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Produced by: The Retelling
Website: The Retelling
Getting Connected:
* Connection Guide: How to join The Retelling

Currently in an “open alpha” release state, Retelling: Exodus is a remake of Ultima 3 using Ultima Online. It features PvP and PvM according to Ultima Online’s Felucca ruleset, and role-playing is (of course) strongly encouraged. The map of Sosaria is entirely custom, and seems to be a very expert re-creation of Ultima 3′s game world. Pirates roam the seas, slimes split into more slimes, swamps poison you…many of the finer trappings of Ultima games are present. Siege warfare and player-created cities are also enabled, and houses (though secure) can be robbed under certain conditions.

I can’t find out much about The Retelling’s creator, but he describes himself in this way:

I grew up playing the original Ultima series, I have a lot of fond memories of time spent in Britannia. I also remember the theme of interactivity, a believable, consistent world (for the most part=) with a touch of humor. I’m looking to recapture the same feeling in an MMO.

To join The Retelling, follow the directions in this forum thread (also linked above).

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Produced by: Team Iris
Website: Iris2
Releases:
Iris (Discontinued)
* Development Repository

Iris2 (Iris-Ogre)
* Iris2 Installer (Windows)
* Iris2 Binary (Windows)
* Iris2 (SUSE) (RPM)
* Iris2 Latest Source Code

Also required (for Windows)
* Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 Redist. (x86)
* DirectX9 End-User Runtimes

Ultima: Iris is a 3D game client for Ultima Online, which gives the game a more modern feel in keeping with the evolution of 3D MMORPGs while still retaining the Ultima “feel” of UO (such as it is). Iris is only compatible with a number of different “freeshard” server types. See the project website (actually a wiki) for full details.

Iris requires a legal copy of Ultima Online, preferably one of the later-edition versions of the game, but it serves to note that trial versions of UO can be used for play on freeshards without suffering limitations. Trial versions of the game can be obtained from the links given on the Iris2 forums.

[image:104:l:s=0:l=x]Produced by: Darkheart Dragon, Avatus Kingsman (formerly), and many others
Website: Ultima Legacy
Releases:
* Custom Data Files (516.2 KiB, 323 hits)

Ultima Legacy was a modified version of Ultima Online which could be played for free, set in a post-Ultima 8 Britannia. Its premise includes the assumption that Ultima 9: Ascension did not happen, and out of that it has spawned a complex and involved storyline that included the Atarkan invasion of Britannia. Legacy doesn’t exactly form the backstory for the Titans of Ether project entitled Ultima IX: Redemption, although there is a relation there as both projects were founded, in part, by Avatus Kingsman (although where he has gone to, none now know).

Joining Legacy was a bit of an involved process — the modified data files that were necessary for game play are provided here for download, but there was more to it than just that. For starters, you needed to own a copy of Ultima Online: The Second Age, and it was actually recommended that you have Ultima Online: Renaissance instead. Ultima Online: Lord Blackthorn’s Revenge may also have worked.

The rest of the joining process was explained at the Legacy website. However, as of 2008, Legacy was being revised to tell a Serpent Isle-based tale, and was also switching from the Sphere freeshard system to RunUO. The project website is now little more than a placeholder page.