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Now, try getting that to happen two times in one go.
That was the fate that awaitedAssassin’s Creed Rogue, the successor toAssassin’s Creed 4: Black Flag.
It was overshadowed by its own series.
‘May very well’ because I can’t say definitively.
I certainly wasn’t going to plug an older console back in to find out.
AC Rogue is the first entry I skipped, and it didn’t even feel like a conscious decision.
Why return to a game that felt minimized by its own publisher when it first launched?
This, as it happened, was a foolish lapse in my judgment.
One I’ve been unknowingly paying for over the course of a decade and change.
Don’t make the same mistake I did.
With that said, the narrative here does, by game’s end, leave much to be desired.
A novel idea, and one that builds on the incredible opening act ofAssassin’s Creed 3.
Rather than wrangling any complex ideas, it ends up doing the opposite oversimplifying everything.
Look up and an Assassin may be waiting to leap down on you as you walk by.
What makes AC Rogue great is that it features many such smart iterations.
Not to mention this was all originally on that older hardware!
But the reality wasn’t so simple.
And it’s frequently on deep discount too!
Shay, as he’s always pointing out, makes his own luck.
Unfortunately for AC Rogue, he got unlucky.
Won’t you help him out?
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