Assassin's Creed 4 could go further back in time  by Steve
Watts, Mar 21, 2012 2:45pm PDT  The Assassin's Creed series has
followed a fairly familiar pattern of jumping forward a few
hundred years with each numbered installment. Now that
Assassin's Creed 3 is hitting the American Revolution, that
pattern leaves a relatively short window before we hit modern
day. Ubisoft assures, though, that future games may go back in
time to earlier points in history.  "It's a question we've been
getting a lot," producer Francois Pelland told Metro (via OXM).
"It's not a moving forward thing, it's all based on lineage and
on DNA and therefore it has nothing to do with time. The next
game could easily go backwards as much as forward, no problem."
Assassin's Creed 3 promises to be the end of Desmond's story, so
the next numbered game in the series could introduce a new
"modern day" protagonist. Or, Desmond could simply have
ancestors from other time periods that weren't relevant to the
overall plot before. Given how varied t