I used to read all the Ultima Underworld walkthroughs around, a long time before actually playing the game, not to help me through it, because when I did, I had probably forgotten them all, but just because the world there looked so choerent, a very good narrative world.
I was pointed to an article about the original UU just few days ago, and I was amazed about how much the things described there were stuff that you could actually see back in the day already was making this game different from the rest...
http://press.etc.cmu.edu/content/ult...d-corvus-elrod
About Aeon, interface has more sense than it seems, later on; fullscreen automap is ingame already; small automap was important to Florian and I would not hav considered anything BUT real time combat
