Is an Ultima Underworld 3 planned?
Here an excerpt from an interview with Richard Garriott: “Interesting that you ask, these days Warren Spector, the producer of the Underworld series, is putting a team together at Origin, which is intended to work on that project. Underworld III is not officially planned, but we’re collecting people.” [Source: interview with Richard Garriott in October 1996’s PC Gamer] However, subsequent to that, Warren Spector left Origin, Richard Garriott left Origin to form his own online games firm and, as mentioned in section 4.3 of this FAQ, OSI has ceased to exist. Add the fact that Looking Glass (the folks who actually created the Underworlds) have gone out of business, and it seems very unlikely there is any prospect of a new Underworld game. The spiritual successor to the UW games in many people’s eyes is Arx Fatalis, which has made a favourable impression with many Ultima fans.
