Assassin’s Creed Rogue – soulless filler or the best game in the series?

Assassin’s Creed Rogue was deprived of attention from the release. The game came out at once on the seventh and on the then -relevant eighth generation of consoles at the same time from Unity, which pulled all the attention to herself.

Rogue went out and not so much content comes out, and therefore by the time I started to pass it, I knew almost nothing about her. Despite the fact that the game was accepted quite coolly, I expected to get a lot of good emotions from it, because, firstly, I, however,, like many others, intrigued the opportunity to look at the confrontation between the brotherhood and the order from the Templar, and secondly, my impressions of the games of the series often vary with the opinion of many other people. I like Assassin’s Creed III, despite the fact that many criticized her for the plot and, in particular for the main character. At the same time, in many ways I do not share delight about the same fourth part, although I understand what she was loved for, and I myself recognize the coolness of the same plot or sea battles, but in many other aspects the game did not suit me.

I launched Rogue immediately after Black Flag and, although I did not expect total changes in the game process from the game, but hoped at least for high -quality work on errors and correcting all (or at least most) jambs that spoiled my pastime in the fourth AC. In the end, I wanted to get just a high -quality game, which I will go thirty hours and leave from there not regretting that I spent time on it.

Whether my expectations were acquitted? Is Assassin’s Creed Rogue deservedly forgotten, like no one needs filler, or is it the best game in a series that has not been lucky to go out at the wrong time and on the wrong platform?

Plot

And you remember Batman: Arkham Origins? The association between Black Flag -> Rogue and Arkham City -> Arkham Origins will still not release me. A minimum of changes, which is why it seems that Rogue and Origins are more likely adds than full-fledged continuations, folk love for Black Flag and Arkham City and, conversely, mostly oblivion in their sequels. Because of this, I could not help but draw a parallel between these games in my head. I will say right away, Origins I went very much, moreover, I liked it more than City and ASYLUM, which allowed her to put her in second place in my personal top of the games of the Batman: Arkham series. But why?

Arkham Origins is in many ways an ordinary reskin Arkham City, and you can call it a full -fledged new part only with a small stretch. Gameplay from the previous game, an open world from the previous game, even a large number of villains migrated from the previous game. But the answer to the question of where my sympathy for Origins came from is very simple – the plot.

It was the plot that became for me that why I call this game the second best part of the series. A mundane, serious story (also with a cool setting of scenes) Origins with some, but still revealing the characters, surpassed the plot from City in my eyes and allowed the game to forgive all other shortcomings.

Actually, why am I all this. First, play Arkham Origins. And, secondly, to the fact that a good story can pull out a small number of innovations and not too interesting gameplay. Whether the plot of Rogue copes with this task? Ummm …No.

Let’s start with the present, the benefit is everything more or less definitely. The line of our time is a complete failure.

After Black Flag, I thought that the plot of modernity is worse than there could not be. But it turns out. If AC IV tried to create something really remotely reminiscent of the plot, even tried to prescribe and support the intrigue some turns, then in Rogue everyone did not care about it.

That in Black Flag, that in Rogue, a protagonist is an ordinary blank who has no voice or personality, and even in the game itself you are called not “guy”, not “hey, you” and not even “salag”, but simply a “blanch”. Of course, self -irony is good, the self -irony from Ubisoft is even better, but still this does not cancel the lack. As in the previous part, playing for the depersonalized hero is absolutely uninteresting and if in Black Flag the ABSTERGO ENTERTAINMENT was entertaining to wander due to new locations and curiosity that forced you to consider every corner of the secret of the Templars, then in Rogue the same locations are bored with the same locations on the same locations.

Yes, it is still very interesting to look for lost tablets and climb on someone else’s computers in search of Laura particles (which they piled up quite a lot here) and interesting information that continue to narrate what the brotherhood did after the death of Desmond. It was interesting to listen to the notes that they talk about the new particles of Eden, the activities of the Templars and the biographies of some of them. Although, in order to get to this very data, you need computers with this information by means of the simplest puzzle, which very quickly bothers.

I do not like modernity and from a visual point of view. In this sense, she roared me back in the previous part, but now the characters began to look as if twice worse. I don’t know, perhaps, the effect of the ominous valley is really present in this part of the game, or maybe I just turned me off so much from the plot that I began to see the rest of the aspects only in a negative way.

For example, in modern times I do not like faces, unlike the main campaign. At first I thought that this could be due to the fact that the main plot of the game passes with a third person, and the modern appendage is from the first. But even in the history of Shay, the characters are often demonstrated closely, which does not cause me absolutely no rejection.

It is unlikely that the textures are less of high quality in the present tense than in the past (although I do not exclude this option, but, unfortunately, I can’t say definitely), so most likely the effect of the ominous valley visited me due to the forms of the heads of the characters, which were made a little less naturally than in the main plot campaign.

Also, the quality of animations did not suit me at all, they are somewhat slightly unnatural, and this feeling again intensifies against the background of animations from the memories. And this can be traced not only in gameplay, but also in KAT scenes. Despite the fact that, apparently, in the history of the blanch and in the history of Shai, they are made on the game engine, in the plot of the first they are felt an order of magnitude worse.

By the way, moving along the past line, I sometimes experienced a cring during dialogues, but in the line of the present this unpleasant feeling was almost permanent.

