Assassin’s Creed Rogue is a really underrated game! Shay was a great protagonist considering the fact that he sacrificed himself and his career as an assassin for the greater good of humanity. It was the first game to give players the chance to play as a Templar. Furthermore, the game had excellent shanties and music, as well as naval combat, and there were many fun activities. As far as the characters go, there were some great side characters in this story, like George Monro, Haytham Kenway, and Adewale, etc. It's not the best Assassin's Creed game, but it deserves way more attention than it received. In the future, it would be interesting if Ubisoft released another game with Shay or another game with a Templar perspective.

Hands Down AC rouge is the second most underrated game in this franchise. Even though it was Black Flag but Templars the templar part mad it amazing.

AC Rogue was the AC game I spent most time in, mostly just roaming around. Also it has Lisbon, which is my home town, which makes me have a soft spot in my heart.

I actually like how AC 3, black flag and rogue have a similiar system. it feels a lot more connected and it's good enough to be used for three games in a row in my opinion.

I loved how this game bridged the gap between AC 4 and AC 3, explaining what exactly happened to Achille’s assassins

I really enjoyed Rogue, and it's definitely one of my favorites in the series. Shay is a great protagonist, and the rest of the characters are interesting/solid. I also really liked the River Valley and Artic locations, the soundtrack, and similar-Black Flag gameplay (though I understand why some people didn't). I especially like the AC3 and Black Flag connections, and having played each of them somewhat recently, following the story throughout each of these different games was especially fun. My main criticism of Rogue would be the Templar element of the story. I felt like AC1 and AC3 did a better job of presenting the other side than Rogue, which I felt, maybe due to length, didn't go into the philosophical debate as thoroughly as the other games did. I also wished that Rogue utilized its historical context more. Playing AC3, I felt that the Revolutionary War was all around me, and thought the same thing with the Renaissance in AC2 and Brotherhood, and the Golden Age of Piracy in Black Flag. With Rogue, outside of the missions towards the second half of the game, it felt like it could've taken place anytime between 1700-1800, and not just during the French and Indian War.

I really love how Shay Cormac defeating the Stalkers highlights his familiarity with the Assassins' methods and tactics. Being that he was an Assassin himself, it makes obvious sense that he would be privy to how his former comrades operated and how he reworked his own fighting style to turn their own skills against them. I believe a quote 3TopicsGamer in his Shay vs. Aveline Versus Series video perfectly sums up the characters skills and talents, and it's that Shay Cormac is the "Darth Vader" of the Assassin's Creed series. In the franchise's entire chronological history, has been no other Templar like him before or since, and that makes him exceedingly unique among the franchise's protagonists.

Rogue is so underrated, when I first played I was drawn to the main theme, seriously I would sit at the main menu for a few minutes just to listen to the music. It’s refreshing that it was set during the Seven Years War since this period isn’t really talked about that much. Since I actually played Unity first I searched about how Arno’s father got killed and this led me to Rogue, and ended playing this game more than Unity, mostly for the reasons mentioned in this video. It was quite a shame that we only got to see a bit of the Colonial Brotherhood and there weren’t more of it

This and Unity are my two favorites in the whole series, they both improved on so much from the previous games: Rogue is basically Black Flag with muuuch better naval combat, improved combat and many fewer bugs and glitches. Unity has arguably the best graphics and parkour in any of the games, as well as challenging combat and a real sense of character progression.

12:20 You can actually do the charge ram attack in ac4 as well. It's just that you have to defeat all legendary ships in that game to unlock that ability.

Rogue was low-key one of my favorites. After I beat that game, it left me like "wow. That was phenomenal." Which does happen to me very often.

I remember really loving Rogue, it was so damn fun and Shay as a character was just incredibly enjoyable to learn about/hear him talk. Plus seeing the different characters again from 3 + 4 was just great. Although as you said it was very similar in gameplay to 4, it definitely is a really interesting and unique entry to the series.

Rogue is so underrated. I’m playing the remastered version for PS4 now after I just beat AC3 Remastered (again). The Kenway story is so great. Back in 2014 I chose Unity though between the two games.

