It is the 7th major installment inside the Assassin’s Creed series, and is set between 2013’s Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag and 2012’s Assassin’s Creed III with its final project being the prologue to 2014’s Assassin’s Creed Unity. It is the closing of the Assassin’s Creed video games to be evolved for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, for which it become first released in November 2014.[1][2] It become launched for Microsoft Windows in March 2015,[3][4] and a remastered model become released for PlayStation four and Xbox One in March 2018.[5] It changed into released at the Nintendo Switch as part of The Rebel Collection along Black Flag in December 2019.[6]

The plot is set in a fictional history of real-global occasions and follows the centuries-antique struggle between the Assassins, who combat for peace with unfastened will, and the Templars, who choice peace via control. The story is about inside the mid-18th century throughout the Seven Years’ War, and follows Shay Patrick Cormac, an Assassin-became-Templar who hunts down former participants of his Brotherhood after being betrayed by them. Gameplay in Rogue is very similar to that of Black Flag with a mixture of deliver-based naval exploration and third-man or woman land-based totally exploration with some new functions.

Upon launch, Rogue received a mixed reception; even as maximum critics praised the sport’s twist at the conventional method by gambling as a Templar, the mature tale-line, the complicated protagonist, the state-of-the-art depiction of the combat among Templars and Assassins, in addition to the additions to the franchise’s lore and the naval warfare gameplay, different reviewers criticized it for failing to innovate the series’ system and its similarities to Black Flag.

Assassin’s Creed Rogue is an motion-adventure, stealth recreation set in an open international environment and performed from a third-individual perspective. Naval aspects from previous video games return with the participant controlling Shay’s ship, the Morrigan. The Morrigan has a shallower draft compared to Edward Kenway’s Jackdaw from Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag, making an allowance for river tour.[1][7] New capabilities encompass new ship-primarily based weapons consisting of freeing an oil slick which can then be ignited, Puckle guns, and the ability for enemies to board the Morrigan throughout ship-to-ship combat. The arctic environment also provides capabilities to naval gameplay and exploration, as certain icebergs may be rammed with an icebreaker.[8] However, the underwater diving missions featured in Black Flag do now not exist as swimming inside the North Atlantic causes the player’s health to hastily deplete due to the frigid water, although Shay is able to swim in the greater southerly waters of the ‘river valley’ location.[9]

For combat, the sport introduces an air rifle, just like the blowpipe from Black Flag, which lets in the player to silently take out enemies at a distance. The air rifle may be outfitted with a diffusion of different projectiles, consisting of firecrackers. The player also can use it as a grenade launcher, which fires off shrapnel grenades and other hundreds.[7] Hand-to-hand fight has been slightly altered, and now enemy assaults can be countered with timing, much like the Batman: Arkham series of video games. Enemy Assassins feature archetypes just like previous video games, the usage of abilities that gamers had been the usage of at some point of the collection; they could disguise in timber, blend in with crowds, and perform air assassinations against the player.[9] Poison gas can now be used as an environmental weapon, and Shay has a mask that may mitigate its results, and Shay’s Eagle Vision also takes elements from the multiplayer feature of the previous video games that allowed them to track an enemy’s position via a radar-like gadget, or even with out it, Shay is capable of detect enemy presence with the display edges going pink and is also capable of as it should be foresee while and from where his enemies will strike.