Ultima Online

"For MP game wasnt too good here's why..."

UO is a classic massive multiplayer game to be played on one giant sever of your choice. When playing UO you can be playing with hundreds of players at once. Although this game is not the only game of it's kind...

GAMEPLAY <6>
Addicting in it's nature UO pulls you into it's own world for you to do one thing become more powerful by becoming stronger and owning more money. One major prob is the fighting is downright horrible. First of all u just set yourself in battle mode and watch helplessly as your character constantly misses. Second even for an autobattle mode the battles are relatively slow and your character swings very slow. Enough with the fighting another mistake this game made was it's world. When in the world of UO you can run and explore much territory and find nothing. As you explore you dont find strange magical pools, intense legendary enemies or monsters, or any other neat special things. What u will run into most of the time is forest animals, an occasional monster, and tons of houses to get in your way. In UO the dungeons are relatively small and once again exploring is a bore. Another thing which cripples the game is it's weaponry and armory. You can easily buy almost any weapon imediately in the game. Most weapons look like crap. Oh you can sometimes find special magic weapons but they dont look any different and just have one strange lil stat difference. And you bore you even more the only race you can be is a human.

On The Plus Side..... The game has a neat way to customizing your character. Everyone starts off relatively similar but you can litterally mold your character any way you want creating many different classes. You also have many ways to change your apperance. The towns are cool in a sense because they look like real medieval time towns. To top that all off the skills you can have are many and fun to advance in.

GRAPHIX <6>
Not getting much a plus here... I have heard there is a new 3D graphics type UO but this is not judging that just the norm. The graphics are fairly ok. It's just a basic 2D graphix pallet with no interesting art styles. You can the monsters look ok nothing special.

SOUND <7> The sound is decent for the feeling that the game is trying to portray. The game has a lot of cool toons you will hear that will fade in and out. most of the songs will have a renessaince/medieval feel to them setting the atmosphere pretty well.

FINAL NOTE: The game is an allright Online Game. It mightbe interesting to try. But let me tell you dont get rapped up in just this game thinking it's the best online game ever because there are tons more out there much better than UO. Thanks for reading check out my other reviews.

FINAL SCORE: 6 (6.2857 rounded down)
My score is created by taking Game Play timesing it by 4, taking sound timesing it by 2, and adding graphics to it, then dividing by 7. <There are sometimes other catagories but none others were in this review>

Reviewer's Score: 6/10, Originally Posted: 08/31/03