I always loved Rogue and still do. It's honestly better than 4 imo. We get two areas for sailing (River Valley and Atlantic), and a large area for land exploration (Manhattan and parts of River Valley). Also the fact that you play as a Templar is really cool.

Rogue was one of the first AC games I played and is really the game that made me REALLY fall in love with Assassins Creed. After Rogue AC went from a game franchise I like to one I love! Shay is such a great protagonist and the story is beautifully and yes the main theme of Rogue is the best score of any AC game ever (maybe tied with Origins main menu theme). Rogue is extremely underrated. “I make my own luck, LIAM”

We need another AC game where we play as a templar, feels cool seeing it from their perspective for a change. Only this time we start off as a nobody, join the templars & make our way up the ranks. Maybe even give us a Ezio equivalent character with a trilogy of games.

One of my favorite video games off all time. I agree on most of your points. Underrated gem and with just a little more variety and a little longer story( maybe at least 8 sequences) this game would be held in high regards like BF. but I am glad now people are seeing Rogue for what it is!

Of course its an amazing game, it may be short but exploring the map after the story is amaing!

Recently finished rogue. Took about a week to platinum, it was a *mostly* enjoyable experience. Many things seem very incomplete and underdeveloped in my opinion. At times it feels like the teams in charge of certain aspects of the game didnt communicate at all. This is most noticeable in the economy, its like nobody was sure on what the value of the currency should be.

This is the first and only assassin's Creed game that I played and I was so shocked and had so much fun and I can't believe that this was the forgotten child in the AC series. It makes me wonder how good will other games who were given time to flourish be

AC Rogue was my very 1st AC Game & Introduction to the Franchise. And I absolutely loved it. Shay Patrick Cormac was the most interesting character I had ever played up until that point. As much as I was new, I did indeed feel that this game was short and could have been fleshed out more

I ended up getting the whole series and dlc idk when I'll get around to beating all of them but hey 😁 your videos have convinced me to try out the series.

Good video. I do agree Rogue is quite underrated. The idea of an Assassin turned Templar is interesting as you explore each side and how they operate. While it does copy from Black Flag, it still fun. I need to replay this too!

I’m also replaying the AC games and rating them based off of Story, Protagonist, Gameplay and Map. I never played Rogue because I had next gen and did Unity. I was so pleasantly surprised with rogue after just finishing and it is so high on my list!

I just finished rouge for the first time yesterday, and it was a lot better than I though. Definitely not the best AC game but I really enjoyed it and I loved seeing Achilles and Haytham again. The main flaw of this game is that the story was too short to be properly developed but what we got was great.

I actually finished it last week after playing it for the first time, Honestly one of favorite Assassins Creed game It’s got me saying “I make my own luck” every chance I get and it shows us another side of the Templars and made me question the ideology of the Assassins vs the Templars Also, one of my favorite protagonists in Shay

Love this longer video format!

One of my favorite ac games. Seeing the templars side was awesome and I love it. My 4th or 3rd favorite game in the series.

So...I got into Assassin's Creed back in the winter of 2020. With the pandemic and everything and with a wife working as a nurse....The world was quite the scary place...I was working from home and absolutley fell in love with the series, started out with the Ezio Collection and made my way trough all of em in a span of a few weeks...Assassin's Creed Rogue has by far been my favourite, i love the "depth" of Shay, he's way more intresting then many of the other assassin's with that he's much more conflicted then many of the others we get to play as. The ending is also probably the best endning i have ever seen in a game to be fair.

I would love to see a series like: Shay vs… (any assassin) It would be fun to put Shay as an literal assassin hunter against the actual master assassins we know from the games. Especially Shay vs arno because of their backstory

AC Rouge is way too underrated, Shay is a great character and I really love his devolopment and it is definitivly worth the buy

Shay is my second favorite protagonist only beat out by Ezio because I started in assassin‘s creed. 2 but I love the gameplay I just finished it for the second time in the past two years fourth time overall and I’m trying to 100% everything I love the game. Amazing story and it might honestly be my second favorite game.

