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If you want to feel like your workday never ends buy this

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 10 / 20
Date: May 24, 2000
Author: Amazon User

UO, in any of its online forms, is not an Role-Playing experience...it's a second job. People new to this game may get the idea that it is a seamless multiplayer environment producing adventure, fun, and numerous interactions with other players--nothing could be further from the truth. The new player will likely see this "game" as a second job. One in which they log onto from 10 to 40 hours a week, to make clothes, bake bread, and build chairs. Then they take the proceeds buy equipment and adventure for one hour. Whereupon they usually lag on the system, their characters freezing. Only to be finally hacked apart by a pig or a cow. For this wonderful exercise, they get to pay the creators of UO a monthly service charge. Don't make the investment. Don't play this game

Hmmm... A little Overated?

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 8
Date: November 14, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I really dont like to admitt it, but I've bought this game a while back ago.

When I started playing with it, the large selection of occupation and skills were pretty impressive. When I started the game, people kept bothering me with the prize you get when you meet other players. Which was really annoying to me.

Walking around aimlessly around town and getting killed isnt fun at all! Once you die, thats it! You become an spectre, a ghost that wanders around. You get revived from a temple and start playing again. Wow! Isn't that the most fun anyone can have. Starting out in that game is not fun at all. Talk about lag, the game play was soooo choppy it wasnt even funny. Top-view is all right, for a game like Fallout or Command and Conquer. Even Heroes of Might and Magic was more imppressive than this.

Bottom of the Line - This game can be really fun if you know what you are doing, if you are a big fan of Baulders Gate, Ice Wind Dale, this would really excite you quite well.

Renaissance ruined the game

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 7
Date: July 03, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Ultima Online Renaissance ruined the original games potential to be a very good multiplayer game. Its no longer worth the time or money to play.

DO NOT BUY THIS

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 6
Date: November 22, 2001
Author: Amazon User

You have to pay a monthly fee and the graphics are pathetic.
There is no decent help screens. There are lags in the time to perform actions. I played Ultima IV years ago on a apple IIc and it was better then this version.

Ultima Online yet another faliure

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 8
Date: October 18, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Oh my god i can't even begin to talk about how boring this game is. All you do is walk around a baddly made and animated world, killing stupid creatures. Don't be deluded by the low price either, as a matter of fact the creators of the game will acctually leach money out of your banck account, about [$$] every month amounting to a stunning [$$$] a year. I'm sorry but WHO in thier right mind would pay that much for this, AND IT NOT EVEN WORTH IT. You go around getting whiped by super players that play WAY too much. but the wierd thing is even when u manage to struggle up to the top with these super players u get really BORD cos u can beat every thing. And i mean who finds accumulating virtual money, FUN and braging about it afterwards to your friend NOT ME. I would say more bad things but i won't but keep all i said in mind. :)

Outdated

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: January 27, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Outdated graphics, 4+ years and still buggy, overcrowded and lag filled servers. UO was good for its time, but its time has long passed, it belongs in the bargin bin at your local K-Mart. 4+ years of development and still the most bug filled online game out there, I would give this one a miss and try Everquest, or Dark Ages.

AWFULL AND BORING!!!!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 11
Date: February 03, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This game is an insult to all PC games. There are no quests and no point to it at all. Plus u need to pay a server ounce u get it. (if your lucky you might find a free server.) Basicilly if you want a cool fantasy game with knights and magic go get Diablo2 because you'll enjoy it much much more!!!!

IT IS TERRIBLE

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 18
Date: February 22, 2002
Author: Amazon User

THE LAGGIEST GAME I EVER PLAYED no BODY BUY THIS IT IS A MISTAKE ... AND U GET ADDICTED TO IT! I WILL NEVER BUY A ANOTHER GAME FROM THAT COMPANY.....dont buy it!!!

If you don't have time, don't even bother.

