On Wednesday we reported on the announcement of a newly revealed sci-fi MMO titled Otherland. Based on the novels of the same name by author Tad Williams, the Unreal Engine 3 based game is a big budget and highly ambitious title for German publisher DTP Entertainment. Now the publisher has issued the first screenshots of the game, showing off the unusual art style of Otherland's near-future world along with one of its "virtual" worlds Mars.

A few previews of the game have also popped up on some web sites including Eurogamer which seems to describe a highly complex game involving your players interacting in a virtual world with a central hub that gives access to a number of other virtual worlds (only Mars was shown in the screenshots and preview). The game is admittedly a long way off (its release date is sometime in 2010 and is currently only 15 percent complete, according to the Eurogamer article) so it remains to be seen if Otherland can truly come close to its developer's design plans.