I never played this game when it first released, because I was younger and I just couldn't fathom how Ubisoft could release an Assassin's Creed game about a Templar. Oh, the humanity!
I came to learn that Rogue is basically Black Flag, but even more up my alley in terms of historical tourism. Black Flag takes place in the sunny, tropical Caribbean. You are playing as Edward Kenway, a boy who thinks he is a man and learns what it means to be a man over the course of the story. Assassin's Creed Rogue juxtaposes Shay Cormac (the protag) and Edward Kenway in more ways than the color of their robes.
Shay's inner conflict that drives him away from the Assassins stems from a mission in which he inadvertently causes the great earthquake of Lisbon in 1755. Shay, feeling awful for doing the bidding of the smarmy and secretive Assassins becomes disillusioned and winds up as a Templar.
I will say, I find Shay to be a bit whiny but he is also more mature than Edward. Shay already has a moral compass. Shay already knows what he thinks is right and wrong, and through this conviction he becomes the most dangerous Templar to ever live. He is an Assassin killer, through and through.
To return to the setting, Rogue takes place mostly in North America and the river systems, bays and inlets of New England. Shay will also take his ship, the Morrigan, out into Canada and up around Greenland. I have never seen an environment like this before in a video game and it just works so well for me, a fan of American history and frontiersmanship.
Rogue is definitely more than a "re-skinned" Black Flag - but also, it doesn't have to be. Trade your unbuttoned blouses and headbands for a heavy winter coat and whaling cap as you and Shay meticulously slaughter the American Colonial Brotherhood of Assassins and set up the stories of Assassin's Creed 3 and Assassin's Creed Unity.
My review of Black Flag for more substance: https://www.backloggd.com/u/onlinealot/review/217227/
I came to learn that Rogue is basically Black Flag, but even more up my alley in terms of historical tourism. Black Flag takes place in the sunny, tropical Caribbean. You are playing as Edward Kenway, a boy who thinks he is a man and learns what it means to be a man over the course of the story. Assassin's Creed Rogue juxtaposes Shay Cormac (the protag) and Edward Kenway in more ways than the color of their robes.
Shay's inner conflict that drives him away from the Assassins stems from a mission in which he inadvertently causes the great earthquake of Lisbon in 1755. Shay, feeling awful for doing the bidding of the smarmy and secretive Assassins becomes disillusioned and winds up as a Templar.
I will say, I find Shay to be a bit whiny but he is also more mature than Edward. Shay already has a moral compass. Shay already knows what he thinks is right and wrong, and through this conviction he becomes the most dangerous Templar to ever live. He is an Assassin killer, through and through.
To return to the setting, Rogue takes place mostly in North America and the river systems, bays and inlets of New England. Shay will also take his ship, the Morrigan, out into Canada and up around Greenland. I have never seen an environment like this before in a video game and it just works so well for me, a fan of American history and frontiersmanship.
Rogue is definitely more than a "re-skinned" Black Flag - but also, it doesn't have to be. Trade your unbuttoned blouses and headbands for a heavy winter coat and whaling cap as you and Shay meticulously slaughter the American Colonial Brotherhood of Assassins and set up the stories of Assassin's Creed 3 and Assassin's Creed Unity.
My review of Black Flag for more substance: https://www.backloggd.com/u/onlinealot/review/217227/