Ultima X: Odyssey

On Aug 21st EA Games unveiled their newest entry into the MMORPG market, Ultima X: Odyssey. The announcement of UXO was made at an event at the Yerba Buena Center for the Performing Arts in the heart of San Francisco.

With all the flash of a Hollywood movie premier, the proud UXO Dev Team at Origin showed off the game that they had labored on in secret for 18 months. World press, Internet fan sites, and select player guilds were invited to attend.

Ultima X: Odyssey - Karma Storm (08-25-03)

While GameRifts was not invited, our sister guild site "The Shadow Alliance," had selected members invited. The Shadow Alliance, a long standing MMO based guild which traces it's founding back to 1992 in the original NeverWinter Nights hosted on America Online was pleased to accept the invitation to this first view of UXO. Our ability to be able to field 100 experienced testers and work on special projects with a dev team, as we did in "Shadowbane" most recently, may have played a roll in the invitation (Thanks Div and GameRifts, you guys are always working!).

Participants in the EA-X event, as the organizers called it, were flown to San Francisco and put up in the W hotel in the heart of the city. Picture dim colored hallway lighting, a staff all dressed in black, haughty bellboys with phony Euro trash accents, high-tech toys in the room with a view of the Golden Gate Bridge and you will realize that Electronic Arts was sparing no expense to make this unveiling special.

Head on over to gamerifts.com to get the full article.

Ingame video can be found at the UXO home site.