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Assassin’s Creed Rogue 2014, PC 2015

f all the mainline games, is the slightest, sandwiched between the on the one hand and and on the other. It presents Irish American Shay Cormac as an Assassin turned Templar. Tortured by guilt over the former’s consequentialist ethics, seen first-hand when Shay triggers the catastrophic 1755 Lisbon earthquake while on assignment, he sets out to hunt down Assassins in pre-Revolution New York and the North Atlantic’s vistas of snow and water. The final act of the American trilogy, developed by Ubisoft Sofia, aimed to deliver more of what made good, and did just that.

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