ASSASSINS CREED 3 NINE MENS MORRIS UPGRADE

Really, it's going to come down to how much you like Assassin's Creed. Again, though, it's a port of a stop-gap console release. Rogue was not made by the Ubisoft 'A' Team, but it feels every bit as well put together as the main-stage releases, which is perhaps more than could be said for Liberation. But when the numbering went out the window after AC4, it's all been drifting toward the middle. Ubisoft used to be pretty open about which AC games were the flagship releases (if you excuse the pun) and which were sort of 'AC lite' episodes.

Friends become enemies and vice versa, and Cormack does a pretty good job of agonising over his tortured loyalties. Cormac's story - which frankly starts out pretty dully for the first couple of hours - gets much more interesting as things progress. Quite honestly, it's hard to really pick out a lot that's really genuinely new.īut while many of the cast are recycled from previous creeds (namely AC3, Liberation, Pirates and Black Flag), the Ubisoft guys are pretty good at taking real historical events and weaving them into the Assassin's Creed tale of conspiracy in every corner. Loot enemy ships, play a million and one subgames (every time I see that Nine Men's Morris guy in the tavern I want to punch his stupid face), craft pouches for more weapons out of the pelts of slain wildlife a la Far Cry, buy new clothes (for prices equal to the haul from two treasure ships or twenty five treasure chests), and so on and so forth. Chase flapping sea shanties across rooftops and then get your crew to sing them.

ASSASSINS CREED 3 NINE MENS MORRIS UPGRADE

Upgrade your hull strength and your mortars. It's a criticism which is often levelled at AC games, and at Ubi stuff in general - they all kind of seep together into a mostly-indistinguishable mass, and if there's a target acquiring system that works in, say, Far Cry, we're likely to see it cropping up in AC before too long. So what do you do with Assassin's Creed Rogue? Why, you release AC Black Flag again! And this is the big shrug that's going to have to accompany Rogue. Then, here's Unity and everybody's a bit meh. Because for all of his changing sides and being all Templar-y, Shay's AC game is as conformist as they come.Ī good time was had by most in AC Black Flag, with its freebooting, buccaneering hijinks. Oh, and there's some 'rogue data' Animus thing going on as well, I suppose.īut in terms of rogue meaning outlier, errant figure not willing to play by the established rules, I can't help but raise my special skeptical eyebrow. Because Shay Cormac, the sometimes-beardy and always-Irish protagonist of the latest Assassin's Creed outing, is a roguish chap who enjoys a good bar brawl or two and chats enthusiastically about the nether regions of Cuban womenfolk, but he also goes rogue - a disillusioned Assassin who throws his lot in with the Templars. It's kind of a clever title, because it works on a few levels.

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