Review: Assassins Creed: Rogue

Hey there Ale-Gators!

 So I've been in talks with some people over at Ubisoft about My blog and what They think of it and I was then told that I was being sent a special package from the team, now They didn't tell me what it was and I've been waiting with bated breath for a week now and Yesterday it turned up, And let me tell you! I am one happy man!

So the Lovely People at Ubisoft sent Me a copy of Rogue and told Me they look forward to seeing a review! so here it is!!

The main character of the game is Shay Patrick Cormac, a twenty-one year-old recruit to the Assassins who grows disillusioned with their methods and their cause just as his career as an Assassin begins. He eventually betrays and abandons the Assassins after an assignment ends in disaster, and is later accepted into the Templar Order, offering his services as an Assassin Hunter after seeing some of the Assassins groups used as allies have taken to terrorizing New York. Given access to near-limitless resources, Cormac sets out against his former companions, with his actions having dire consequences for the future of the Brotherhood. Cormac has ties to the events that occur in Assassin's Creed Unity. Appearances from previous Assassin's Creed characters include: Haytham Kenway, Achilles Davenport (Conner Kenways mentor), and Adewale, (Edward Kenway's quartermaster in Black Flag).

So I've been playing the game for about ten hours now and I've finally completed the story, some of you may say that "it's too short and easy" I will point out now that i just did the story, nothing else outside of that, looking at the percentage chart for the game I am about %30 done..... yeah... %30... Hopefully I'll have it %100 by the time I post this Review!

Now this game plays alot like AC3 and Black Flag,but instead of feeling samey it feels pretty good! they've finally gotten rid of a lot of the bugs that have plagued the game since they introduced the sea fairing part of the game, it's now rather smooth and after a while you'll want to be a captain forever, I've been searching for all the unlockable armors and such... my hint to you is to play the campaign till the end and then do the unlockables as it's a lot more time consuming and actually gives you a reason to play after the credits have rolled!!

Right then, there are ofcourse some drawbacks to the game... namely Shay's voice actor, he's fantastic during the cutscenes and such... when you are collecting stuff? not so much, he has a tendency to sound like a stereotypical leprechaun. otherwise I love all of the voice acting in this! it feels real and lively, not scripted, it sounds like a game should! 

The graphics have been overhauled from Black flag, I'm still trying to work out why as it's the same anvilnext engine from AC3 (which only came out in 2012...) but they've done a good job with it, the sea feels like it could rip your ship apart in storms and the jungles feel alive, teeming with creatures (and Assassins), who really want to kill you!

The naval battles have been completely overhauled with the Morrigan, she's faster, sleeker and deadlier then either the Aquila or the Jackdaw, and carries enough fire power to destroy them both easily, so much so that half way through the game I was taking on Man O' Wars and just about defeating them, once I'd unlocked more upgrades I was unstoppable, a pure Assassin killing machine, I'd happily spend hours sailing the seas taking on French ships!

The only real niggles i have with this game are small ones, like the inclusion of an Native American Assassins called Kesegowaase, which is all well and good but Conner Kenway was the first Native American to join the Assassins order according to Achilles and yet rogue (which is set before AC3) has a Native American Assassin, that's the only real oversight I have spotted in the game so far which can be forgiven seeing as they have got everything else just right!

I'm just going to leave the Trailer here for you all to watch!

Why was i ever an Assassin? being a Templar is the most Bad-Ass thing ever!

Now you can argue that this is a rehash of the last few Assassins Creed games and a lot of people would agree with you, I on the other hand don't, I feel that it's the pinnacle of the Games on the last generation of consoles (xbox360/ps3) and I think that this is the last hurrah of the Assassins creed games on these consoles, the culmination of all those years of planning, from the release of the first to now, these games are a defining series for these consoles, lets hope that the series continues to grow now that the new Gen of consoles are here, if Rogue is the best of this Gen, then Unity will be the tester for the future, a future of Assassins and Templar's, a world of hidden items and journeys to far off lands...  A war and a revolution have ended, and another is about to begin. May the Father of Understanding guide us all, And remember, Nothing is True, Everything is Permitted...

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