Ultima Underworld vs Doom

[drcode]

There's a pretty good article on Salon that talks about how computer games might be different if Doom hadn't come along when it did, and how gaming history has ignored Ultima Underworld. It's at:
http://salon.com/tech/feature/2003/05/0 ... ex_np.html

Just click the "Free Day Pass" at the bottom of the page.

[mreyre]

I saw that article yesterday - thought it was quite good.

[wjp]

Vividos mentioned one of the screenshots of UW1 in that article is apparently taken from uwadv

[Dominus]

yes, that article is quite nice.
For anyone wondering what wjp meant:
Uwadv: http://uwadv.sourceforge.net/