Ultima VII: The Black Gate

by ORIGIN Systems, Inc.

Product Features

• Requires DOS (Windows 95 / 98)
• 3.5 Floppy Disk Version

Product Details

• ASIN: B000BW97HO
• Media: 3.5" disk
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #42,610 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)

Product Description

You are the Avatar, returning to Britannia after 200 years of absence. Strange ritual murders are committed in the land while an organization known as The Fellowship is gathering a huge following. And there is this being known as The Guardian whose mockery follows you on your travels. Your old companions will join you on your quest through Britannia as you slowly discover the secret behind the Fellowship and the Guardian. Travel through a large virtual world with hundreds of NPCs, lots of usable objects and many quests to fulfill.

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4.0 out of 5 stars hard to even rate it four for "quality control" but I did!, July 10, 2009

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Kid Prometheus "The Lad from Hades" (danger zoned) - See all my reviews

= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Ultima VII: The Black Gate (3.5" disk)

fistly, I bought the orignal release of this game the day it came out(1992 or something) so I have every rite to review it and say it's accurate. In fact, I was so exited I bougt it before I even recieved the computer I had ordered, and a chance it would not work on a 386 from "Microlabs". It was not only as good but better than i had expected. The game is elaborate in characters, dialgoue and the virtual world you interact in and at the time, any PC user raved about games like this, it was a craze and only now is it considered "old school" though it attracts many gamers and a DOS box program is based on the motivation of this game alone(though they support nearly all the DOS games now). you play an awsome altar ego, the Avatar, you lead a party and learn from them as much as with them you can become what you train to be via trainers once your XP/level is increased, your compainions likewies, thier are nearly a dozen who (potentally) join you. I found with Dupre at the last, I could aquire up to eight at once, but it isn't a good idea and the combat is terrible with such a group, the AI is optimised for maybe four or five but any amount is difficult to manage. The next issue is combat, i would even give it three stars or less for that if it wern't for such wonderful other stuff. You cannot directly(nor should you) control all characters, only the avatar but more over, the stratigy you can call on for thier tactics, in a word, stinks. Jaana is the worst, she is a potent member when you get killed but that is if she herself isn't killed and it is always the case. Raising her intelligence(and sentri) yields no real management in a cave or dungeon they always get caught in walls until you "cowardly" pull them out. They(and shamino) do indeed have a built in script, one you cannot change, and will dumbly walk into trouble, strip off all thier gear and dump it to the ground and start running like ninnies and not fleeing but into whatever crosses thier path(particularly shamino) it gets annoying and in a forest that hard earned equipment is gone. For good. If you raise one's strength/dex you have the best result(though not a good one) for continued survival early on. Intel only really is good for a party member(other than yourself) out in the open where flanking is possilbe. Iolo is best at utilizing this and the others do not despite thier stats. spark is the best all round with a bit of training. (as in better at all and everything than any other in any given field of study). He is perfect ubber-kid. I am guessing he must be based on R.G.(the creator's) son or something.
It is the best game I ever played I started with Ultima V in 1988 or something, btu this is best of all and SI(U7 seqaul)comes a close second.