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 65 / 88
Date: May 14, 2000
Author: Amazon User

If you play Ultima Online (UO), it will require a lot of your time. This was how it worked with the original UO, how it continued with the expansion pack "The Second Age", and how it will continue to work with "Renaissance": either you can spend at least 20 hours a week playing the game, or it's a total waste of money. Need I remind those of you who do not know the game that you have to pay a monthly fee, around $10 US dollars (or approximately $15 Canadian dollars) a month for the privilege of playing a game that is not as good as it should be ?

Sure, Ultima Online: Renaissance is supposed to facilitate the building of houses (which was badly needed because of the lack of space prior to Renaissance). A new tutorial is included, which however will not help those people who purchased "The Second Age" recently, and who get the necessary upgrades directly, without having to purchase the new expansion pack. These are minor points affecting trivial elements of the game, yet my main criticism is about the core of the game itself, which remains unchanged with the new upgrade.

Basically this game has no goal, except than that of becoming a Grand Master in whatever skill you choose. This is similar to the level-gaining goals of EverQuest, and even Asheron's Call, probably because the format of these games (online multiplayer games) does not allow the development of a complex plot, otherwise players would literally be waiting in line before receiving a rare object (just read reviews of Asheron's Call or EverQuest for examples of this). So, if you don't like wasting time gaining levels only to ask yourself later: "what do I do now ?", this game might not be for you, unless you like meeting people.

But what kind of people will you meet anyway ? My own experience tells me that unless you already know some people playing the game, you will spend a lot of time alone, because nobody will care about you, and if they do care, it's probably because they're after the contents of your backpack. Otherwise, the other players will simply walk around you without even bothering to answer questions you ask (as any newbie is likely to do). Sure, if you go to Ultima Online's website, there is a list of player-initiated events on the different servers (or shards, as they call the servers), but many of these events do not concern you directly. Some shards have more events than others. For instance, shards such as Catskills and Pacific seem to have many events, while Atlantic (on which I played) has almost none. Sure you can play on another shard, but your characters can't make the switch with you. Furthermore, looking at these player-initiated events from an outsider's perspective makes you wonder if they are even intended for fellow Britannians apart from those who organized the events, since many of these events are organized by guilds. The guild system in Britannia is diverse, and there are many varied guilds, including some professional guilds created by Origin itself (the Bardic Collegium, the Mining Cooperative, etc.). However, most player-created guilds look more like medieval cliques that operate behind closed doors and in which you must know someone in order to join rather than truly open organizations. And in my opinion, joining one of these guilds is probably the key to enjoying the game. Therefore, to fully enjoy the game, you have to already know people playing it, because you won't meet anyone once in the game. And what's the point to befriend someone called "Victoria's Secret" anyway ? Even though it's a bit early to know for sure, I am convinced that Origin's promise that Ultima Online: Renaissance will facilitate fellowships (or parties) will certainly fail to produce the expected results, simply because it is not the game that needs to be changed, it's the players' mentality.

The average player of this game is probably an early teenager (below 16 years old) who somehow got daddy's credit card number. Some of them are simply rude, and will include any possible swear in their comments. If you play this game, you will read a lot of swearing, unless you use the option that replaces the swearing by comic-strip-style censorship, but this option can be very annoying as well. In one instance, part of the word "classic" had been censored because the three middle letters formed another, less-acceptable word. If those players' bad actions were limited to swearing playing the game would still be passable. The problem is that many of them go player-killing just to spoil everyone else's fun. And even though Origin accepts player-killing as lifestyle, one thing must be said here: player-killing is not, and never will be, role-playing, what Ultima Online should be all about.

In summary, Ultima Online: Renaissance will fail to change the game, because what needs to be changed first is the mentality of the people playing the game.

They forgot something......

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: February 26, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Yes, this game is realistic and indept. I also like the idea of playing with other people online. But They forgot to do one thing when they made this game. They forgot to make it fun. UO doesn't even live up to how fun U6 or 7. You'd think with the kind of machines most people own now they would have been able to put more fun in UO.

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