Ultima Online is a massive online role-playing adventure in which players interact with other players and complete quests and adventures while building up their character. Features include a continuous, ever-changing game world, complete with day and night, a persistent world in which players build cities, run taverns, and wage wars, an immense, evolving environment with over a dozen cities and vast dungeons spanning over 200 million square feet of 3D terrain.
When I started this column, I knew it was only a matter of time before I looked up Ultima Online, the world's first mainstream MMO. Though I've only been peripherally aware of it at best, it started in 1997, and it's still around. Over the following 14 years, the game underwent a lot of tweaks; at some point, a band of fans lashed out against all the changes, and launched their own free server (called In Por Ylem) in an effort to wind the clock black to UO's earliest incarnations. Sounds to me like a place for the hardest of the hardcore. What an exciting opportunity to jump in and see what's going on, right? Read More »
Release Region: United States
Release Date: December 18, 1997
Publisher: Electronic Arts
Release Region: United Kingdom
Release Date: March 5, 1998
Publisher: Electronic Arts
Release Region: Japan
Release Date: March 5, 1998
Publisher: Electronic Arts
Release Region: Australia
Release Date: Released
Publisher: Electronic Arts
Release Region: United States
Release Date: December 18, 1997
Publisher: Electronic Arts
Release Region: United States
Release Date: December 18, 1997
Publisher: Electronic Arts
Release Region: Japan
Release Date: March 5, 1998
Publisher: Electronic Arts
Release Region: United States
Release Date: December 18, 1997
Publisher: Electronic Arts
Release Region: United States
Release Date: December 18, 1997
Publisher: Mythic Entertainment
Release Region: United States
Release Date: December 18, 1997
Publisher: Electronic Arts
Expansion packs related to this game:
Ultima Online: Kingdom Reborn (PC)
Ultima Online: Mondain's Legacy (PC)
Ultima Online: Stygian Abyss (PC)