Assassin's Creed: Ranking All The Games From Worst To Best

7. Assassin's Creed: Rogue

The one year when we all went "Alright guys, it's getting a bit much", 2014 had Ubisoft try to release two 'triple-A' main instalments in the canon at once. We were already reeling from the annual rollout from for the previous five years, and Ubi had decided that rather than wait and take some time off, they'd instead deliver a dedicated next-gen instalment on new hardware, alongside a tried n' tested iteration on Black Flag for the older machines. Sadly it completely backfired as far as Unity was concerned, but Rogue was the sort of standard AC experience you already knew and loved. The game engine was exactly the same, with innovation coming in the form of Shay Cormac; an assassin who was rebelling against his own Order, setting up a cool concept - if not much else - as you attempted to dispatch assassins for a change. In addition, Ubisoft fleshed out the amount of weapons on offer including an air rifle and grenade launcher, as well as delivering another large-scale map that favoured exploration and chasing the horizon. Sadly, whilst all these things came together into a solid enough package, its reliance on being so utterly formulaic and stagnant resigns it to the the bottom half of the list.