Ultima Online (PC)

...was the leader of an Ultima Online freeshard. And so the evil began and instead of learning we started playing Ultima Online. Nearly one year later I was a gamemaster myself on the same freeshard. One more year went by and I was one of the administrators of the Server. I really liked that time, all the people there and of cause the role-play itself, but then I had to do much for school and hadn't the time for the server any longer. However, enough ...
...~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ What's Ultima Online? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Ultima Online is a very old fantasy-role-play and takes place in the middle-ages. When you connect to an Ultima Online Server you'll find a "small" world with its own world card, many computer-controlled monsters and creatures and of course the real players. How you can imagine a role-play, you play a character in Ultima Online with a race and a typical mediaeval profession you can ...

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...I present my review of Ultima Online. =GAME BACKGROUND= Ultima Online was first released in September 1997, by Origin Systems (a sub company of Electronic Arts), and is the first of the genre we now know as the MMORPG (Massively Multiplayer Online Roleplaying Game). In this type of game, you create a character, and then step out into the great unknown of the game world, which can be populated by tens of thousands of other players and NPCs (non-player ...
...you won't find all of Ultima Online's playerbase on the one server. In fact Origin have over 15 servers worldwide, each capable of holding several thousand players. Ultima Online has come a long way since the early days of 1997, however. As other games in the genre have appeared, such as Star Wars Galaxies, and the extremely popular Everquest, Ultima Online has had to expand itself, both in order to compete with it's rivals and also to house the ...

Karnage 30.05.2004 (01.06.2004) · Read full review
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...The world of Ultima Online Renaissance is a totally immersive experience for some, and a totally mind numbingly boring experience for others. Renaissance is the third incarnation of one of the first and largest online, international, real time, role-playing games in the world. It is an experience you will either love and live or try and cry, the graphics are not the best in the world and the sound not the most impressive but they serve their purpose ...
...games, online games such as Ultima Online spawn online communities from all over the world, I personally have an ICQ list of over 200 people from all over the world, who I have met in game and many of whom I talk to on a weekly if not daily basis, we meet up in game to go hunting or take part in one of the many special events that occur on a weekly basis. There are also web sites dedicated to the buying and selling of in game items and services, ...

SandraR 02.10.2001 (30.10.2001) · Read full review
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...installed and signed up for Ultima Online. You have to pay via credit card monthly after your first month which is a free trial period. At that time of course I was unsure whether I would stick with the game, but within a few days I was hooked !!! I have been playing regularly now for 2 years and the game is addictive as ever. So, whats it all about? Its a fantasy roleplaying game set in a world of monsters, dungeons, cities - infact it has everything ...
...I have made friends in Ultima Online from all over the real world globe. The downsides, yes there are some sadly. The main one is that at peak playing times (weekends and early evenings) there are so many players online that the games servers slow down annoyingly. Sometimes its so bad the game is totally unplayable but not often. OSI, the people who run the game have been promising for a while now that the servers will be upgraded to stop this ...

varien 08.04.2001 · Read full review
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My first experience of Ultima Online was when my father got a cover disk on one of his magazines, so I thought that I would give it a go as this cover disk came with a month’s free subscription and I have been playing this game since, its probably been about a year since I started first time but as I was at university I stopped during that time and started again in Jan of this year. Ultima Online is a MMORPG which means Massive Multiplayer Online ...
...about the whole world of Ultima Online; this can be found at www.UO.com. With them the subscription I think is still £10 a month but I can’t be sure at the mo as I can’t find the price on their website. Now if you are a person who thinks that paying every month to play a game then don’t despair as there is a solution, for quite a while now I have been playing on a free shard (shard being the server), now this shard is one of a great many shards, ...

robin_best 15.06.2003 · Read full review
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...bf who introduced me to Ultima Online. He has been playing for a year & has now got me hooked too. Basically, this is a medieval inspired online roleplaying game. You have to first purchase the disc. I got the 2nd age from Game for £1.99. 3rd Dawn is the new, improved (much much better graphics) version & isn't in the shops yet. A certain number of people got to test drive them, so my bf installed this one on my comp for me. I believe they will ...
...Britannia (all based on the Ultima pc games of past) & is quite vast with many towns & sub towns. There are player owned houses & shops & taverns where you can buy/sell wares. You earn money from killing monsters + you pick up potions & scrolls & gems which you can sell. You can also make money if you acquire a skill (ie smithing) as you can make & sell weapons for instance. You can also pick up rare items in game from monsters which you can then ...

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I've been playing Ultima Online for over 3 years now, so its about time I wrote an opinion on it. When Ultima Online first came about, the creator (Richard Gariot) thought perhaps it would last a year, but as a testament to its staying power, UO has just celebrated its 5th anniversary, but enough about its history, what is the game like to play?. It would be impossible to list everything you can do in UO, you can be anything from a mighty mage, ...
...2D client. For me, Ultima Online is the best online role playing game currently on the market, sure its not as pretty its competitors, but its scope and range of features gives it a massive edge over similar games, I've played 3 years and I still haven't done everything you can do in the game, nor seen every bit of the land, I plan on playing this game for many years to come, and happily its creators have big plans for the game, so its not going ...

equinox976 18.11.2002 · Read full review
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Looking at the reviews for Ultima Online (UO), it has been 2 years since anybody has reviewed it. Being an MMO (Massively-Multiplayer Online game), 2 years can change a lot. And change it has, to some extent anyway. I have been playing Ultima Online (legally - this game is subscription based and playing on so-called "Free shards" requires changing the game's files and is fairly questionable) for about 8 years now and I have seen many changes. If ...
...don't like it. You see, Ultima Online is a 2d game, and anyone who is playing it likes it for what it is now (or else they wouldnt be playing it). The players are quite diverse but you will get a lot more player-interaction than in other games. Players run shops, trade with each other and help each other out a lot more in any experiences I have had in other games. Selling items to NPCs (game-controller shopkeepers) is nowhere near as profitable as ...

