the design of the scenarios and environments. And it is an essential game for those who love the Asassin's Creed franchise and for those who have played AC 3, Black Flag and even Unity.

Unlike other assassins creed games, this game only has 6 sequences. Six is not enough for a story with such potential; an assassin turned Templar. A lot of information was thrown at me all at once and it tried its best to connect assassins creed 3 to 4 but it just happened too quickly.

Another thing is the maps, it has 3 large maps and the story does not naturally make you explore all of the map. Leaving huge amounts of unexplored areas wasted by the end of the story.

Apart from those criticisms, the game is still very fun to play, the game mechanics are fluid as any assassins creed game and the side activities are generally quite fun despite being a bit of a grind at the end.