What about the plot, then everything is pretty rotten. You play for the employee Abstergo Entertainment, which studies fragments of memory. After some time, you accidentally activate some kind of virus that disables the system of the company. Now you, together with security guards and, part -time by the Templars, from the head corporation will have to rake all this chaos.

But of course, getting rid of viruses is not the only task of the Templars. The ultimate goal of studying Shey’s memoirs …-Search for something in common between Assassins and Templars? In order to send these data to modern assassins later? To, I don’t even know, drop their moral spirit? At least I understood it. And as you see, these goals are quite vague.

We realized that under the slightest threat, the assassins actually want not freedom, but order.

Opo Berg

In the course of the plot, you will unequivocally hints that in the end you will have to choose the side and, or join the Templars, or die. They will tell you about this, both more or less veiled and right in the forehead, which I do not understand at all.

This is what the point is to put an ultimatum and threaten death if a person does not choose your side. After all, in most cases he will go to you, since he simply has no other choice. He will not become a Templar due to the fact that he was imbued with their ideals, but he will become because he does not want to be at the bottom of the river. Receiving such an ally, you always risk encountering a betrayal on his part. But if you had not put it before such a choice, then in the end he will decide and, or join his own will, or receive a bullet. But this is me so, I just find fault with the little things.

It is good that modernity at least occupies a very small timing (although, probably, this is in many ways the reason for such a low quality of execution), and most of the time you will spend the history of Shay Patrick Kormak.

In general, it is clear what was the original idea. Look at the conflict through the prism of a member of the order, show that in the battle of the ideals of the Assassins and Templars, everything is far from so unambiguous that this is not just a war of good with evil. The idea is good, but the implementation disappeared.

To begin with, they show us a worldview of not a formed Templar, like Heetem, for example, but a green boy who cannot decide on the side.

It seems that he asks the correct questions, indicates the contradictions in the ideology of the fraternity, but it is noticeable that he is not dedicated to all secrets. He does not know much about the brotherhood, what about the Order. Because of this, we are very little told about the essence of the Templars, about their goals, about their methods, and t. D. And in this regard, the game is very inferior to the same Assassin’s Creed III, which indicated the lips of Hatem and the failure of the utopia of the Assassins and, thanks to the same hatem, to grayness in the battle of two secret communities.

Moreover, Rogue screenwriters decided not to go to the other side of the barricade, but simply change these sides in places. Now we have white and fluffy Templars who want to protect the whole world, and the Assassins, on the contrary, are universal evil, which the same world wants to destroy.

And Monroe we have such a kind of goodness who cares about ordinary people and does not manage anyone, but only helps. And a hyst of all such a merryman without any universal ambitions, and in general their company is all so friendly, and all the people are polite, who will share a drink, and will not leave anyone in trouble.

I don’t manage, master feeder. I only help.

George Monroe

But on the other hand, Hope Jensen, a girl who decided to poison half a city, and this is actually a direct violation of the credo. Chevalier, an arrogant type, who doesn’t care where and for whom to beat from his mortar. Achilles, who does not hear his students, sends them to suicidal tasks and destroys the cities. Anyway, their society is unpleasant, there is one rabble around. In short, there is no gray morality that I expected, but I agree, my expectations are my problems.

By the way, I don’t quite understand where the monologues of the protagonist come from at the beginning and at the end of the game. After all, we look at the memories of a person, and not some kind of film, respectively, there can be no introductory speeches during the plot, but this is already completely nit-picking. But here’s what in the plot of Assassin’s Creed Rogue is really ambiguous and many causes mixed emotions-this is the main conflict of the whole game, or rather the reasons because of which it was untied.

Look, it all started with the fact that Shei unintentionally destroyed Lisbon, after which he accused Achilles, who allegedly knew everything. The main claim of many is that there were simply no games if these two discussed the current situation. And this is understandable. When you look at the story globally, it seems petty enough, because there could be a lot to avoid a lot, if two characters sat at the very beginning, listened to each other and came to some reasonable conclusion. Such a conflict tie in many ways depreciates the plot of the game, making it even a little ridiculous.

In addition, the accusations of the neck were built mainly on the fact that this was already happening in Haiti. And the fact is that the events in Haiti in the game really do not say anything, and therefore, by the time of the quarrel, the player does not fully realize the whole situation and, firstly, cannot fully understand who is right in this situation, and there are right at all. And, secondly, it again depreciates the conflict due to the fact that Shay’s accusations begin to seem uniform and inappropriate. Yes, you can draw information about the Haiti from notes, dialogs on the ship and dialogue between Achilles and Achilles. However, all this a player can easily miss the ears, and therefore it was necessary to say this so that no one would miss the moment and so that the player fully realized the scale of the tragedy.

But, let’s try to look at this conflict a little on the other side, from the part of the acquittal.

To begin with, Lisbon is only a spark in a powder barrel. Shei from the very beginning doubted the credo and openly spoke about the contradictions and his opinion on the ideals of the Assassins.

Beautiful words, Chevalier, but I do not feel free.

Shay

Achilles personally took up control of Shey and, it seems to me, the reason here is far from the fact that the feeder had a certain potential. It is likely that Achilles really did not trust Shey, which he guessed, and what Liam confirmed.

