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1997

Ultima Online

Tonight at a glance

Platforms
PC
Mode
Massively Multiplayer Online (MMO)
Age rating
ESRB M
Violence
Strong
Frights
None

Why tonight?

  • It goes hard on violence — not a wind-down.

The story

Ultima Online is the product of Richard Garriott's idea for a fantasy game involving several thousand people who can all play in a shared fantasy world. It is responsible for grandfathering the genre of the MMO, and showing the industry that MMO's were the next era of gaming.

  • Action
  • Fantasy
  • Business
  • Sandbox
  • Open world
  • orcs
  • medieval
  • magic
  • grinding
  • 2d

The look

A few frames, chosen rather than collected.

Production

Players
96 / 100 · 49 players
Critics
67 / 100 · 1 critic
Developer
Origin Systems
Publisher
Electronic Arts