Assassin's Creed Rogue

The 2014 game in which an Assassin turns Templar, Shay Patrick Cormac.

Assassin's Creed Rogue is a 2014 action-adventure game made by Ubisoft Sofia and released by Ubisoft, the seventh major installment of the series. It is set alongside Assassin's Creed III and after Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag, and it came out on the same day as Assassin's Creed Unity.

It was released for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 in November 2014 and for Windows in March 2015, the last game of the series made for that console generation.

Quick Facts

Developer

Ubisoft Sofia

Publisher

Ubisoft

Director

Mikhail Lozanov
Spass Kroushkov
Martin Capel

Producer

Ivan Balabanov

Designer

Martin Capel

Artist

Eddie Bennun

Writer

Richard Farrese

Composer

Elitsa Alexandrova

Facts from the source article.

Background

The main plot runs from 1752 to 1760, before and during the French and Indian War, and follows Shay Patrick Cormac, an Irish American privateer and Assassin. Disillusioned with the Brotherhood's methods, he defects to the Templars and helps them hunt down his former comrades.

In the modern framing story, the player is an employee of Abstergo Industries who uncovers secrets of the Assassin-Templar conflict while trying to repair the company's servers. Play closely follows Black Flag, mixing naval exploration on Shay's ship, the Morrigan, with third-person exploration on land across the North Atlantic, the River Valley and New York City.

Reception was mixed: critics liked the twist of playing as a Templar, the story, the protagonist and the naval combat, but faulted its short length, its lack of new ideas and how much it resembled Black Flag.