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......Oh MY!!! What Is Ultima Online? UO is a role playing game that you play online. It is one of a host of ‘MMPORPG’s’. (see below) that are currently available such as 'Everquest', 'The Realm' & 'Asheron's Call'. Ultima Online offers the player the possibility to be part of a ‘Virtual World’ and to create their own unique character & identity within that world. Unlike the role playing games that you play offline such ...
...world. VIRTUAL WORLD Ultima Online is a ‘Virtual World’. This world exists regardless of whether you are playing in it or not. Even when you are not playing it evolves, changes and develops. The world has a name and its called ‘Britannia’. In this world there are cities, shops, houses, boats, rivers, forests and oceans. The world also has a number of NPC’s these are characters that exist within the game but are not ...

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Ultima Online is such a huge game, I can't possibly cover everything in one review. But I'll try. This game has been running for around 11 years now, and is the longest running MMO. It is also pretty much unique as far as the mainstream MMOs go, though some newer games are reverting to a similar 'skill over level' style of play. ==Graphics== I'll start out with the graphics. You actually have three options for the graphics of UO. There are two that ...
...World== The world of Ultima Online is an interesting one. First of all, they explain the reasoning for the different shards (servers) with a creative story about the world of Sosaria being linked to the 'Gem of Immortality' which in the past was shattered, and Sosaria shattered into these 'shards' with it. Within Sosaria itself are 5 'facets' that all differ greatly. These are: Trammel - The most commonly used facet and where new players shall be ...

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...The Second Age. Ultima Online: The Second Age (formerly UO: Gold) is the upgrade to the ever-popular online role-playing game Ultima Online. If you're unfamiliar with the world of Ultima, then here's a brief look at its history. At the end of the very first Ultima game, the evil wizard Mondain was defeated when his Gem of Immortality, within which the lands of Britannia were trapped, was shattered. From this, a series of independent, parallel worlds ...
...more like an add-on to Ultima Online than an upgrade. There are new in-game features sorely lacking in Ultima Online and much better graphics. But at the same time T2A is itself an entire world filled with new towns, new monsters and new, more challenging dungeons that can make even the bravest, most skilled adventurer quake in his platemail leggings. The graphics in T2A greatly improve the feel of the game. Where Ultima Online is filled with forests ...

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I brought this product because to be honest I was bored, I was tired of playing MUDS and wanted something similar, but without so much typing :-). I first started playing in late January 2000. And once I started I was hooked. The game to be honest isn't as graphically advanced as some out there, it is based on isometric views, but don't let that put you off. It is the most complexly deep game there is on the market today in my opinion. By complex ...
...learn to play, quite the opposite, with just a little practice its a very very easy game to play. By complex I mean the options that are available to you as a player, to develop your characters how you want them. Yes you can have multiple characters on a single account, just only play one of them at a time. It would take to long to describe all of the options available to you, so I'll just list a few: First there is the basic hunter.. they boldly ...

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Ultima Online was a whole new concept in Role-Playing Games. Brought to us by Lord British (who brought us Ultimas 1 to 9) Ultima Online set out to create whole fantasy worlds which are accessible on the Internet and affected in every way by the 'players'. It didn't totally succeed, and much of the gameplay was still dictated by the designers - with dungeons and monsters being the biggest focus for most people - which is not to say this is a bad ...
...similarities are present with the Ultima games, and nobody who has played them will take long to feel at home, being set as it is in Britannia, though this is no great advantage. Every aspect of life is covered - you could follow any number of (medieval) trades, buy weapons and armour, train and learn magic, even buy ships and houses! The biggest problem for the game, however, is that it is charged at something like 6 pounds a month - which is very ...

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...be covering the mechanics of Ultima Online (or 'UO') itself. There are myriad other reviews for that purpose here on dooyoo. My plan here is to draw your intention to one particular facet of the reknowned Ultima Online multiverse - a 'free shard' known as Obsidian. For those of you who are unaware, Ultima Online is often considered the first, and perhaps the greatest and most original of MMORPGs (Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games) ...
...and leads on from the Ultima series of games many of you will have heard of. Despite being released on September 30th, 1997, Ultima Online and its expansions has continued to evolve and is still ran commercially by its creator, Origin. However, there exists many 'free shards' which are often running different versions of the game, serving as snapshots in time as the game progressed - with differing features and styles of gameplay. A free shard ...

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Ultima-Online is an online fantasy roleplaying game set in a world of monsters, demons and all things that are evil in a HUGE multiplayer world know as Britannia. When you first start out in game you can customise you characters hair colour and starting out cloths colour along with facial hair. You can select what skills you wish to start out with there are 40 in total, some of the skills include Magery, Carpentry, Arching amongst other things. Once ...
...you then select where in the world you wish to start out, which city and inn. From here you can gain money and skill in many ways, either by killing monsters and looting them for gold and other goodies if you are a warrior, mage or archer. Or you wish to have a quiet job in town making armour and selling it on as a Blacksmith. The game also allows you to buy and place your own house or boat when you have enough gold allowing you to safely place your ...

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