Many features of Black Flag return, such as sea shanties (“around” 20 new ones mixed in with old ones), harpoon hunting challenges, dynamic ship-to-ship battle events, fleet building, and Morrigan upgrades fueled by scrap gathered throughout the world. You also get to see some of the ship’s new weapons in action, including an early machine gun turret, a front-firing cannon equipped with explosive shells, and a rear-firing spill of burning oil.

Some of the new features showcased in the naval footage include the Morrigan’s Icebreaker Ram upgrade, which is used to cut through some of the dense ice floes that bar progress in Rogue‘s open seas. This region was the site of some of the heaviest fighting between the British and French during the Seven Years’ War that spanned 1752 through 1761. The first clip focuses entirely on the game’s naval play, with protagonist Shay Patrick Cormac, a Templar, piloting his ship, the Morrigan, through the rough sees of the North Atlantic Ocean. It’s very different from Unity, much more akin to evolution of what AC4: Black Flag delivered, but it’s got a whole bunch of new tricks for players to make use of, as you can see in this part of newly released gameplay clips from Gamescom 2014. Fitbit Versa 3ĭon’t look at Assassin’s Creed Rogue as the “lesser” AC game for 2014 just because it’s only heading to PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 consoles.