Original Serpent Isle introduction

The Intro of Ultima VII/2 originally was quite a bit different. It was created as a rendered movie, something unusual at the time. However, it turned out the the eight megabytes needed for this intro (ridiculous little data by todays standards) were far too much for a game sold on floppy disks. So they had to alter the intro to save space.

The differences are mainly two:
 * Instead of the plain dark blue sky, the sky over Castle Britannia originally was overcast and it was raining. Only the lightning remained in the shipped game.
 * The whole last third of the intro with the Avatar's ship approaching the Serpent Pillars was totally different. It was much more animated and the pillars rose from the sea. Many perspectives were different.

Denis Loubet made the original animation available in 1998. The complete intro can be seen below.

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LS1E7WWtg2g The Full Serpent Isle Intro.