I remember I was walking past a civilian who was sitting down and I pressed square to see if Shay hits his fists together like Connor did in ac3 cause I used to love walking around doing that and feelings like a tough guy so when I did it in this game. Shay kicked the civilian in the face instantly and I died laughing because it was so unnecessarily brutal and I didn't even get a warning about shay not killing civilians

I kinda felt like you talked circles around the game and never actually talked about the game in any detail beyond the back cover. Most of it was just making comparisons.

Honestly Rogue was one of my favorite AC games to date, up there with Brotherhood. I thought Shay was a good anti-hero and it was cool to go through his journey as an Assassin-turned-Templar.

Dude, you talked about Rogue for like 20% of this video.

If Rogue is a "cash grab". Then i guess so is Brotherhood and Revelations. Rogue was not perfect. But you missed the whole point of its story. It wasn't supposed to give you a perspective of the Templars and how their ways of going about things are wrong but understandable. It was about showing how different eras, different times, are what shapes people. In this time the Assassin's are arrogant idiots, and many of them no different than thugs as they make life difficult for people in New York. And meanwhile the Templars were the heroes. Because the times demanded this of them. They still wanted power underneath it all. As shown in the ending how Haytham commands Shay to recover the box. This basically shows us that it is the individual that defines the Templar Order, or the Assassin's Creed. They represent an equilibrium: Peace comes at a cost, and too much peace can bring chaos because people demand freedom. And too much freedom destroys peace.

If the Templar’s and Assassins are basically swapped out in Rogue’s conversational cutscenes, might that imply that the two organizations are themselves basically the same

AC: Rogue is still the only AC game I have 100% sync on, I fckn love this game

This review is the embodiment of the phrase “talking loudly, but saying nothing”

You talk way too much about the same things. Instead of getting to the point you went on 5 to 6 minute tangent on simply this, "Ubisoft made too many games and didn't take enough time to polish the games. Players became burned out for several reasons, glitches being one."

You forgot to mention it doesn't have tailing missions or forced stealth sections unlike Black Flag which makes it automatically the better game.

I wish when they redid rogue, they added more sequences. It's so awesome but also too short. Shay Kormac is the best assassin ever. His heightened senses are better than most, too

10 minutes in and i realized you had barely talked about the game. Dont be so long winded.

I mean the setting itself is worth a play, I love the North Atlantic area with new animals to hunt and new areas to uncover. That alone makes it one of my favourite ac games and has sooo much replay value for me

I wish you had comment something about the settings (the North Atlantic, the Arctic, River Valley...) and how it makes the player to feel the atmosphere. For me that was the best part of the game.

I think playing Rogue before Black Flag really changed my perspective of this game. Rogue was and still is a personal favorite of mine. Shay's experience of switching sides seemed so intense that I was engrossed in the storyline and loved it past the very end. I understand that it's kind of a cookie cutter mold for an Assassin's Creed title within the dialogue switched around, but that wasn't enough to turn me away from the game overall. I also thought that Rogue took full advantage of the last gen consoles' abilities. In the end, what was your overall opinion of Shay's character? He was a major contributor to my personal love for the game. Great critique!

AC3 has my favorite setting, and black flag my favorite gameplay. Rogue combines the two. That’s why it’s my favorite game in the series.

I liked it much better than Black Flag actually. If only for the absence of the craps mission of ear dropping so omnipresent in Black Flag

Rouge is well worth your time. Most polished AC on last gen period. Game plays great, story is basic but intriguing.If you still have your trusty ps3 or 360, pick it up. You'll thank yourself.

Over the last year or so I’ve been playing every main assassin’s creed game in order. To this point in the series the gameplay in Rogue is really the best! In fact I think the only lackluster thing about this game is the main story was so short. But i think it took everything from black flag and improved on it. The graphic improvement is really good. The environments are fantastically done! I still do like black flag a bit better just cause I found the story a bit better but I would still put this one number 3 behind Black flag and brotherhood. Gameplay wise number 1 though. Very entertaining and plenty to do. 9.5/10

I don't agree with this critique to be honest. I love Rogue because for me, it fixes everything that made me hate Black Flag. It's more in line, feeling and gameplay wise, with AC3 than Black Flag, even though it's basically all the systems from Black Flag upgraded in one way of another (minus the diving bell sections) And it's really possible to really like Black Flag and to hate Rogue. There is no correlation between the two to be honest when it comes to showing "mathematically" if a person likes "a, they will also like b", because Black Flag and Rogue are vastly different in quite a lot of aspects

This game even tho short was awesome. Rogue was a fresh take and playing as a Templar was awesome.

