Ultima™ 7 The Complete Edition

This game started out good. I thought the game had decent graphics. Nice day and night effects. Even had more of an "cheery" RPG feeling than Ultima 8. However after completing the first town and exploring "Britain". (Interestingly the name of the second town) I had no idea what to do. While the first town seemed to have borders or "walls". The next series of towns including Britain are conjunctioned by wagon trails. Wagon Trails? It might be a small gripe but after this you seem to have no additional quests. The map you are given has no bearings. No GPS type pointer, etc. That is fine but if you are going to do that at least make it somewhat like the pathways in Ultima 8. All in all small gripes. However when I play a series of RPG's as renowned as Ultima I expect a little more refinement.

This game sucks. How do you even play it? The manuals are all just in-game lore, there's no instructions on how to interact with the world or do anything. Where even is the menu so you can save and exit the game. This blows. Wasted six bucks.

I loved Ultima 4 as a kid, and decided to try the others more recently. Now I'm glad I didn't try them before. The game creator decided he was just too good in Ultima 4 and he would compensate by being anti-moral. Ultima 7 is filled from the beginning with propoganda, such as class struggle, feminism, and environmentalism, all in fantasy land. They might as well chop off Lord British's head in a Jacobin revolution.

Objective Review Playtime around 2 hours. 6 of 5 must play. 5 of 5 great story great gameplay. 4 of 5 great story average gameplay. 3 of 5 average story average gameplay. 2 of 5 play only if it's your favorite genre. 1 of 5 play if you have nothing better to do. 0 of 5 play if you're a masochist. -1 of 5 avoid. Ultima VII the Complete Edition score is 2 of 5. Subjective Review The story in the complete Ultima VII game is second to none. I started playing it and was immediately captivated. Impossible not to be the way it begins. Plus you get all the add-ons so it's one complete adventure! But as I played I was eventually dismayed. The slanted top down graphics, and the choppy movement of your characters; the way they run after "baddies" only to meet their quick demise. I just gave up. Walking in grass and low bushes that your character and party melts into while you choppily move along. I couldn't even find my party after a fight because I couldn't tell the difference between them and the flora at times. It's a shame Mr. Garriott. Why you don't revisit these games and bring them up to date graphically/movement/mechanics so today's gamers could enjoy the story that unwinds perplexes me. There is so much that is good in these games story-wise. But other than that...nada. Look... I know there's a LOT of old gamers on GOG, I mean after all, that's mainly what GOG is all about. But I'm not going to give a game a stellar score just because it tugs at the ol' nostalgia strings. I'll be at the head of the line to give the Ultima series its due credit, for revolutionizing the RPG industry in its day. But man oh man. The graphics, especially in Ultima VII, sort of slanted isometric characters against a flat back ground. Ugh! Character movement that jerks along like they run out of breath every second step. Ugh again!