According to recent reports and rumors, Assassin's Creed Red will be eschewing the franchise's typical modern-day approach and instead taking players into the future, sometime between the years 2090 and 2099. What's more, it's believed the events of this segment will fling the franchise even further into the future, with cut content from Assassin's Creed Mirage seeing animus operators refer to the 21st century as ancient history and the time of the Great Shift.