Well, I literally just bought Rogue yesterday and this video pops up. I absolutely love the game and the story of Shay Patrick Cormac but you can definitely tell the developers wanted to give it a lot more care and attention than what they had to work with but it ultimately still came out to be a solid game even with the lackluster resources.

After playing through Rogue and getting a roughly 80% completion rate, I can see why the Colonial Brotherhood is considered by many a weak and broken brotherhood when they were messing around and trying to disturb the precursor temples that as stated have the power to destroy cities. It was sad to see Shay have to fight and kill his friends (especially Adewale if you played AC4 beforehand and to an extent Freedom cry) and as well as the game showing both sides with the Assassins and Templars and found myself seeing how both sides in of themselves can be good (or bad) and finally the modern day sections, only really explored for the tablets to get the best pistols and that was it. It was boring and I hated when the experience was interrupted to do some random task for this girl that had an annoying voice (I actually muted voices during the modern day sections until I got back into the animus)

Your such a good KZfaq creator

rogue was my sixth assassin's creed game experience. been a fan since the original game came out. And i must say,i've played most of the game franchise and heres an honest review of rogue It is my third favorite game in the series and it's just awesome. The winter experience is awesome. The pirate-like experience like ACBF made me fell in love with the game. The stealth AI got improved ALOT. If your favorite AC game is BF(like me), this game is a must play For the best experience, I reccomend playing the game from AC 3,4 then rogue. its system is similliar to each other. The story line of the game is not betrayal,but fixing which is soo good

I really liked AC rogue I remember I got it as a Christmas present the year it came out. I had no Idea it even existed till that morning. I hope we can get a future game from the templars side or one like your AC Revenge video

One of those moments where I tapped on the top of the screen the moment the notification popped up

This was the first AC game that I thoroughly played through and I absolutely loved it this game made me fall in love with the AC franchise and now I'm trying to complete them all. I even loved it so much that I bought the remastered version on ps5 so I can play it again even tho I had already bought and played it on the original console it was released on. I remember my older brother playing the first AC game and the ezio game was when I was a kid and I only saw little bits of it because he wouldn't let me watch and that just made me more curious about it so now that I'm older I'm completely in love with this franchise and I have AC Rouge to thank for it❤🖤❤🖤❤🖤❤🖤

It was my second ac game and I loved it, from the story, gameplay and soundtrack. I thought it was a really unique take on the AC games and one of my favourites

The stalkers show the potential of an Assassins vs Templars multiplayer game. The fact they’re AI controlled makes them less of a challenge to the more practiced players, and putting an actual person at the controls so you’re either trying to assassinate a player or trying to outsmart a human controlled assassin would be quite the experience and a new take on a multiplayer.

Personally I loved it. When it came out, I didn’t have the (then) next-gen system, so I waited to get Unity until after (most of) the bugs were fixed. I loved how Rogue kind of flipped the script. My only major complaint was how short it was.

I finished today and loved it, it was an interesting take and a cool part between the story of the Kenway family

i love this video 👍👍👍 exactly what i needed to determine if i should buy the game or not, its on sale on xbox one right noe for 8.99

Still my favourite game in the series, it took everything I enjoyed from Black Flag and improved upon it. I love the setting too, really weak to winter areas.

Played both Assassin's Creed III and Black Flag, I love both of the story, especially when "Parting Glass" music started, I feel sad that Kenway wasn't met his wife at last. Thanks for your review, was thinking which should I buy. Let me continue the story on both Rogue and Unity, it should be more completed.

Im actually kind of glad that rogue came out when it did ,its a blessing for people lile me with a potato laptop

rogue was the first ac game i really played. at a steam sale i got ac one and rogue for 4 euros or something, played one, fell out of it partially because of the controls. months later i tried rogue and loved it, got more ac games after that

I've only just started playing this, I've owned it for ages but the 60fps boost on SX (and SS) has made this game a joy to play, that water looks insanely good considering this was a 360/PS3 game.

I love how this game shows us that the assassins vs Templars conflict isn’t so black and white. And that there’s a lot of gray. I also like knowing that not all Templars are bad and not all assassins are good.

