Ultima Online

Ultima Online

Released: September 24, 1997
Type: Main Game

Platforms:

PC (Microsoft Windows)

Genres:

Role-playing (RPG)

Game Modes:

Massively Multiplayer Online (MMO)

Themes:

Action Fantasy Business Sandbox Open world

Player Perspectives:

Bird view / Isometric

Ratings

User Rating

95.9
Based on 43 ratings

Critics Rating

67.0
Based on 1 ratings

Total Rating

81.4
Based on 44 ratings

Summary

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 MMO, and showing the industry that MMO's were the next era of gaming.

Storyline

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 his courage were without peer. In this stranger, lied Sosaria's only hope; Only a traveler from the stars could release this world from Mondain's vile stranglehold. He would prove himself a savior; shattering the Gem of Immortality, and defeating Mondain. But... A deeper and more sinister evil was released with the destruction of the Gem; For Sosaria was not free of the stone's power. The planet was still bound to the Jewel's magic, even as it laid shattered on the floor of Mondain's Castle. For within each shattered remnant of the jewel, dwelled a perfect likeness of Sosaria... Thus is the world in which you are born, live, and die. Britannia, that was once Sosaria, now exists as a thousand worlds; each with it's own peoples, history and destiny. This Britannia is but one of many, in the multiverse that is: Ultima Online.

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Involved Companies

Electronic Arts

Role:
Publisher

Origin Systems

Role:
Developer

Keywords

orcs medieval magic grinding 2d guild summoning support fairy undead online snow mining day/night cycle horse riding ogres necromancy spider pre-release public testing customizable characters leveling up bink video human bow and arrow loot gathering goblins non-player character minotaurs escort mission character creation alligator potion player vs player player vs environment melee stat tracking developer cameo elementals never-ending fetch quests mana griefing camping paladins barbarians persistent world graphics overhaul pay-to-play power leveling e3 1997 interactive achievement awards 1998

Alternative Names

UO

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