I'm playing Rogue now, for the first time, after playing Black Flag. I liked BF (except for the main quest missions), but I think I like Rogue more. It's like someone took all my favorite parts from the previous games and put them into one game. It had a good naval combat, but also settlement development, base capturing and so on. The exploration is cool too.

What I liked about Rogue is the way they approached islands, in BF they boasted about having the largest map yet, but every island location is just a small zone, yes you have all of Cuba, but you can actually go to like 3 spots in there, while in Rogue (Mostly in the River Valley) you get to a town and you can cross to the other side of the island, or even explore the whole island, you get a full frontier with many locations

When he keeps aiming for the sails in Black flag instead of the actual boat

I think Rogue is a fantastic game. You say that this game missed the opportunity to flesh out the templars and that you could just change the title "templar" for "assassin", and/or vice versa, and still have the same result; you criticize that there are no major differences in the way assassins and templars operate. I believe that that right there is actually the point of the game. To explicitly show that the difference between both organizations is, in essence, only ideological rather than operational. Who knows, maybe I'm giving the writers too much credit for their laziness, but I am convinced that is what they were trying to show us. That in the end, the rivalry between Assassins and Templars boils down to a difference in opinion, and that the way both organizations work is the same; there is no right or wrong side here. Both organizations are working for the good on mankind and societies, as inspired by their beliefs. And both organizations have been full of both good and bad people throughout history. It makes so much sense to me.

Honestly after origins rogue is my secone favourite in the series , third being black flag.

I really liked playing as a templar for the first time

I don't remember much regarding this game other than how emotional it was, and how empathetic I felt towards Shay.

Hey Luke, I personally, contradictory to your verdict, thought that the narrative was the least of Rogue's accomplishments. In my honest opinion Rogue's true value comes from its improvement of Black flag's more lackluster elements such as truly appreciable visual variety between environments, enjoyable "stalking" missions, a mood setting background score, bespoke fortresses and finely tuned naval combat. Rogue was more "fun" (as hard as that term is to objectively define) than Black Flag as I experienced it and I often recommend it to friends as the Black Flag experience they don't know they need. If anything, it was the unconvincing screenplay and abruptly shifting character motivations in Rogue that held it back imo. Anyway, great review as always, keep up the good work!

I love this game but I do find it bizarrely strange that they don't utilize Charles Lee outside of the cutscene where Shay becomes a Templar

I know the ship gameplay is mostly the same, but for what it's worth, Storm Fortress is easily one of the most intense and great ship battles in either game.

I played AC4 for around 300 hours. So I liked it a wee bit! However I played rogue for over 450 hours. It is superior in one way only...they don't keep shoving those damn ease dropping missions through a heavily populated fort down your throat. AC4 was better graphically as well as mechanically, BUT Rogue has better game-play. I didn't like the Ass Creed part of Black flag, so this was a welcome change. On a side note- Because of AC4 I went back and played, 3, Syndicate as well as revelations. These games brought me into the series. I am thankful for that.

This game was pretty good. Yeah you are right it is more for the fans. The setting though is one of the best. Gazing at the Northern Lights on an iceberg is a sight to behold.

Okay but when has anyone in the franchise called the Assassin Brotherhood the "Assassin;s Creed"?

Genuinely the best part of my week when there's a new critique out

I'll be honest here. Of all the narratives each Assassin's Creed game had, Black Flag's was the one that stood out the most, at least to me. Whereas most of the other games revolved around the main character being an Assassin motivated by justice or revenge against the Templars (Altair, Ezio, Connor, Arno, etc.), Black Flag revolved around the main character being a privateer motivated by money, wealth, and easy-living, and he didn't consider joining the Assassins until the very climax of the game. To me, this is actually an interesting change of narrative pace, and as a result, it makes Edward Kenway stand out as a unique protagonist of the franchise. Compared to Altair, Ezio, Connor, and Arno, who felt like characters whose characterizations served the story, Edward felt like a character who made the story serve him. The other protagonists were written to be brave and noble, whereas Edward was written to be human. Make no mistake, though. This isn't to take away from how the other protagonists were portrayed in their respective games. I'll always have a special place for Ezio in my heart, and I did enjoy Connor's arc throughout AC3. However, when you look at their stories from a bare-bones lens, you have to admit that they do rely on some narrative tropes that are common in most media. Edward, by comparison, doesn't seem to fit that mold, and that's a good thing.