- Achilles does not trust me, so after all?
- This is for now, Shey.

Shay, Liam

“You might think we are much better,” Shay spoke about the methods of fraternity under Chevalier, with whom they had a conflict. But what if de la Verendry reported to Achilles about this, and the feeder began to suspect in sympathies to the Templars. In addition, Shey Oster is on the tongue and often speaks and acts without thinking.

What we have? Young Assassin, who shows great doubts in brotherhood and is not afraid to openly speak out about them. He can act in a combatant and, moreover, he feels distrust from his brothers. In addition, after what he heard about Port-o-play and after Achilles sent him to a similar mission, only in Lisbon, he expected, and this assumption was quite logical for me that Achilles originally knew, or at least guessed, about the consequences of visiting Shayy of Portugal, but counted a few thousand lives for an inexpensive board for possessing an artifact forerunner. We also have a mentor who does not trust his student, and who has reasons for suspicion of the neck in solidarity with the Templars.

Let’s go through the scene of their quarrel:

Shey is breaking into the office and passes to a scream, rushing with accusations towards his mentor. He does not want to go to the dialogue, which is understandable, he considers himself right and, besides, do not forget, he survived the strongest stress and is still in a state of affect. Achilles, seeing that the student was not in himself, considered it right not to make contact with him, because it would not make sense, but decided to wait until he cooled.

Then Shey sits by the fire, thinking about his future betrayal. Why he still didn’t talk to the mentor? Firstly, the state of affect and the shay line act in comb. Secondly, his doubts have been ripe for a long time, and Lisbon only became a catalyst. Thirdly, Achilles did not make contact and did not make convincing arguments to his defense, that is, Shey can assume that he was actually completely right in his judgments.

The feed is broken into the estate and steals a manuscript, for which Achilles finds him. Disappointment and anger take possession of them, he understands that Shey betrayed them, and perhaps he no longer see the meaning in negotiations. He begins to think about whether Shai was a traitor a long time ago? A brawl is tied, as a result of which Shey falls from a cliff. (By the way, how did he survive? He fell from a fairly high height, hit the ground, before that he received a bullet in his back, and then he got into ice water. It seems to me that he was supposed to lean back after a blow to the ground, well, either drown, or freeze in cold water, given that he also lost consciousness. As it would look more believable if he had fallen into the water after the shot, and not ashore. Although, perhaps, I just underestimate the strength of the human body.)

It seems to me that he looks much younger with a mustache, and they go much more to him

Later, Shay meets the Templars, and they turn out to be normal guys. He converges with them and understands that the assassins exaggerated, or even completely lied about the addiction of the order. He understands that Achilles was wrong in almost everything, which means he was wrong and in a dispute with the Kormak himself. Given what Shey saw, how many deaths the shrine brought, he decides that Achilles must be stopped.

It seems to me, if you look at the conflict from this point of view, then everything is not so bad. The problem is how this link was presented. This was partly affected by the character of some characters, for example Achilles, from which it was impossible to sculpt a monster, because otherwise it would contradict the character from the third part.

Otherwise, the plot is quite trivial, and I do not have a desire to scold or praise it especially. Unless the phrase of Shai “Luck is a myth” caused a small feeling of Spanish shame, because it was pronounced too often and sometimes not very to the place. It feels like the scriptwriters in the TK prescribed the number of use of this phrase, and they tried with all their might to stuff it wherever possible.

As a result, the plot of Rogue disappointed me. It is not remembered and definitely does not work with its task. The plot here is so inconspicuous, invaluating to its characters and not the “turns” that I thought that only half of the game had passed, while the final mission had already begun.

The game does not give special emotions and strong moments during its passage. You remember one of the AC 2 scenes, where Ezio and his brother stood on the roof of the tower under the already cult Ezio’s Family? And Christina’s death from Brotherhouse? And the final Black Flag? And the dialogs of Connora and Haytyem and the death of Achilles from the third part? And the meeting of the legendary Ezio with no less legendary, but already dead Altair in the library? You will not see anything like this in Assassin’s Creed Rogue.

History has a potential: it could show us the other side of the fraternity, show us the ancient conflict from the opposite point of view, show us the shortcomings of both side, and, finally, to clearly show the difference in the methods, ideals and paths of assassins and Templars. However, history becomes too personal. Of course, a personal story is not bad if it is correctly told, especially since the previous parts of the franchise coped with this very well.

Yes, we seem to see other Templars, but we recognize them a little and we don’t attach to any of them, even to Monroe, whose death seemed to be a blow to Shey. The plot is as if it is constantly in a hurry somewhere, however, like Shey himself. We seemed to have just begun to get acquainted with the assassins, and now we are already betraying them. In addition, the moment with betrayal and the link of the conflict do not work properly, which I already talked above. And further killings of friends do not work, even the murder of Liam and Hope do not particularly touch.

If the authors wanted to show that Coincasino-pro.co.uk there are no differences between Templars and Assassins as such, then five points, because there are no special differences between the two societies, I will repeat again, in the game of assassins and Templars simply changed places. But it actually should be, organizations have different goals, different methods, different ideas, and replace the Templars with assassins in Rogue, nothing will change much. On the contrary, there will be a little less contradictions, because the assassins will finally cease to violate their own credo.

