You can upgrade your sea monster to take on bigger ships. You’ll parkour around familiar locations and do battle on the high seas with your very own vessel, The Morrigan. It borrows heavily from Assassin’s Creed III and Black Flag. The gameplay is by-the-by and if you’ve played any of the last-gen Assassin’s Creed games, you’ll know what to expect. It turns out there’s a lot more going on in the middle ground and Rogue explores this brilliantly with a refreshing take told from the other side. But is it really the dark side? Every Assassin’s Creed game prior to Rogue painted the Templars as the ultimate evil and the Assassins as the ultimate force for good. He’s disillusioned with the Assassin brotherhood and he eventually turns to the dark side.
Rather than being yet another entry in the Assassin’s Creed series where you go searching for Pieces of Eden, you play as an Assassin-turned-Templar called Shay Cormac. Graphically it’s not as competent as Assassin’s Creed IV, and there’s definitely a lack of polish in some aspects of the game, but all of these shortcomings are easy to overlook given what the game sets out to do. Having it on a nice big handheld with controls made for the system – including gyro-aiming – is perfection.Īssassin’s Creed Rogue came at the very end of the PS3/Xbox 360 generation, and it definitely shows. I’d played a little using the PS4’s Remote Play feature with my PS Vita, but it just isn’t the same. This is the first time I’ve been able to truly play Rogue in handheld form. The main draw for me is the handheld play mode. That’s four times already, and yet I was still eager to go another round with the Nintendo Switch. I started my playthrough with Assassin’s Creed Rogue, a game I’ve played and completed PS3, PS4, Xbox 360 and PC. They’re both fantastic games in their own rights and, in my opinion, perfectly suited to the Nintendo Switch. The Rebel Collection includes the fan-favourite pirate-themed Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag, along with all of the previously released DLC, and Assassin’s Creed Rogue, the spin-off game that was massively overlooked due to releasing day and date with the next-gen Assassin’s Creed Unity. And who wouldn’t want such a great duo of games? So when Assassin’s Creed: The Rebel Collection released on the Nintendo Switch, I knew I had to have it. It’s become something of an obsession at this point.
Every time an older game gets a new release, I want it. I can’t begin to count the amount of times I’ve played through the various Assassin’s Creed games over the years.