While Shay’s adventure marks a slightly more villainous turn than in Assassins of the past, the game admirably succeeds in never turning him a full blown villain. Over the course of Rogue‘s 15-20 hours, Shay starts a vengeful journey from starting as an Assassin and gradually turning things toward the Templar way, leading to one of the most engaging stories to come out of the series since the start of Ezio’s journey in Assassin’s Creed II. Templar conflict by spinning things around to the Templars. However, Rogue‘s biggest departure flips things around, pitting players as the arguable antagonist in the long-running Assassin vs. Taking players back into the sea-faring realms of Black Flag, Assassin’s Creed Rogue puts players into the hooded coat and concealed blade of Shay Patrick Cormac, another in the long line of assassin’s that have killed, sacrificed, and sworn to the Assassin Order. But, in the same sense it also represents how little the series has changed, with gameplay that retains much of the fun, and the frustration, that the series hasn’t been able to shake in its much-maligned annual installments. Rogue is very much the Assassin’s Creed we have come to know and love, however, it also represents one of the most introspective entries of the series that, much like Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag before it, takes time in focusing on how the series has progressed since its debut.

While history has been the narrative backdrop and scene-establishment for every entry in the series so far, Assassin’s Creed Rogue presents a diversion from previous Assassin’s Creed games of old - instead, its focus shifts from history of the world as we know it, to the history of Assassin’s Creed itself. In the course of the last five years, the Ubisoft series has taken players from Renaissance Era Italy, to Colonial America, out into the Pirate Seas, and most recently into the throws of the French Revolution in Assassin’s Creed Unity. Aside from providing the backdrop of each installment, history has played in importance in Assassin’s Creed.

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