UO2 was to be set in Sosaria but in an alternate timeline where a failed attempt by Lord British to re-combine the shards of the Gem of Immortality resulted in a cataclysm that collided the past, present and future of Sosaria into a single world, thus bringing Industrial Revolution and steampunk elements to the medieval fantasy world. Players would be able to choose from three playable races: Just a few years later, history repeated itself when EA cancelled Ultima X: Odyssey in 2004.