You forgot that they released Syndicate before they took a break and worked on Origins xD

One detail I love about Rogue is when entering a restricted area when Assassin's normally pull up their Hoods, Shay pulls up the Collar of his Trench Coat (I don't know if his Templar Outfit is actually a Trench Coat but I call it that simple because it's so damn cool) also I love the Outfits in the game, best in the series in my opinion, personal favs are Assassin Killer, Templar Outfit, Templar Master, and Sir James Gunn armor.

Rogue and Unity are both criminally underrated. What a rough year for the AC franchise.

I always considered shay as more of an assassin even when he was in the templar order. He held the assassins values way better than the assassins because they became corrupt like the very thing they were initially fighting.

I liked gameplay of Black Flag, but I didn't like the story accompanying it, nor the characters. At least Rogue has interesting angle in that reguard.

Where the hell did that 5min god of war comparison come from?

This game has the most badass outfit out of any AC game, the Assassin Killer outfit.

I’ve always felt that if Ubisoft would have made Rogue for XboxOne instead of 360 and released it in 2014 instead of Unity then both Rogue and Unity would have been better. I’d love to see a critique for Bioshock:Infinite and the Dishonored series. Thanks for the awesome vids!

Assassin's Creed Rogue Remastered is a good game.

Love your analysis on this series! Rogue has always been a favorite of mine. Glad to see it being talked about. Just one random question though, by "Need for Speed film" did you mean "Fast and Furious film?" NFS just had one movie I think lol.

The older I get the more I sympathise with the Templars

In terms of gameplay, rogue improves on black flag significantly in all areas

Him: Lets's talk about Assassin's creed Rogue And how was the game. Also Him: See guys, I don't care about the game or it's feel, So let's just compare it.

Rogue and Black Flag are my favourite AC games... And I played both Unity and Rogue.. Unity wasn't as buggy as everyone says.. But Rogue.. Ahh, that WAS an awesome game!

Im gonna be honest; I never played black flag. That said rogue may be one of my favorite AC games, I personally just enjoyed the story and game overall compared to most of the other games in the series.

The biggest gripe I had with Rogue was the false advertisement that Shay wears a hood in this game. (He doesn't, at all, despite Black Flag having a hood on/off mechanics)

By far my favorite AC, especially in contrast with Black Flag

I saw this game on the back of the shelves at datablitz, its cheap so i bought it, and i never regret getting it

Now that brings us to assassins creed Rogue... *Starts playing Black Flag*

The Assassin’s aren’t terrorists, and the AC game’s give a reason to side with them over the Templar’s. The game’s show corruption in some of the Templar’s. There is some nuance, but generally AC is more pro assassin. I think it’s an interesting idea to see things from the Templar’s perspective, though Rogue doesn’t always do the best jobs and given how they are shown in other games there’s only so much they can do.

may the father of understanding guide us ))

Okay, so if I'm a gaming publisher and I want to make a "cash grab", I don't go out and waste the resources making an out of date game for out of date hardware. In no feasible sense can Rogue be considered a pre meditated cash grab because there were absolutely no indications that this game would be successful in the time and state of its release.

To me this was the best ac game in the past gen, not story wise obviously but this game had things from the ezio trilogy and the kenway trilogy. It had the best of both worlds

After Origins, Assassin's Creed Rogue is my favorite Assassin's Creed game, and I have over 100 hours on it for some reason and I still don't get bored.

That AC soundtrack though. Shit is fire.

Rogue is one of the best AC games, given how strong the story is and how it's from a different point of view from all the other games. Shay is also a very compelling character to play as. Unity was lackluster and glitchy, only good for parkour.

I haven't finished the series, but I will go ahead and say that the Americas Saga (including Liberation) is my favorite era in the series. Yes, they expanded the god-awful optional objectives bullshit that irks my 100% playthrough obsession, but these games have one thing that make them superior to me over the others: all of that nature! I'm more of a loner nature person than I am a bustling city guy, so I prefer to dick around in forests, swamps, and caverns than twisting city streets. I often come to Assassin's Creed to blow off steam and muck around the world rather than stress myself out in main story mission. These four games delivered lots of wilderness exploration for me, so I'm super happy with them. You might not be surprised that Revelations is my least favorite. Constantinople is basically all city from one end of the map to the other with barely any break. It's too claustrophobic. I frequently played the Desmond and Clay journeys, not just because I liked them, but because I NEEDED a break in scenery that Constantinople couldn't provide. (Rome made MUCH better use of the singular overworld map; it's probably my favorite Ezio game, too, because of it.)

