Assassin’s Creed Rogue Remastered review

Reviewed on: Xbox One

Assassin’s Creed Rogue Remastered. Now this great game has been updated with glorious current-generation graphics.

Officially released in 2014, Assassin’s Creed Rogue is a title many players were unaware of. With a very good story and well-tuned gameplay, Rogue could have been far more successful.
Now with its remastered edition, the game can draw the attention of fans and series enthusiasts again. A great job was done on this remaster, and together with its whole body of work, this game deserves your attention.

The story

Shay is the character of this game; an Assassin in New York who during the events of the French and Indian War is forced to betray his own clan to prevent further disasters. Shay ends up having no choice but to turn his back on the Assassins. Now in the company of those who were always his enemies, the Templars. Unlike the other games in the series, this time you will see the fight from the other side.

The Assassins have always been shown as the heroes of the story, and the Templars as the evil to be defeated. This time you will get a different view, seeing the Templars’ side.
However, this does not happen from the start of the game; at that moment you still belong to the order of the Assassins, and follow a trip to Lisbon, on which your mission was to find an ancient artifact. Once he reaches his goal, Shay touches the relic, which causes an enormous catastrophe, killing thousands of innocents who lived there, and makes him question his own principles. Shay begins to question whether all this is right; after stealing the maps showing the location of the other artifacts, betraying his brotherhood, he is caught, and after a dangerous escape, Shay is shot and falls adrift in the ocean; that is where he is rescued and ends up meeting the Templar George Monroe, who shows that the Templars are not so bad after all.

Rogue is set in the 18th century, when the fashion of the moment was conquering the sea and new lands of the new world. And some might consider it a continuation of the great Black Flag, from which Rogue had good improvements in naval battles, with refinements over Black Flag; enemies can board you while you sail, and it is also possible to throw obstacles into the sea to hinder the pursuit of enemy ships.

Graphics and Sound

The Ubisoft team did a great job. The game has new textures, better lighting effects, in short, everything was improved thanks to the new hardware resources of the current generation, very well used. In 2014 the game was already quite competent with its graphics, but with the upgrade it can now draw much more attention. Don’t think you will find the same visual richness as Assassin’s Creed Origins, but you will no doubt find something quite satisfying and competent.

The game’s sound also got great treatment, improving all the sound effects and music of the series, always following the great Assassin’s Creed standard. Another point is the excellent PT-BR dubbing of the game, which was done with great care by the whole team.

This remaster runs at native 1080p on the PS4 and Xbox One, and reaches 4K on the PS4 Pro and Xbox One X, with additional texture updates.

Below you can check out some comparisons.

Gameplay

It follows the evolution the series’ games had in their day: fluid gameplay most of the time, but at some moments it will make you quite irritated, especially in the climbing of trees or towers, where it can sometimes jump into nothing, or simply not perform the indicated action.
During play, some bugs from the same time I played in 2014 were found; in some missions the NPCs did not walk or you kept climbing walls without having given the command.

Like me, who am playing the great Assassin’s Creed Origins, you get a view of how the series’ mechanics evolved over the games released in the series; the combat, climbing and chase modes were quite generic, something very different in Origins, which practically reinvented the series.

But none of this makes the game bad: it can get in your way at times, but it is something you can adapt to or work around. The game is still good and engaging, in its missions and its big ship battles.

The ship battles, which were excellent in Black Flag, were improved in this game, now with more attack and defense maneuvers, and the ship became easier and faster to control. On the high seas the conflicts are intense and well crafted, the enemy AI is also quite effective, the cannon battles are well crafted, which demands good strategy, or you may even be boarded by enemy ships and have to let go of the helm and fight your enemies in melee before they take your vessel.

Conclusion

For fans of the series, or those who want to try the game and did not buy it in the past, and own a current-generation console, it is still a good purchase. A fun game with a good story; the character may seem somewhat generic and charmless, but everything else manages to keep you in the game, and the naval battles may please you even more. And if you have an Xbox One X or a PS4 Pro, you can enjoy the game in 4K graphics.

Story: 7
Audio and visuals: 8
Gameplay: 7

The version tested was for Xbox One X