Ultima™ 9: Ascension

Expanding Britannia into 3D was an excellent move. There is plenty to explore and discover. As mentioned previously, your character's strength can be a major factor in determining what you can safely explore. When I played this in 1999, there were some annoying technical issues, generally in the form of game crashes. Hopefully GOG has fixed these problems and this is a fully functional copy. If you're a "hardcore" Ultima fan, the story and moronic Avatar may bother you. Apart from these considerations which cause elitist rantings against Electronic Arts and Ultima canon, neither of which are a logical basis for arguing against Ultima IX as a game, it was a pioneer title in open-world exploration. Hell, they even gave the Avatar a ship at some point and allowed free-roaming (though, of course it was very buggy). Considered on its merits as a game, Ultima canon and EA aside, it's a decent open-world title. Again, hopefully GOG has fixed it up to resolve the major technical issues.

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Gentlemen and ladies, let us not trash Ultima 9 too harshly. Yes, it is an awful, awful game. But it deserves a five star rating in the following ways: 1) On technical terms, it was amazing, even despite the buggy initial release. The graphics were fantastic for 1999. The level of interaction with the world was inferior to U7 or UW2, but still better than Diablo and other action-"RPGs". The interface and controls were superb. In fact, the whole journal idea (which first appeared in earlier Ultimas but was done best in this game), with the game explicitly tracking your progress through quests, has since been used in almost every MMO including WoW. Oh, and it's the first RPG to have full voice acting. 2) It is possible to enjoy this game ironically, and count all the awful plot holes that develop when you talk to even minor characters. Let's not mince words: the writing is atrocious, and in some places it does reach so-bad-it's-good territory (unintentionally). 3) It's probably the easiest Ultima game to play. 4) It inspired one of the biggest Ultima fans to do a massive series-wide video retrospective, culminating in a three part apocalyptic trilogy of reviews. This is no ordinary bad game. It is the ultimate bad game. You may think you've played some bad games in the past, but have you ever played a game that was bad enough to make you want to destroy the world? http://spoonyexperiment.com/category/game-reviews/ultima-retrospective/

Basically one of the worst games every made. Espically If you played any of the previous ultima games as it betrays almost every single important aspect of those games. Want to know just how bad this piece of grabge really is: http://spoonyexperiment.com/2012/08/11/ultima-9-ascension-finale-uncut/