Ultima™ 7 The Complete Edition

I still remember the insane amount of hours spent on this is game. Which, in fact, it's not a game: it's a whole world to live and explore. The most complete and entertaining videoludic experience you will ever get. If you enjoy playing RPGs, this is what you must purchase. Mandatory. No more, no less.

Ultima 7, and especially Serpent Isle, immerse you in a huge, amazingly detailed world of characters, monsters, cultures and stories that have the potential to engage you for years. There's so much to these games it's really amazing they were ever completed. Just as one example, the religion of the long extinct serpent worshippers that you discover as you explore Serpent Isle through ruins, scrolls, the half-baked stories of the current occupants, dreams, visions etc is remarkably well developed and though out, and that's just as a background to the people who actually inhabit it now. I spent so much time getting to know all the characters, completing quests, exploring dungeons, trying out different weapons and spells, accumulating treasure, discovering the secrets of the serpent gates, listening to the music on the jukebox... etc etc etc!! Inevitably there are flaws (such as the system used for storing your items and the fact that if you lose something vital it's probably gone forever and you better hope you have a save point you can restart from) but if you are someone who enjoys role playing games, or someone who appreciates a decent story, this is a no-brainer. Seriously the amount of value you will get for under $10 is crazy. It's just a shame that Ultima 8 and in particular 9 did not live up to the standard this game set. Someday I will get round to working my way backwards and trying out Ultima 6 though...

I know the game is old, but holy donkeys that font is atrocious. It's insanely hard to read the in-game text. I've played plenty of games from the VGA era and all had legible text. Maybe it gets better, but I can't take the eye strain.

When this first came out in the early 90s, I was instantly hooked on the immersive world and simply in awe on how every object had its own properties. You can interact with just about everything. Simply amazing and I can't wait to relive the glory days of a fantastic game.

Definitely one of the crowning achievements of games to date. 6 stars. So worth it.. Played through it twice... Will do so again. Had to right review solely to state how they can get something so magnificent into 22 mb absolutely blows my mind... Way I see it, 4 hours of rpg greatness per megabyte. Now that is coding genius!