Ultima Underworld Series Revived By Creator (July 10, 2014)

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The Ultima franchise's ground breaking first-person 3D spinoff series, Underworld, is back. Original designer Paul Neurath has a new studio that will be developing Underworld Ascension for a new generation of gamers. What makes this stand out is that the new game appears to be more closely associated to the original IP than your typical 'spiritual successor' common today. "For our first title wea??re bringing back the classic Ultimaa?? Underworld franchise, which wea??re calling Underworld Ascensiona??. Our team include some of the folks who created the original franchise. When we made the original we looked to redefine the fantasy RPG genre. With the reboot wea??re going right back to innovating, and our goal is to make the franchise more vital than ever," remarked Neurath. With EA's Mythic studio shuttered, this could hint at a new Electronic Arts approach towards its classic catalog. Could a Wing Commander game made by an independent studio be next?

Welcome to OtherSide Entertainment! Wea??re a brand new game studio focused on rebooting classic game franchises. For our first title wea??re bringing back the classic Ultimaa?? Underworld franchise, which wea??re calling Underworld Ascensiona??. Our team include some of the folks who created the original franchise. When we made the original we looked to redefine the fantasy RPG genre. With the reboot wea??re going right back to innovating, and our goal is to make the franchise more vital than ever.

Chris Roberts, Chairman, Roberts Space Industries: a??Ultima Underworld was truly revolutionary for its time a?? it was the first fully 3D textured first person game. As such it influenced pretty much all first person 3D games that came afterwards and could be truly called the granddaddy of first person Role Playing Games.a??

Richard Garriott, Creative Director, Portalarium: a??For those of us lifelong gamers that go back to the early days the Underworld franchise, created by Paul Neurath, represents a watershed event on what an immersive 3D true role-playing game can be like. In these days, where we are seeing many of these greats return, I personally am as excited about Underworld as any game I can imagine.a??
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Original update published on July 10, 2014
 
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That could be great!
Shadow of Grimrock sort of reinvestigated this genre, bringing it up-to-date with modern graphics and a novel take on turn based combat (real-time, but with an element of turnbasedness to it, hard to explain), so its been proven that it can work very well (even if the giant spiders give me the heebie jeebies, 3d spiders, argh!)
 
Oggy said:
(even if the giant spiders give me the heebie jeebies, 3d spiders, argh!)
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I hated Skyrim for that. I mastered bows early just to keep them out of my face.

Despite my slight arachnophobia, a modern first-person take on the classic canon sounds like a hopeful endeavor. Best of luck to Paul and his team.
 
Wow, I read the title as 'reviewed', this is much more exciting. I hope they bring The Fat Man back.
 
Whistler said:
I hated Skyrim for that. I mastered bows early just to keep them out of my face.

Despite my slight arachnophobia, a modern first-person take on the classic canon sounds like a hopeful endeavor. Best of luck to Paul and his team.
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Oh man, I just picked skyrim up too, noooioo!
 
It's not us, I can confirm that much. (Wish it were! I'd LOVE to work on a big Wing Commander game...)
 
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