Trivia / Assassin's Creed Rogue

• Completely Different Title: Or "Subtitle" in this case. Released in Russia as Assassin's Creed: Изгой (Assassin's Creed: The Exile). Can also be translated as "Outcast" or "Pariah".
• Development Gag: During the production of Assassin's Creed III, developers noted that the young George Washington had red hair but when they showed him during the Braddock Expedition they put him under a powdered wig to anachronistically recall his famous image, since they felt it would make him look weird. In Rogue, we finally get a glimpse of a dorky 20 year old redheaded George Washington.
• Fake Nationality: Like Dan Jeanotte for Assassin's Creed: Unity, Canadian actor Steven Piovesan plays the Irish Shay Cormac and it shows.
• The Other Darrin: The Templar William Johnson appears a couple of times in Rogue; however he's played by a new actor, and the new voice lacks the deep authority it had in Assassin's Creed III. The Irish accent is also notably weaker. Charles Lee also appears in one scene, but doesn't speak.
• What Could Have Been:
  • According to this podcast interview, there was an area planned for the first two sequences of the game that was cut for production reasons.
  • At the beginning of development writers thought about having Haytham as the main character, but this fell through when they realized it would come into conflict with Forsaken.
  • Originally after leaving the Brotherhood Shay was supposed to spent a couple of years as depressed drunkurd before getting a new chance in life as the Templar. It was dropped because writers couldn't make this time period interesting enough gameplay-wise.
• Working Title: For a while, Assassin's Creed Comet was the name being thrown around as the name for what Rogue would be before before it was announced.

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