First impressions:
Uplay is broken again.
The menus are virtually the same as Black Flag but are a much nicer color.
The music so far seems decent.
There doesn't appear to be a companion app for Rogue.
Okay, starting a new game.
Ironically enough, this game seems to be locked at 30. I'm probably wrong, but this opening scene is beautifully steady.
The graphics seem pretty great. At least as good as Black Flag(On PS3, anyway). I like the snowy environments.
Treasure maps are back, which makes having no convenient companion app even more disappointing.
The world map seems to be about half as big as Black Flag. And Black Flag was huge.
It seems one of the collectible types is some sort of Viking Sword. I unlock the treasure location after finding 15 pieces.
The lip-syncing is pretty hilariously bad. It looks like someone with no understanding of conversation mouthing along.
After obtaining a ship of my own, I was instructed to destroy an innocent iceberg. Little did we know, this Iceberg was the father to a power and vengeful Iceberg Son who would go on and get his revenge by sinking the Titanic.
After watching a cutscene and hearing a Shanty from Black Flag, I wake up in The Abstergo office in the modern day and I'm pretty sure I'm the same character from Black Flag. Neato.
That's about it for now. But the game seems super stable and I haven't even really gotten too deep yet, so anything can change. Make no mistake however: This IS Black Flag 1.5. Nothing I've seen thus far has given me any reason to suspect it will offer many big advances, but if you at least liked Black Flag this should be your kind of thing.
I'll probably keep posting more stuff about this game as I get into it.
EDIT: There's an "easter egg" picture of Splinter Cell Conviction, but it says "Blacklist" instead. It's funny because Conviction didn't come out on PS3, which is where I'm playing the game.
EDIT: Being boarded is really fun and challenging if you aren't quick in dismissing the enemies.
On that note, boarding enemy vessels can be difficult as Captains are now much more powerful and for instance, are capable of killing you in two attacks if you aren't quick in countering or parrying. The combat in Black Flag got monotonous after a while so the extra challenge here is welcome, I think.
In Black Flag you would go entire sequences without getting the next progressional upgrade for your ship, while in Rogue I've gotten three major weapons for my ship in just one mission.
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