Trailers

Several Trailers were made for Ultima IX in 1998 by Origin during the advertisement capaign. These trailers nowadays are of great worth, as they often contain cutscenes that were removed from the final game. Four official trailers were made, and one special mention has to be made.

Heavy Metal Trailer
At some point in early 1998, Electronic Arts put a teaser preview of Ultima IX in their publicly accessible FTP site. I vanished only days later. The reason is unclear but speculation goes that the completely unfitting heavy metal music is the reason.

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The Heavy Metal Trailer.

July Trailer
Another Ultima IX trailer that was released on July 98 on the official Origin website. It does show different cinematics from the previous one and had a more fitting music. In it, Lord British laments that Britannia has fallen into darkness and that the Avatar has to return to save the land.

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The July trailer.

Promo Trailer
This is probably the best-known trailer, as it was shipped together with the Ultima Collection. It sports very gripping music and yet another set of cinematics, which interestingly enough help together with the two previous trailers, to mostly puzzle together the Pyros scene.

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The Promo Trailer.

Xmas Trailer
This trailer was at first only accessable to Origin employees. Besides the last important part of the Pyros cinematic and some other stuff, it shows interesting pictures how the monster models were created.

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The Xmas trailer.

Third Age Intro
This one is interesting, lots of scenes that were cut from Ultima IX were recycles for the into of Ultima Online: Third Dawn. The intro sports a whole nightmare sequence of Lord British, mixed in with Ultima Online stuff and replaced audion.

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The Third Dawn Intro.