Rogue story is one of my favorite's in the AC universe... Too bad not many people knew about it... Great review👍😉 the end of Rogue was the prequel to Unity...

2:58 my boy forgot about Syndicate

I strongly disagree. I think in some ways Rogue is better than AC4 Not in any grand ways but in the subtle ones. Because the factions are interchangeable and the assassins are willing to kill innocent to further their cause it adds to the moral grayness. The Templar role change adds meaning to feature bloat. AC games are stuffed with features. As a lone wolf assassin they made no sense, but as a templar working to gentrify a nation and build an empire. The money gathering, base libration, property renovation stuff works in that narative. It humonized the templars a bit, they often felt like endless leagues of menichal bad guys, but in rouge there is subtle stuff about how the templars want to build a prosperous colony with laws and rules and safety.

I actually did not like Black Flag, but I really enjoyed Rogue.

I don't think we played the same game. I feel that AC as a series can have bland adversaries. It's like you said, with Rouge it feels like we swapped bad guys in red with bad guys in blue and it was more of the same. Im sure the budget for this game was a lot smaller than a main line title and for that reason they could have taken some risks. It's dissapointing that they took so few.

One critique I have is that the distance between Albany and Mount Vernon, Albany is in New York and Mount Vernon is in Northern Virginia.

I will say this completely knowing that people will hate me for it. AC Unity was meant to be the new AC2. If you compare the two gameplay loops, you'll see AC2 is the closest AC game to Unity. The biggest difference is that Unity tried to take everything from 2 to the next level. Make the parkour deeper, make the combat more involved, make the city more detailed ( granted unity only has 1 main location instead 3 but it also has two smaller areas once the free dlc is taken into account). They purposefully tried to make an Ezio like character with Arno, only to make him bland as soon as he gets his hood.

I wouldn't be that harsh and say that Rogue is just an expansion to BF. I see it the same way as what Brotherhood and Revelations were to AC2, effectively a continuation of a miniseries.

I fell in love with Assassins creed games because of this game. I hated AC black flag. but this game was epic. Amazing level design unusual storyline. i love this game

I recently started replaying rogue and I found out that the game gets an amazing layer of challenge by removing the minimap, instead having to rely almost entirely on the in-game graphics. The eagle vision became a useful tool on keeping tabs on enemies and targets, that wasn't overpowered since it would un-tag enemies who strayed too far. With Black Flag I tried to up the challenge by playing without the SSI (Screen Space Indicator), thinking that it was what made the game too easy. But it broke the game in some ways (ship weakspots for example). But back then I naively didn't consider that the mini-map was showing me too much information. A prime example being that it would show me whichever way enemies were facing, essentially working like a superior soliton radar, but without a lore reason being there. Or when sailing in storms I would rather look at my minimap to spot water devils or rogue waves. Disregarding the artistry of hundreds of artists working on the game. Mini-maps are a disgrace to gaming. They make players look away from amazing artistry, worsen the modern population's navigational retardation, make players dumber and make game designers lazy.

I dislike Black Flag and love Rogue. I dislike the pirate theme, I dislike the overabundance on ship missions and ship combat and I hate that all the assassin missions are "follow guy, don't be detected" and Rogue combines what worked in 3 with what worked in 4 and I don't even mind the ship stuff in that one as it wasn't so much ship stuff^^

Rogue was my one of my favorites but assassins creed 2 was also really good too. The first one and the black flag were also my favorites.

I really wish instead of going straight to the Templars and sticking there Shay would have realized both sides don’t seem fit for him and he was truly Rogue, not fighting for particularly anyone and was a man on his own. I get why they made it so he went with the templars because it’d be easy to give him the “cool buddies” almost every game has done so far, but I feel they could still pull off supporting roles that were on neither side also.

The main critique of rogue is that it didnt focus on being a templar enough. Thats its biggest set back, it had a great opportunity to explore thinking on the otherside of thr coin. I was expecting cool templar bases and inductions, more questionable actions, a bittersweet ending. What we got was essentially the creed and the templars swapped, if we werent told we were a templar we mever would have known. Imagine the new templar game mechanics it could have explored as well.

