I spotted this article on Ultima Online 2 in the June 2000 PC Gamer when I was scanning in the top 100 earlier in the week. It’s quite an in depth look at an early version of the game shortly after Richard Garriott’s departure from Origin. The game looked promising but like near enough everything else Origin did in it’s dying years ended up being cancelled. The project lasted roughly another year after this article with UO2 allegedly being canned mainly because of the continued success of UO1 and EA not wanting to detract from their existing cash cow.