After passing the plot, you do not experience special emotions, only a slight disappointment. I felt something like this after the end of Assassin’s Creed Origins. And, probably, according to subjective sensations, the plot of Rogue is somewhere at the level of the plot of the origins. Not directly terrible, but definitely not good. In this aspect, perhaps, the game loses to all the main games of the series, with the exception of Odyssey and Syndicate, in which I cannot perceive the plot at all without disgust.

Open World

The open world has not changed much in its structure. All you also have provided a fairly large water space through which numerous islands are scattered available for research. True, the world is now divided into three parts: the Atlantic Ocean, River Valley and New York-which actually brings a fraction of diversity to the visual.

In Black Flag, the world was bright and beautiful, this cannot be taken away, but after twelve hours these monotonous tropics are already annoying in order, and all the islands and cities, like two drops of water, are similar to each other. In Rogue, they solved this problem and, as for me, very good.

The snowy Atlantic is no longer so colorful, but still bewitching, especially in contrast to the tropics, looks very original and fresh. The northern lights, floating icebergs, abandoned ships constrained by ice do not give locations to get bored for quite some time to study the world. In addition, animal behavior, in particular birds, complement the general immersion in the game.

Already tired of snow and ice? Well, go to River Valley. Mixed and deciduous forests, narrow rivers and a more moderate climate diversify your journey.

You do not like nature? Then you can take a walk around New York and look at how the city looked before the great fire of 1776.

In general, from a visual point of view, the open world has been diversified, and it does not get bored for a very long time, on the other hand, and the game itself is not too long. However, I passed it by 96%, and after all, a weighty amount of time is still delivered. But with the filling there are certain problems.

The blizzard looks very cool

Locations from the point of view of gameplay are slightly different from each other. It is clear that New York, unlike the Atlantic and River Valley, the territory is extremely land, but there are other details that make parts of the world more unique, although they still do not change anything dramatically.

As I said, the Atlantic is quite cold and the water is appropriate there. You can’t swim in it for a long time and after a couple of minutes you will die from frostbite, so I do not recommend that you swim far from your ship.

Icebergs carry their gameplay function. When these floating ice floes, rather large waves rise, which cause damage, or even completely destroy small vessels, such as gunners or schooners. But ice walls, usually blocking the passage to some island, can completely sink your own brig, and therefore be more accurate with this.

Swimming in the Atlantic, you can stumble upon an abandoned and practically destroyed ship, on the board of which you can find sunshots with supplies, with a search of which you really have to hurry, because in a couple of minutes the ship will explode and go to the bottom and, if you do not have time to get out of it, he will take you with him with him. You can also find a special ship of the Royal Fleet, which is loaded with a much large number of supplies than other vessels at sea, though I am not sure of the unique feature of the Atlantic, perhaps this can be found in River Valley, but at least I did not come across this valley with this.

Also in the Atlantic you can find the so -called sea battles. These are large clashes between enemies and allies, where you need to help your supporters prevail.

No less in your help are needed by prisoners of war on special ships, which directly migrated to us from Freedom Cry. The task is the same as in the cry of freedom, you need to destroy the convoy and take the ship with captives for boarding, without causing damage.

If, traveling through the Atlantic, you will at least come across the events described above, then River Walley is just a set of locations where you should run from tags to mark, collecting chests. Here and enemy ships are much smaller and you can’t find large-scale battles here because of the narrowness of the rivers along which ships swim.

Yes, on land, as well as in the Atlantic, you can still accidentally meet border skirmishes, where you also need to help your allies, but you are still much more boring to move around the water in the river valley than in the northern location.

Conflict on the border between the French and the British

The overall filling of the game is quite monotonous, mainly a large amount of gathering: fragments of animus, prosperity, treasures themselves, treasures themselves, chests, cloaks of the Templars, part of the Vikings swords, rock painting, totemic pillars, chantsi, letters. Thank you, of course, that we are not forced to collect 400 flags, but this is still quickly bored and such content has to be consumed exclusively in conjunction with another content: some light series, video on YouTube or podcast. But still let’s look at these activities in more detail.

Animus fragments that migrated from the previous part, as they collect access to new notes of voice in the gray, that is, to the prophecy of Juno, which is actually quite interesting to listen.

The collection of prosperity will make it possible to increase the awards received within the game. This is of course useful, but not that very.

With the rest, more and more trivial. For the collection of objects you will be given one or another suit, sword or gun. Search for treasure cards and then the treasures themselves is no different from Black Flag, as a reward you will receive armor of the Templars.

The search for crosses of the Templars is as follows: you find a stone, scan it with your eagle vision and go to the marked place. For their collection, you will get access to Fort de Sable, where you can get James Gann’s costume, as well as several more sets of weapons and clothes.

Getting all the swords of Viking will provide access to the costume and sword of the Viking, and cave paintings will tell the Indian legend about the creation of the world, also quite interesting.

To collect Indian totems, you need to solve simple puzzles, and at the end for your efforts you will receive the armor of the Indians.

Quite a lot of letters around the world are scattered and almost all of them are very curious, because they reveal the ENT, and some of them expand a little and complement the main plot.