Honestly wouldnt mind an assassins creed ultimate critique were you do the rest of the games, seems like you're passionate about them and would like to hear you opinions on the others

One of my favorites, but I really like them all so... still, yeah.

this game was connected to 3 different games AC4,AC3 and AC Unity

AC Tier list: 1. Brotherhood 2. Black Flag 3. Rogue

Personal favorite game in the series. Favorite character I can sympathize with, a different story, one that's about revenge, yet not on the level of Watch Dogs. One thing I disagree with is the story: you said it's the same as other games, and sure, it's similar, but not the same. Much as I like the Templars, overall, meaning every Templar group from the series, I don't sympathize with them. Shay really only joined the Templars because the Assassins decided that hundreds of lives, knowing they'd die, was better than letting the enemy get the artifact, and Shay disagreed with that

Rogue was my first Assassin's Creed game and I really enjoyed it, it just made me a fan of the franchise

This guy will critique every game in the world besides fallout 3 lmao.

The biggest issue with this game is so baffling. It's a game where you play as the faction that was always the bad guy. I wanted to play as an evil Templar. I wanted it to be like playing as an evil force user in Star Wars the Old Republic. I wanted to bad things for the "greater good". I wanted to play as a character like Charles Lee. I can't believe they decided to give us something so watered down.

Rogue had the best naval i think. Rogue had really good upgraded legendary fights and so on

the most underrated AC ever. I haven't plated AC for ages and few week ago I download both, Unity and Rouge. I was able to play Unity for few days, then I deleted it. Compare to Rouge, which I'm playing 2 weeks already and it's still interesting to play

My love for this series died with Desmond.

This review is SO LONG. I wish you would've talked about the game straight up...

their "cash grab" was way better than unity. shrug

Off topic, but uh, I love how in syndicate when you run your horse and carriage into a tree, not only is the horse completely unaffected, but how flares comes out as if metal was grinding. Thanks Ubisoft.

Yes, I agree that with more time, Rogue might have been better. After all, the concept was a great one

Damn, I need to reinstall Rogue and start up another new game again man, I remember that I loved this version just because it had this darker Free Masonry/Illuminati/Templar feel to it, and you were basically an assassin who hunted other assassins which is the dopest sh*t I ever heard of lol as far as making a gamer feel like an elite badass. Then most of the map felt like Alaska or something with its cold harsh Skyrim like setting, and I was fully sold on this game after I played that first artifact retrieval mission that had you entering a small city to grab some underground secret artifact or something, which ends up triggering the world's craziest booby trap as the entire damn city starts collapsing in on itself. You end up sprinting and jumping from crumbling building to building trying to outrun all the collapsing mayhem, and eventually the street below you heaves upwards, cracks apart, and reveals a hidden hallway/space below ground level with black and white tiled floors all the way down the hallway that you then need to sprint all the way down etc. etc. (black and white tiling is a nod to Free Masonry in the game). I love conspiracy theory type documentaries online about Free Masons, Illuminati, and all that jazz so once the game started including those vibes I was like yuuuuuup this is my jam fo sho. Never beat this game though, so I def. need to revisit this bad boy.

Felt like a reskinned black flag but with a better story. Still worth a try

I find myself playing Rogue the most

One of the most annoying consequences of rushing this game out is that it reuses the colonial New York map from AC3. As a result, not only does Rogue feel like an extension of Black Flag (not a huge problem for me), it also often feels like a retread of AC3. There are many points in this video where if you told me "that's actually footage from AC3", I would believe you. In a franchise where exploring different cities is a big part of the fun, and in a "trilogy" (AC3-BF-R) where cities were puny and boring enough as it is, REUSING a city is hugely disappointing. Even more so because it's so rare to see any fictional media take place during the Seven Years' War (aka French and Indian War). I would have loved to check out more of New France than the tiny, forgettable settlements in this game (Anticosti and what have you); a bigger location like Quebec City or Montreal would have been really cool. But no: all we got to explore was some islands, some forest-y bits and a recycled New York. Meh.

5:52 oh, are you sure? Have you seen infinity war yet?

I consider this games campaign better than black flags because the latters had too much tailing missions.

I've completely missed this Assassin's Creed game, lol :D

Great review mate. The only thing stopping me from picking it up now is the fact that Origins gameplay has spoiled me for AC games now. I’m not sure I could revert to the old mechanics and gameplay elements.