I was just wondering tho ln while watching ya ac3 remaster video... Btw sorry bout ya for save data loss on black flag

The music in this game is AMAZING

Your words man on 2:30 it's like poetry it hits so hard in real life :))

It was underrated game and was enjoyable to play when it was remastered. It was one of the few games I actually 100% completed.

Thank you for the review I have been getting back into the AC games and decided to play some of the ones that I haven't played yet Rogue being among them, so after your review I will definitely be giving Rogue a try. Thanks

I love playing this game so and this game much to infinity ♾️ and nice to watch this review and ving together about assassins creed rogue and anything about assassins creed and in general being together and spending love and time together❤❤❤❤❤

Rogue is my favorite part of the saga. Beautifully done.

Love your video man

Story of Rogue is very underrated. According to me, its very short, packed and tight story. There's no bulshitting points (unlike latest titles). I have enjoyed Rogue a lot.

Really, really good review. I wasn't a fan of Rogue (mostly because I was an AC VI BF mega fan), but you raise some really good points on the pros and cons of Rogue. Might replay after watching this 👍

I love it because the storyline and his deadlines is so good and it is such an underrated game

hope you had fun on your vacation!

Recently i have finished the ezio trilogy and was planning to start ac 3 but thanks for this video, i will play rogue first now and it seems very promising and i am here for it lol

The grenade launcher I adored bc when I got this game I still had a massive loathing for the grenade bastards in previous games so it felt AMAZING to give them a taste of their own medicine

thank you so much for this review, rogue honestly is a great assassins creed game and shay is so loveable even if he is a templar

If you seek out the dropped data pads around Abstergo Entertainment in the present day there’s quite a bit of interesting tidbits including in-universe acknowledgment that they reused the Animus interface from the Kenway research project. The mystery computer virus storyline doesn’t have payoff but the present day protagonist does present a contrast to the one from Black Flag in that this time you are approached to join the Templars and not the Assassins.

I remember I actually was holding onto my 360 cause I just loved it and I ended up pre-ordering both Unity/Rogue. Rogue was my favorite of the two, it just had a great setting imo and Shay is a great protagonist. I wanna go back to play Unity cause I sold it before it was polished and never beat it.

For me Rogue is in my top 5 thanks to story, world, music and everyting. I really love this game.

hope you had a good vacation

I like the Templar aesthetics to the morrigan with the black and red...just a great color scheme to the Templars

i miss the Navel combat system..... both Rouge and Black Flag had the ships and i just fell in love with that..

I’ve had it in my library forever got it for 9$ a while ago and played it on ps5 literally today and it’s awesome.

Another thing I like with AC: Rogue is that there are certains settlements that you traverse cross via land. There is no need to circle around thru the sea on the same island.

ac rogue was my first ac game, and i played it again and fell in love with it

I remember buying this game day 1 at game stop they were trying too sell me unity but I stuck to my guns glad I did.

Hope you had a good vacation man :)

I also just realized that when Arno's dad died the person that kills him is Shay and I found this out midway through my playthrough in Ac Unity

Great review and the last 10 sec of the video were fire. But there are some false information; 1. Combat did change You got the firecrackers that work like the blood bombs from Revelations kinda, bounty hunters and ofc stalkers. Especially the air assassination fights were great af. 2. Parkour did change They added the new scaffold automatic stuff which are good IMO tho I prefer climbing scaffolds manually in AC4, tho they were rare. They also re-introduced civilian air tackle and air assassination making the parkour a bit better. I enjoyed 'flying' on flags and the cheap zipppines, besides its the only game that has those unless Revelations and Origins, Syndicate partually. 3. Boarding is not the same You can get boarded by enemies now which is pointless unless you have a difficulty changer mod 4. In fact Rogue has better graphics Black Flag has an exotic boost but the textures and graphics are 5% better in Rogue

Rogue was my second ac game, and I have very fond memories of it

I actually think they should make more games following the templars. Let us play as the antagonist for once. It felt so cool to run around wearing Templar colors and do Templar things like get hunted by assassins or not getting kicked out of the game for killing civilians

