Ultima Online Expansion Goes All... Samurai?

Thanks to Yahoo for reprinting an EA press release announcing the Ultima Online: Samurai Empire add-on, a "new expansion pack" for the long-running PC MMO title. According to the release: "Traveling around a mysterious Asian environment filled with exotic beasts, expansive dungeons and scenic housing areas, players can strive to become a fierce Samurai, dedicated to the art of Bushido and focused on learning new physical combat abilities.... Players also have the choice of joining the elite ranks of the Ninja, where they will concentrate on magical combat and stealth." UO Stratics has both concept art and screenshots from the newly-announced expansion, quite a thematic departure from "the European high fantasy" of the original title, and "scheduled to ship November 2004." We recently covered both Ultima Online's 7th anniversary and the cancellation of Ultima X: Odyssey.

Turning Japanese

[Ohreally_factor]

This shouldn't be a foreign concept to the /. crowd.

Alternatives

[PD]

It was either go samurai, or go commando. I think they made a wise decision.

Ms Cleo Here...

[Anonymous Coward]

scheduled to ship November 2004

Which really means, it's scheduled to be cancelled by September 2004 since it's MMO releated.