There are a lot of gatherings and, perhaps, after it you will spend the most time. The plus is that, as in the previous game, objects and the collection process tried to diversify and dignily reward the player for efforts. Costumes and weapons are of course good, but for me personally in the AC series it was absolutely unimportant, especially with regard to weapons. After all, if there is still some kind of difference between different pistols thanks to such characteristics as range, damage and defeat, then between different types of blades you do not feel any. That standard, that the most expensive sword is destroyed quickly enough (in particular, thanks to the murders chains who are wandering from the game to the game after Brotherhood), which a little devalues ​​the importance of acquiring a new weapon. However, for the sake of the possibility of replenishing your knowledge about the world of Assassin’s Creed, you can sacrifice some time to collect letters.

Of course, collecting is not the only thing you can do in the world of Assassin’s Creed Rogue. As in Assassin’s Creed Black Flag, sea battles are the main decoration of the game. And most of all the emotions of the battles are delivered if the legendary ship comes out against you. But, if in Black Flag, you fought with him one on one (well, or one against two), then here a small detachment of ships enter the battle, both on the one hand and on the other, which adds even greater scale. Battles with legendary ships all challenges you, but not so heavy. It is not so difficult to defeat the legendary ship, especially with a pumped ship, although it requires certain skills. However, the battles did not become less colorful. When you fight with your detachment against the enemy’s detachment in a strong blizzard or thunderstorm and maneuver between deadly tornado, this gives a lot of pleasure.

Forts with warehouses migrated here from the fourth part. The first you have to first destroy with the help of your ship, and then kill the commander and transfer the fort to your allies. And you can from time to time to rob and receive a significant amount of resources from time to time.

Avanposts appeared, or rather a den of the bandits that you need to capture in order to get control of the economic zone. This increases income, and also opens some additional tasks. Not to say that this is directly crazy, especially if you attack them just ahead, but the capture of the bases can give pleasure if you try to spend it on stealth. Although this pleasure is dubious, because Stlas remained as oak as in the previous parts.

Typically, the cleaning process consists of several stages, necessarily including the murder of the leader and cutting the flag. Just the same leader is the main motivation for the passage of the lair along the stealth, because, if he notices you, he will begin to run away, shooting along the way and trying to hide behind the smoke bombs. Also on the map are the settlements of the French, which must be captured by analogy with the den and also transfer them to British soldiers.

In principle, there is nothing wrong with them, but I repeat, the avantists are quite primitive and do not give special emotions from the cleaning. But after the capture of all the logs, settlements and forts will give you Scottish silicon pistols.

Although the game no longer “hunting for the Templars” as in Black Flag, where it was full -fledged, detailed additional tasks (although it was possible, by analogy with this, for example, hunting for the Assassins), but from there the murder contracts were migrated here, only they were slightly modified.

If you remember, you are now not assassin, which means you can’t get their contracts, so you intercept their pigeons with letters, but you do not fulfill the mission that is described there, but on the contrary, you try to prevent its implementation. After receiving the assignment, you first look for the goal of the assassins, and after in the marked areas you try to find the Assassins themselves and save the world from them. For the implementation of all such interceptions, you will receive a suit of the Templair-Guardian.

The game also preserved the fleet from the previous part. Managing them, you will help your allies in the seven -year war. You have your own fleet, which you can replenish with a variety of ships, differing in speed, firepower and capacity, and send them to tasks along certain routes. You can immediately send the ship to fulfill a dangerous mission or first enter the battle with the enemy, thereby protecting the path so that your ship can go without any barriers. For the completion of tasks, you will receive improvements for your ship, collectible objects, etc. D.

Of course, in the game there is still a hunt for both the inhabitants of land and various whales. In the sea, when hunting with a harpoon, you can catch a beluga, a ward, Narval and other representatives of the ocean fauna. In general, the hunt does not bring anything new from the past part, unless now the strength of your boat can threaten not only a shark or a whale, but also the ice floes that come across in the way, and therefore do not forget to bend in time.

Little hunting also did not undergo any changes, only animals have changed, which you have to cut. Instead of monkeys – a scribe, and instead of leopards – a white bear, etc. D. As before, the hunt is still the same primitive and there is no interest in it. The obtained skins and bones go to pump the shai himself: the creation of nasopias, an increase in health, the manufacture of costumes, etc. D. However, now you can not only hunt, but to complete the tasks of hunters. They come down to the murder of certain animals in the allotted time, and in principle these tasks are few and they pass quickly enough, but you will receive a hunting saber for their implementation.

Almost immediately, as you will get into New York in the plot, you will be introduced to the trackers of the Assassins. The task of these people is simple – to kill you. They can hide everywhere: in hay stakes, in bushes, on the roofs of buildings, on benches, etc. D. The approximation and a special indicator indicating the approximate location of the danger indicates the approach of them. It would seem good, now it will not be possible to thoughtlessly run around the city, but you will need to be distracted in search of hiding hunters and be a guard. Something similar was in Revelations, but in Rogue they strongly overdo it.

Rangers can occur almost on every corner, and after half an hour running around the city they will begin to annoy the order. Soon you will simply stop paying attention to them and only occasionally you will lazily press the “e” to repel their attack. Yes, even if you do not reflect, nothing terrible will happen. The trackers do not kill you instantly, but only take away most of the health, which depreciates the whole danger from meeting them, because you do not carry any losses. You do not need to take medicines, because health is restored automatically, but they usually do not try to finish you off, but only quickly take your feet.

