The original team of 1992' Ultima Underworld started a Kickstarter campaign to continue the legacy with Underworld Ascendant. Otherside Entertainment, led by Paul Neurath, is thrilled to bring back Underworld, and pushing the creative envelope in collaboration with their fans.
"Backing the game grants you unprecedented front row access to the creation of the next epoch of this storied masterpiece." Paul wrote and then added what they can build with your help:
- Exquisitely Realized Underworld – Plunge into The Stygian Abyss: dark, ripe with dangers, full of ancient secrets to discovering. A vast subterranean fantasy world made startlingly real and alive.
- Dynamic Factions – Become embroiled in an epic plot, as rival factions vie for dominance in struggles that ebb and flow across The Stygian Abyss. Your choices will alter the outcome in subtle and dramatic ways.
- Improvisation Engine – Delight in player-authored gameplay taken to a whole new level, with a suite of technologies that empower you to solve challenges with astonishing ingenuity. Be the ‘MacGyver’ of a fantasy world.
- Hero to Call Your Own – Jump right in as a Fighter, Thief or Mage. Then as your Avatar grows, freely mix and match any skills to develop a unique hero, tailored to your style of play.
- Pushing Boundaries – Stretch Goals will innovate on co-op play with a friend; letting you build your own corner of The Stygian Abyss; and more.
Underworld Ascendant is a next-generation sequel to the legendary fantasy RPG’s Ultima Underworld & Ultima Underworld 2, and it will modernize the series’ visuals and user interface to take full advantage of the today’s powerful PC’s, as stated in Kickstarter. You will be able to Plunder ancient temples, navigate subterranean rivers, alter the environment to your advantage, and you will have the freedom of choice like in good old Deus Ex or Elder Scrolls games thanks to Improvisation Engine, which gives you an array of tools to think up your own ingenious solutions to challenges.
Underworld Ascendant' base goal is $600000, but there are some good stretch goals along the way such are new areas, monsters, races, enchanted dynamic music & SFX, Underworld toolkit builder, CO-OP multiplayer and much other worthy of funding. In the time of making this article, the studio raised almost $90000, and I'm pretty sure it will hit its base goal and then some more. Check the Underworld Ascendant Kickstarter campaign and see it for yourself, we did only some very basic information here.
We are pleased with the possibility to see this RPG legacy arise in our modern times, and what about you? Share us some thoughts about this Kickstarter campaign.
Underworld Ascendant' base goal is $600000, but there are some good stretch goals along the way such are new areas, monsters, races, enchanted dynamic music & SFX, Underworld toolkit builder, CO-OP multiplayer and much other worthy of funding. In the time of making this article, the studio raised almost $90000, and I'm pretty sure it will hit its base goal and then some more. Check the Underworld Ascendant Kickstarter campaign and see it for yourself, we did only some very basic information here.
We are pleased with the possibility to see this RPG legacy arise in our modern times, and what about you? Share us some thoughts about this Kickstarter campaign.