EA Mythic Develops Ultima Online: Kingdom Reborn (Working Title)

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The legendary kingdom of Britannia-and the online world that helped forge PC gaming's fastest growing genre-is about to be reborn. Electronic Arts unveils Ultima Online: Kingdom Reborn (working title), a new upgrade to Ultima Online. Ultima Online: Kingdom Reborn is a complete make-over of the online world with a new graphics engine, a state-of-the-art user interface and enough new content for even the most seasoned players. Additionally, nine years of content and features will be preserved and enhanced with all-new graphics, making Ultima Online: Kingdom Reborn one of the largest and deepest massively multiplayer online role-playing games in existence.

EA's new graphics engine will maintain the game's original perspective while giving it a bold new look that takes advantage of 3D-accelerated special effects. The team is busy re-drawing more than 9.000 pieces of art with which the entire map of Ultima Online - more than 14 million tiles - will be re-built, giving the whole game a vibrant new look. Ultima Online: Kingdom Reborn is also a full-featured expansion pack with a wide array of new content and features that will be announced later this year. The new expansion will include a playable race, and add to or enhance many of the key features of Ultima Online: epic battles versus powerful monsters, deep dangerous dungeons, player-versus-player combat, creative housing design, crafting, and much more.

EA Mythic, formerly Mythic Entertainment, and the Ultima Online team are working together to bring about an ambitious upgrades for the MMORPG game. Created in such a way that current players who choose not to upgrade will be able to play without interruption, Ultima Online: Kingdom Reborn will ship in 2007 for PC.

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