There, in New York, after meeting Monroe, you will open the possibility of restoration. Well, that is, as in Assassin’s Creed 2, Brotherhood, Revelations (I don’t remember whether it was in the third assassin, but it seems that not) and in Assassin’s Creed IV, you have to transfer money and materials to restore one or another building that will bring you the income in the future.

By the way, and you remember one of the main dogm of the Credo? Never kill innocent. And of course, at first you can’t kill innocent, the game will traditionally threaten you with desingchronization, but after Shay leaves the brotherhood, he will apparently forget about his beliefs forever. Okay, he was no longer constrained by the credo, but he was always against the murder of the innocent, which is why the conflict of the whole game broke out. Then why now it is possible to calmly kill civilians, without fear of the inscription "This ancestor did not kill civilians or pets" and desinghronization? Yes, if you kill people, then you will be sent for your head hunters who are very difficult to defeat in a fight on swords (though you have a gun, shainbyo or grenades, they will not deliver problems). But my claim is that this contradicts the character of the character. That is, according to the game, immediately after the feeders separated from the brotherhood, he began to kill the townspeople to the left and on the right. So or?

In fact, the content in the open world is not the most outstanding. The lion’s share of all activities is collected by gathering, which it makes sense to deal with the sake of costumes and particles of Laura, but in fact there is no pleasure from running around the islands and the discovery of numerous chests.

Many additional activity, such as immersion under water with a bell, sea contracts and hunting for the Templars, were not added to the game. Much, for example, taverns, warehouses, battles with legendary ships, migrated from past games. Does Rogue offer something new? Yes, but this is new not that very interesting, like hunters’ tasks or outposts, and can hardly outweigh what was in Assassin’s Creed IV, but what is not in Assassin’s Creed Rogue. Yes, the game brought something good, for example, the same locations that have become much more interesting, diverse and, most importantly, more worked out and memorable, but this is somehow not enough.

I do not deny that perhaps for me the content appeared in the worst light due to the features of my passages of games with open worlds. As soon as a mark appears on the map, not related to the main plot, I immediately run to clean it. Therefore, all the additional activity in Rogue, that I had available at that time, I finished immediately how I had the opportunity to take a walk around the open world, and I already closed the rest of the icons as it appeared.

On the other hand, if you, like any normal person, will consume content portions, you simply will not have time to close everything until the end of the game is completed. Because, as I said, the plot is too short and strongly stretch the passage of additional activities will not work.

Gameplay

The gameplay was almost completely borrowed from the black flag, having undergone only minor changes.

I still don’t like parkour, as in the previous part. He stood on the path of simplification back in AC III, but in Black Flag it became more primitive in comparison with the old parts of the series, and most importantly less convenient. One of the main problems is that the character often clings to everything in a row during running. This is due to the fact that we no longer have a separation of running and calging, as in the first assassin and Ezio trilogy, where to climb the wall we had to hold PKM + gap.

Yes, they refused this system in the third assassin, but in Black Flag and Rogue the problem began to feel the most acute. I specifically installed Assassin’s Creed III to make sure that the parkour after the death of Desmond, although it became casual and easier in development, but at the same time he became too uncomfortable from something from something. Although in terms of movement to the outcast there are positive shifts. This shift was New York.

If in Black Flag the parkour ceased to be something obligatory, since the main action took place on the sea and islands, where neither thoughtful cities, nor high buildings, only trees and rocks, which are actually not very interesting to move, then in Rogue, due to the presence of a large city, the parkour began to play a more significant role, although in comparison with the first games of the series, there is a particular meaning in it here No.

Shey uniforms also did not undergo special changes. Instead of paired sabers, Shay wears a sword and a dagger, which of course does not take a special influence on close battles, but at least new animations were brought to the game. Shay still owns the Shainbyao, smoke bombs (from which both the feed and some opponents have learned to defend themselves through special masks) and can use a throwing knife, but there is a new weapon, though only half.

Kormak received at his disposal a silent rifle, which could be struck by darts with sleeping pills for berserk poison, which is just a reincarnation of the oven from a black flag. However, it can also use unique ammunition. These are distracting darts, which after the explosion begin to publish a noise that attracts the attention of the nearest opponents. As well as grenades, both exploding, with the help of which you can kill a group of soldiers, and take some door, or berserker, who have been euthanized or the fury of all people in a certain area.

Morrigan also did not stand aside and got a gun with a gun, which, unlike the Falconets on the Galka, can shoot anywhere, causing damage to enemy courts.

On the sea from the new one there was a chance to fall on the board of enemy NPCs. This is quite rare, but often it finds it by surprise and looks very curious.

By the way about NPC, the intelligence remained dumb. Opponents can either notice you at too much distance, then they may not see you in front of your nose, but they may lose sight of you after you are circling and jumping around them.

In battle, enemies also do not pose a special threat. Yes, the game has become a little more honest and now there is no such godless simplification as in AC III, but still fights still do not cause special problems.

The plot has become much better to be felt from the point of view of the gameplay due to the fact that the developers corrected the main gameplay problem of the missions from Black Flag – tasks of surveillance.

