Assassin's Creed: Ranking Every Game's Story From Worst To Best

The one where the franchise went in a completely new direction.

After years of the black and white scenario of Assassins = Good, Templars = Bad, Rogue turned this entire idea on its head by revealing the fact that it's not so simple. This was no longer a battle between good and evil, but rather a clashing of two distinct ideologies.

Is it better to have freedom, or safety?

In a series that has grown increasingly stale, Rogue manages to be the best by doing something completely different. The main foe of the entire franchise was suddenly humanized beyond "we are evil just because."

Shay turning on his Assassin brethren is given a reason in the single greatest set piece in the franchise's history. With it was the realization that each of the friends and allies Shay had in the beginning of the game were now his sworn enemies and future assassination targets.

Fan favorites such as Haytham and Adéwalé both return here, the former as a fleshed out mentor, the latter as a reluctant foe. Despite going up against the "heroic" assassins that had defined every other game in the franchise, Shay easily comes across as the most sympathetic. It's really a shame that the franchise hasn't done more with the Templars.

Despite flying under the radar due to Ubisoft's bizarre decision to release this game concurrently with Unity, Rogue deserves a second look as the greatest story in the Assassin's Creed franchise.