This game is the shortest Assassins Creed game with only 7 main memory sequences.

Some Templars and assassins from previous installments make an appearance; like: Haytham Kenway, William Johnson, Achillies Davenport and Adewale

While Assassin's Creed: Unity was developed specifically for the next generation consoles (Xbox One, PS4) Assassin's Creed: Rogue was made exclusively for the last generation consoles (Xbox 360, PS3) as compensation as well as to bridge Assassin's Creed III, IV, and Unity together.

This is the first game where the main protagonist is a Templar.

In the present-day setting, if you look on the desk of the player's Animus, you can see a magazine pile or two with the Farcry 3 cover on top of them. Farcry is another game series made by Ubisoft, who make Assassin's Creed.

This installment is the first Assassin's Creed game to break with the unofficial tradition of having a new protagonist while the title doesn't include a number. In the past, a chronological installment would introduce a new lead.

Despite most of the promotional material showing Shay wearing a hood with his Templar outfit, the hood is not present within the game. Once the character dons his Templar outfit, the hood is absent but can be customized into other costumes.

Assassin's Creed Rogue is the Xbox 360 and Playstation 3 release for 2014, while Assassin's Creed Unity is for the Xbox one and Playstation 4.

When Shay visits New York, one of the street vendors can be heard proffering up a Ruby Rhod (Fifth Element) quote.

In Assassin's Creed III, Connor's mentor, Achilles, has a limp. We never find out why he has this limp. In this game, we discover that it is because Haytham Kenway, Connor's father, spared Achilles' life but shot him in the knee.

In the last mission of the game, Shay kills Victor Dorian at a party whilst he was searching for his son Arno. In the beginning of "Assassin's Creed:Unity", the player opens as a young Arno at this same party and he discovers that his father was killed.