If you remember in the last part, you clearly overdo it with this, and the very dull tasks of the tracking of a particular character occupied almost a third of the entire plot campaign. But, of course, Assassin’s Creed could not completely abandon such missions, and therefore, apparently to sleep more calmly, the developers added one such task.

Animations, music, bug optimization and other roughnesses

I have nothing to say about the technical performance of the game, music and animations, and therefore I will unite all this into one section.

Animations as a whole remained the same worked out and quite bewitching, but even with Black Flag they seem to me some torn. In the same AC III, as for me, there were simply chic animations of the battle because of which I wanted to spend as much time as possible in battles, so that I gracefully kills Hayem, or as with animal cruelty, Connor sends its enemies to the next world. In this regard, both due to limited selection of weapons, and, in principle, due to the smaller number of animations AC Rogue and AC Black Flag are inferior to their colleague in American saga. In addition, AC Rogue sins some shortcomings in this regard.

Take a look at how the sword turns after getting into the scabbard

Here the branch was removed, and change the animation so that Shai does not continue to hold on and push off from an invisible support, forgotten

There are no revelations in terms of music. The title theme of the game is again modified and familiar to everyone Ezio’s Family. She was not badly processed and she is not ashamed to add to her playlist (Ezio’s Family I just adore). Otherwise, there are no straightforward tracks in the game.

In the game there are bugs with water

And a little more about the shortcomings. According to the plot, we did not lose Morrigan for a long time when we got into New York, but after a few memories we returned the ship again. However, if we, using rapid movement, will fall into the Atlantic before the mission with the return of the ship, we will be able to swim in Morrigan without any problems. It is strange that the developers did not bother to block a similar opportunity.

By the way, for some reason, if you use this loophole, the old Model Kormak will be used, which was before leaving the fraternity, perhaps this is done intentionally, though it is not clear why. The player will receive the ship literally after a couple of missions, and the possibility of quick movement for this time could be blocked.

And here they forgot to arrange obstacles

The invisibility of opponents in the game is far from uncommon

There are quite a lot of such shortcomings and small bugs that spoil the overall impression (for example, the dialogs occurring on the ship, which will be repeated every time you get up at the helm after going to the shore, which is a little annoying), but in the principle of critical roughness in this regard in the game was not found.

For four passages, the game has never flew out, but it is just excellent optimized. Apparently the developers completely figured out the engine, and therefore, by the frequency of frames, Rogue can give a head start not only Black Flag, but even AC III.

This guy definitely did not understand that he died

You know what could be done instead of Assassin’s Creed Rogue?

Tell the story of Haytem. This falls under the idea that the Templars are not so villains, and many liked the character himself, and besides, she could finally complete the story of Edward.

We could show us the formation of Kenoay as Templar, show the death of his father, let us give a revenge on him, reveal the events of AC III on another prospect and tell more about Haytem’s inner world. Moreover, it would be very symbolic that the whole American saga is dedicated to one unusual family.

Another question is whether Ubisoft Sofia would really have something high-quality, given what we received at the output in the form of AC Rogue.

Rogue is a filler who not only does not bring something radically new, but also does not cope with the role of a sort of work on errors. However, he has his advantages. The idea to show us the other side of the conflict of secret organizations is not just from the Templar, but from the side of the defector, which is familiar with both the order and with the brotherhood, really good, which Ubisoft began to grope in the third part.

Yes, you can’t call Rogue the best game of the series. It is largely secondary and inferior to most of the main parts of the franchise, but still this is at least Assassin’s Creed. There are no fantasy creatures, aggressive microtransactions and a prolonged gameplay for a hundred hours. But in Assassin’s Creed Rogue the ENT series expands, the background and the further fate of some of the characters already familiar to us are told, and I do not regret the time that I spent on it.

After Rogue, a good Unity came out, and then Syndicate, which became a harbinger of Assassin’s Creed death, if not in financial, then it is certainly certain. The latest parts take the series completely in the wrong direction, and, in my opinion, it is better to spend 20 hours on Assassin’s Creed Rogue than 150 for some Assassin’s Creed Odyssey.

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So in the first the same thing, just there, they haven’t invented a series of murders. So the scheme was not “retorted to the first, jammed the rest” but “rattled the first, rated the second, rated the third, the Crane of the N-th, until the enemy ends”. Very interesting, of course, dynamic and fun (no).

I am tempting me to answer the question asked in the heading, so I will say something average.
And the best part I still think the second (although, frankly, I, after 4, Rogue and Liberation, did not play anymore, my love for the series somehow faded away, so I can’t be objective).

I remember, because I decided to go through it this year) and the parallel, by the way, is very good. I really had similar thoughts, but not interconnected, just about each of the games at one time there was a similar thought)

Well, yes, I didn’t read the whole review, only the entry, a little further, and the conclusions, but everything is written very competently, and it is well decorated, from me plus, the author is more suitable blogs)

The only thing I really liked in terms of the plot in Rogue is a smooth transition from its ending to Unity’s entry.

Oh, this rutet with its masterpiece or failure. And so good.

