Restored: “Ultima Online 2” Pitch Video/Demo Reel (2004)
After a decade’s delay, the pitch video for the final game proposed to EA by Origin Systems is again available to watch.
After a decade’s delay, the pitch video for the final game proposed to EA by Origin Systems is again available to watch.
“Outward” – is it everything “Shroud of the Avatar” should have been? And can we all agree that “Commander Keen” was great?
In which we discuss Shroud of the Avatar’s impending launch, and also hear (just a bit) how the game’s launch party went.
In which we explore headcanon, what-if scenarios about Sosarian and Britannia history, and even where some Ultima games themselves took canon in a different direction.
Denis Loubet teases us with a piece of concept art for an isometric, tile-based Ultima…possibly the earliest version of Ultima 9.
In which SSSH discusses the attention and detail that were put into the manuals and reference books that accompanied the Ultima games.
Scans of a lengthy technical design document produced for what was probably the last attempt at creating Ultima Online 2.
A style guide produced for the production team of UO Next, a cancelled attempt to re-tool, clean up, and streamline Ultima Online.
Pix has posted a few photos of what is purportedly a t-shirt made for the Ultima Online 2 development team.