Ultima™ 9: Ascension

Like Ultima VIII this is no real Ultima game considering the complexity and size of its predecessors. The amount of bugs and the abysmal performance on anything aside from 3dfx cards did not help this game either. But after a lot of patches and a new generation of graphics hardware I was able to play the game. Its a nice open world game. You can go where you want to, but you might get killed if you are not strong enough. The world design is quite nice (e.g. visit Moonglow at night) and sometimes you can see the good old Ultima focus on details. Compared to its predecessors the world is quite empty and the dungeon puzzles are primitive. But it can still be fun to play. Give it a try if you like role playing games and the open world style.

Yeah, there is many bugs, technical problems, some dungeons have very poor level design, some other things are strange, the others Ultima games are maybe better BUT... it´s enjoyable with the quide and manual, the music is very nice and you get some great akcion too and some sidequest. But it is still Ultima whatever u say. Dont forget for a one importatnt thing... when u look out of the window, u ll see the living world in real time there is nothing like a texture of window, no loadings screens.... so the Oblivion games and the newest games are in this are going to FAIL. I love this game even its the wors ultima game maybe but the atmosphere is fantastic .

I have played every game in the series. I quite enjoyed all of them, quit whining that a video game didnt stay consistant!!!!

Not as good as ultima 7 but this game was awesome. Buggy as hell and kind of incomplete but the graphics and immersiveness were so good when it came out, i spent hundreds of hours playing this game, the environments looked so good. If your an ultima fan get it and play it, do not listen to everyone whinging about how bad it is, just enjoy it for what it is, the last ultima game ever.

This is a great game by itself, if you can ignore the funny bugs. I played this game as a kid, it was my 2nd game after Ultima 8: Pagan, and I actually liked the story and the fighting system even if hard at times. Its also kind of an open-world, I remember venturing north to kill the ice dragon for his icy sword. WORTH IT ! I guess expectations were high for people who played Ultima 1-7 and it didn't met it, but I didn't so I did enjoy the game :)