wildturkey
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Are Rogue and Unity the same game? Are either of them worthy of a play?
I've read that Rogue is a fairly solid game but that Unity was a broken mess.
Are Rogue and Unity the same game? Are either of them worthy of a play?
They are not the same. Rogue is a spinoff of Black Flag. If you liked Black Flag then definitely play Rogue over Unity. Unity was a waste of time IMO. Like I said in a post prior to this, if you want to stick with the lineage then at least watch the Unity gameplay cinematics through youtube. Basically like watching the highlights or reading the cliff notes lol.Are Rogue and Unity the same game? Are either of them worthy of a play?
Gotta agree with all the above...Finally picked this up last week for a discounted price (35 bucks). Here are my impressions so far but keep in mind I'm only 50% of the way through the game:
-Storywise its pretty lacking. I expected the present day stuff to be bland since they abandoned a lot of that stuff in AC3 and it is. You're looking for the Shroud of Turin but so far they are very vague about why and really, pretty vauge about why Templars and Assassins are still fighting each other considering the story use to be about them getting control of whatever mystical force was gonna happen in the older games that led to 2012.
The historical story is pretty weak as well. So far its just "This Templar dude has control of London. Let's take it from him" with next to zero character development.
-Graphics wise, it looks pretty damn good and I haven't had any broken game moments where things load incorrectly like I had in AC3 (and apparently Unity was terrible for this).
-Gameplay is pretty solid. Motions and controls are fluid for the most part. However, the controls get janky at times. Like the characters will climb up shit you told them not to and its a pain in the ass to get them to stop. The drop button works like shit at times too. Like I'll press it and the character gets dangles there doing nothing or starts climbing on something else. It's not as bad as AC3 was at times but it happens more often than it should.
-Level design is pretty solid but halfway through a lot of it is getting repetitive. I like to do all the side missions will doing the main story but the result is my character is basically fully leveled up halfway through the game. The result is no enemy really presents a challenge. But even if it did, the levels have gotten repetitive enough that you've seen the jist of everything before so there isn't anything to challenge you anyway. The plus side is none of the levels are broken or have a really poor design. AC3 had a few like that sucked so bad you just wanted to break your controller for how stupid it was.
Overall I'd give the game like a 7 out 10. Maybe 7.5. It's decent and worth playing for awhile, but its not close to the older Ezio games but its definitely better than AC3.