The syndicate was the worst game of the series until the Odyssey was released (by the way from the same authors, they hold Mark). The fighting was completely killed there. There was an amazing game design in the spirit of the mafia 3 – capture the whole of London, performing the same routine tasks. There were heroes – degenerates. There was a complete absence of music (an embosses from a squeak of violin – this is not music). There were in no way connected with each other, as if the game had noted a little. There was absolutely useless pumping. There were exactly three types of weapons (brass knuckles, kukri, clinning cane). And there were more bugs than in the final version of Unity.

In principle, I don’t understand why you can love the syndicate

One of the best reviews that I read. Competently, in the case, deployed

Excellent review, did not notice how I read it entirely with pleasure. It was very cool to recall this part, albeit controversial, but delivered a lot of pleasant impressions at one time.

I agree that there is no plot and that the game turned out to be Black Flag, which was rather sad, since the potential of the idea was of course incomparably greater. But the setting came to me very much, and for this I am ready to forgive a lot – for landscapes, snowstorms, the crack of ice under the casing, icebergs, radiance and the remains of ships, which are wandered through which white bears roamed in the ice. The setting is cool and is really unusual for the games, and for me personally, it personally wins against the background of the ACIV tropics, so in this regard, if you do not take the plot, Rogue has become “Black flag, only better”. So at least the rest of the game does not stand up to criticism, she still took her place in the corridors of memory

Thanks for the excellent analysis, and a big plus – from the fan of the series fan of the series)

Rogue remembered as the last real assassin, an ordinary strong middle peasant (naturally only the main campaign passed, no collection of useless objects). After it, a controversial SYNDICATE came out, and then the developers were carried out somewhere in the wrong place, and Origins-Odyssey-Valhalla (do not understand the wrong thing, the games are good, but this is not an “Assassin’s credo”). By the way, Rogue, unlike Unity, was optimized immediately on the release, and did not have critical bugs (Unity was able to take place only on version 1.5, before that the game slowed down and painted).

Naturally, the most beloved still remains Assassin’s Creed II. Origins was at a loss, Odyssey with boredom, I won’t even take valhalla. The series went after the prince of Persia, sorry.

It would be the best scenario in the series if it were not for the speedy start too.There was not enough interaction with other Assassins, so killing them, you do not feel exactly Nifig.It was necessary to do at least 2-3 tasks together, and more dialogs.

And the syndicate and Odyssey are so bad that the author decided not to put them in a voting? I approve)

Walgalla was unexpectedly good at the main plot-in fact, the direct continuation of the ending of the AC3, plus tried to somehow resolve the nonsense that the VTERA in Odyssey. Large cities are well worked out, and the main objectives for murder in these cities are very reminiscent of the goals from the first assassin, about the same ways to get to the enemy and kill him. But the game really sins by the fact that it remained as jerking away as the previous 2 parts. If the series of the series is interested in, then I recommend that you look at the compilation of the plot on YouTube, this is the first time with the AC3 kaifanil from it.

For me personally, an outcast is a game of missed hopes that could perfectly complete the trilogy of gray morality, which was started in the three and completed on this part. In the top three, we saw strong personalities of the Templars and holes in the system of assassins, like ordinary anarchists, from which there are more problems than benefits. But in the end, we saw a very weak plot, which in terms of duration is less than any part of the series and mountain of missed capabilities.

But at the same time, I recall with greater warmth in my heart than the same Black flag. From the first minutes of the game, I did not leave that it was developed by fans of the assassins who were given the engine, but did not give the budget. The gameplay of the three-four for me reached the ideal in the outcast and was the best in that generation.

This was especially very felt against the backdrop of the game in Unity, where the breasts showed in almost all aspects of the game, how sincerely and strongly hate players. Which, by the way, could also be gorgeous, but now almost everything that spoils the game, it was done specifically with some kind of sadistic gear.

But to be honest, neither Rog nor Black Flag will turn to call an assassin. Pirate rolls in the form of a separate game – yes, pretty good, but this is far from assassin. Unity in this regard was a sip of fresh air, it is a pity that the syndicate with his hook with a cat and lvl design ruined the whole parkour again.

Former Ubisoft employee once said that he considers the first part of the first. And I agree with him. There was planning murders. Finding out the ways of murders. There was no super simplifications of the fighting. In parts after the first, all these pistols, bows, smokers are not particularly needed. Particularly noticeable after Revelations. You can just counterattack and run a series of murders. In the first part, everything was more difficult or something. And the extra charge of knives could really be useful.

I remember at the exit of the game I inserted the disk into his Xbox360, with the initial Katsen with the flight of the eagle, the game Zvil, and could not pass.
Excellent and extremely pleasant to read review.

I talked about the line in Rogue, comparing mainly with the modern Black Flag.

You are strange) get tired of Orijing, but not get tired of the Odyssey, which is three times more. And where you are forced to make activity that you do not want to do, because the Grindwall separates you from the Great Chinese Wall from the plot.

Assassin’s Creed Rogue was deprived of attention from the release. The game came out at once on the seventh and on the then -relevant eighth generation of consoles at the same time from Unity, which pulled all the attention to herself.

Assassin’s Creed Rogue came out on the eighth generation four years after the release at the seventh

Yes, too many elements were shocked up the elements. Including many side, additional “main” quests that have been added to stretch the time. If all the garbage from the game was removed, it would be topovo

I want to check for the first assassin. Recently played and through time this part went even more to me. I don’t know how it turned out that Miskkuted on Brotherhouse))