Literally opened the game when I got this recommended

Rogue didn’t quite have the same awesome vibe that Black Flag had but that’s because it is a completely different type of story. Black Flag was no doubt a better game but the way they changed things up but still kept it revolving around a ship captain type of story was actually amazing. The idea of having 2 different maps that were both very different from each other and diffferent from black flag was a great idea. Also being a Templar and having assassins hunting you was a great addition. PLUS you actually get the rope dart at a reasonable time in the game and can actually use it lol

About to play it for the first time today. Played all AC games except this one. Just recently i found out you play as a Templar so i have to try it.

Underrated Entry. If you loved Black Flag’s gameplay, give it a whirl!

On the day he uploaded this i started playing rouge what a coincidence

Rouge is by far my favorite assassins creed its a real shame that it is so short like you can play through the game in 4 to 6h I think its one of my most replayed games of all time I wish they would do another one where you play a templar

I definitely think it’s worth buying and playing especially if it’s on sale which I’m pretty sure it goes on sale quite a bit. It’s good but not better than most of the games in the series but imo it’s better than the 3 most recent games in the series

Loving these videos. Just not getting into AC. I think I'll start this group with black flag first order.

This was one of my fav ac games! Because it’s so unique! I loved the return of haythem. And playing as a templar is fun in a way. It shows how each side isn’t evil.

Any ac game that is not shitty rpg is all i want and more ASASSIN stuff

I honestly felt like rogue needed some more development time and it was also weird because it seemed like an improved version of Black flag with certain elements was almost like a really big black flag DLC

I was kinda hoping Ubisoft would do more games from the Templar perspective. I really liked this change.

Love this

I've played it and I liked it honestly I did find the short time to complete threw me off a bit but I think if they focused in it they could have done more with it

Wow can't believe I'm finally early for one of these. Even though I enjoy Rogue and think every AC fan should give it a try, it's definetely among my least favorite of the series. Most people who praise the game tend to focus on the story and Shay's character, but ignore the fact that the way Rogue plays out its premise is as generic as possible (the Assassins and Templars basically switching places for no reason). While I think Shay's "betrayal" of the Assassins is executed well enough and he is justified in his actions, we are given no reason to symphatize with the Templars other than they are nice. For a game with a premise like this, I expected it to be more philosophical (like AC 1 and 3), but instead the premise is wasted on another generic good guys vs bad guys story. Maybe the story would've been better if Shay was written differently, but he loses any bit of personality and intirgue he had after the first act. As for the side characters, they are either generic and forgettable, or unlikeable jerks for no reason (this game managed to make Haytham, one of the best characters in the franchise, boring). As for the gameplay, it's fine, but the problem is that Black Flag didn't have that good land gameplay to begin with, so this is reflected in Rogue. I appreciate all the little improvements, but they're not enough to salvage Black Flag's gameplay. And the world is just one of the worst in the series. The North Atlantic is beautiful enough at night, but it's a boring mess of copy pasted island, and the other two parts of the map, I just didn't care for them (not to mention the River Valley is completely made up). Overall, Rogue is a perfectly fine game, it's fun to play in spite of its flawed gameplay and boring world, but I just can't get over how Ubisoft completely wasted this premise and treated some of the characters. 7/10 (only get it if you like Black Flag's gameplay or are a hardcore fan of the series) If you made it to the end of this essay, good job. Here, have a lolipop 🍭

so, I've started the saga recently and I finished the ezio trilogy, what should I play next? Just playing them in the original order, so based on when they were released, or following your opinion about the connection between these wonderful games?

It's definitely something to collect but not really necessary for story as u won't miss much but if u love black flag and 3 it's a good mix of the 2

They could have had Shays missions in France appear at the end of AC 3. That would have been an epic plot twist, then have Shay appear in Unity.

Rogue is always my underrated take and to this day is one of my favorite games in the series and one of my favorites games period.

I wish they would’ve have made a game focusing on Connor vs Shay. I feel like that story would have been amazing to see.