Quite understandably most of the landscape you’re travelling through is fairly sparsely populated, and so there’s relatively few story-based side quests of any note.

But don’t worry because there’s only a few story missions set there anyway.Īs you may already have gathered pootling along a Canadian river isn’t quite as glamorous as terrorising the Caribbean during the Golden Age of Piracy. The only major city is New York, which as ever is less exciting than it sounds when most of the buildings are still only a few storeys high. That means no underwater sections, but you do get the fun of avoiding icebergs during combat and sailing down rivers in the Great Appalachian Valley. Rogue takes place much further north than the previous games, edging into the Arctic wastelands. So perhaps it’s just as well that Unity didn’t have any actual French people in it.) (Although he was probably distracted trying to maintain his dodgy Irish accent. That’s certainly a trademark feature of the Assassin’s Creed series nowadays but all his moaning and groaning, as he tries to work his way through every anti-hero cliche in the book, is as tiresome to listen to as it apparently was for the voice actor to perform. It doesn’t help that Shay is such a predictably dull character. You still have to wear a hoodie, and although your armoury of weapons is slightly different it makes almost no difference to the way the game plays. This is the first time you’ve been able to play as the franchise’s nominal bad guys for a whole game, but inevitably the change in allegiance means very little in practical terms. Set a few years after the events of Black Flag, the game casts you as one Shay Patrick Cormac – who has trained as an Assassin but during the opening third of the game switches sides to become a Templar.

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