Assassin's Creed: Rogue

Probably half of the story, that's what's missing. You know how in previous Assassin's Creed titles, the protagonist grows along with the story and the transition is subtle. This one is the most promising title in the series, it has everything that made the previous ones great and none of their drawbacks.

The stealth, sailing, fighting, everything is great, mission variety, even the story is great. But it's too sudden. I can see it's missing a lot. And a lot of the map will remain unexplored, at the end of the game. To see everything you really have to go out of your way to see them and it's no fun because it feels pointless. Shay's story is over why explore. Also, the story is disappointing. It has great potential and great protagonist but because it's rushed, it doesn't have the same impact. Even the ending is abrupt (I really liked the ending of Black Flag, even though we know things after that didn't go well for the Kenway family, but the game ended on a high note).

Let's talk about the present day story. A total let-down, again with great potential. Again, it's not bad but it's too short and the modern story doesn't even have a any kind of twist at the end.

It's the first game of the Assassin's Creed franchise where I completed and saw everything (100%) just because the story was so short that I've invented my own reason to explore. And still, that part was boring but the locations were way way better than anything in the previous titles.

Probably the most interesting character with a solid story just a shame it was so short could have done with a few more sequences atleast. Scenery and general adventure of the location didn't have me so eager to complete all the side missions unlike black flag. Nevertheless still a very solid game.

I'm a long time fan of this franchise, and love almost everything they've made. But as an Irish prison, it really Annoyed me that Unisoft would make a game centering around an Irish character, and then hire a Canadian accent and pay him to butcher the Irish Accent. There are many great Irish actors around! There is no excuse to have somebody fake being Irish, badly! I guess maybe other Non Irish players won't fear the terrible performance like an Irish prison would. So I don't recommend not playing it based on what I've said above.

Besides the voice acting, the game itself is a lot of fun! Especially if you enjoyed the Naval Gameplay in Black Flag.

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.

Rogue was basically black flag part 2. This is a great game in the saga and is totally under rated with such a different story to the other games. Good story, well animated, essentially a different point of view entirely.