Ultima Online
Ultima Online is the product of Richard Garriott's idea for a fantasy game involving several thousand people who can all play in a shared fantasy world. It is responsible for grandfathering the genre of the…
Ultima Online is a role-playing (rpg) developed by Origin Systems, released 24 September 1997 on PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Ultima Online is
Ultima Online is a role-playing (rpg) game developed by Origin Systems and released in 1997. It was published by Electronic Arts. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
During the earliest span of the age of darkness; found in the writings of only the most aged of manuscripts, lived a world born of mystic arts and ancient sorcery: Sosaria. Despite Sosaria's enchanted origins, it's people shunned magic, for it's very use corrupted the souls of the unwary. But one man dared to awake the slumbering powers of Alchemy. Twisting the awesome power of the Gem of Immortality to his will, and binding all of Sosaria to his corruption: Mondain the Wizard. His power was absolute, as the whole of the planet was gripped in his cruel embrace. Only the appearance of a stranger saved Sosaria from impending destruction. From whence he came, no one knows; but his strength and…
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action, business, fantasy and open world.
Where it sits in the Ultima series
Ultima Online is the 37th of 45 entries we hold in the Ultima series. It arrived 6 months after Ultima Underworld: The Stygian Abyss. The next entry was Akalabeth: World of Doom in 1998.
How it was received
Ultima Online holds a critic score of 67 out of 100. That places it above 26% of the 3,811 rated role-playing (rpg) games in our database, which average 73. Games released in 1997 averaged 65, so it scored 2 points above the year average. Players rate it 81, 14 points higher than critics did — a gap worth knowing about before you buy.
What it launched against
Ultima Online launched on 24 September 1997, within three weeks of Final Fantasy VII, Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee, Resident Evil: Director's Cut and Frogger. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Final Fantasy VII, Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee, Resident Evil: Director's Cut, Frogger.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Ultima Online yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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