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I love Third Dawn

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 5
Date: November 18, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I have experienced Ultima Online using both the 2d and the 3d client. Third Dawn, not only featuring new lands, monsters, and improved graphics (which are beautiful), also throws in alot of extras never to be found in 2d. Such as: many body gestures performed in animation, a much clearer text style and placement making it easier to follow what is going on.

However, you do need an ample system to properly run Third Dawn. A good video accellerator card is HIGHLY recommended in addition to CPU speed and a good amount of RAM.

Dont be fooled by employees reviews

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 7 / 9
Date: April 05, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Come to the ultima board at uo.com. There you can see that this game is not worth anyones money and time. Do you really want to pay for a product that hasn't gone past beta yet? Many of the things advertized on the box and for the game don't exist. The development team hasn't figured out how to do them. And if you believe that it will improve, realize this: those that are currently playing have been waiting 6 months to over a year for fixes and the last promised additions. Many promised additions get dropped and never implemented. Its this type of poor planning and programing that has come to typify Orgin work. The fantasy of the game has been destroyed, pop up instructions like You see an item:a box serve to remnd you that yup, its a game. And the multitude of skills advertised? The majority do nothing for nothing, only serve to add to the total numbers. The game has stagnated. The current development team throws a new graphics skin on an old creature and calls it an update, and that they added new content. There are no aspects of roleplay, no storyline nothing. Nor will there be, as OPSI has fired most of the stafff associated with it. The play itself is bad. 1 gig computer 526 MB RAM and I lag and crash every half hour. The graphics harken back to Doom 1. You can zoom in on your character, but in doing so you are the only thing on your screen(they did this trick on the box), making play impossible. The game does not support windows ME or any Vodoo grapics cards, and has issues with ATI cards. And on a final note, dont be fooled into thinking this is a game of sword and sorcery. Its just sword. The magic system has been gutted over player vs player(which if you talk to those who do it will tell you there is no challenge in it, its just leathal rock paper, sissors), and is reduced to mere visual effects. The current heads dont like magery(have said so in fact), so dont expect any future improvements to it.

EQ wannabie scam by EA to get your money.

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 10 / 16
Date: April 19, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Ultima been unique world with many aspects to it for last 2 years until about a year ago when OSI&EA started gearing all toward making it more like monster bashing camp-o-rama EQ. UO lost its uniqueness and if you want same but better experience buy yourself Diablo2 and spare pains of monthly fee, system lag and unstable clients with overloaded servers at prime time; with simplistic magic system (only 64 spells and about half ever get used), primitive melee fighting (you can only bash) with hardly functional magic items system (uses worthless spell & chares system) and bad 3D graphics. After all these disadvantages game requires HIGH end system and don't expect it to run any good on anything below P600 256Mb ram and TnT2 32MB card (UO3D has barely supports Voodoo and ATI cards).

Lord British weeps

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 7 / 10
Date: April 04, 2001
Author: Amazon User

It is truley sad to see how the mighty have fallen. UO, once the king of the hill for online gaming, has slunk into the ditch with this latest "effort". Graphically a step backward, this game sacrifices performance for badly done 3D. If you run(assuming you manage to install it) this game expect to crash often. Lag is the norm. Bugs abound, though they are patched hap-hazardly during log on to OSI servers. However, the patches themselves oft add to the problem and are patched the very next day. You may be lucky though and the game might like your hardware configuration, but doubtful. If you have problems, please expect to continue have them, customer service is not a priority for this company. If you must start an online game today, it might give you the fix you need, provided that you play with the provided 2D client, but I highly advise waiting for one of the newer online games ciming out soon.

Not Ready Yet...

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 6
Date: March 24, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I totally agree with other beta testers. This product is NOT ready to be released yet. It crashes occasionally, and lags terribly. It has good graphics, and nice interface - but it should not be released at this time.

Oops, I thought this was a game.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 6
Date: April 04, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I thought this was gonna be a cool new game. It's not. Its the same old Ultima garbage that has been around for 5 years or something. When I finally got in the game after a long install and upgrade process, I found an old style game with crappy graphics. The lighting on this game is totally stupid ugly. The characters all walk around like they have bone marrow desease. Then I started crashing. I had to reboot my system after every crash and when I was in the game, I would crash out to windows about every 10 minutes. Who are they kidding with this game? I tried some msg boards to see if I could get a fix. No way. The message boards are full of people with the same problems. Then some guy from the company msgs that you may need to check your drivers. ?? oh well. I have a brand new computer. I don't think its my computer there cisco. Nice try. I am taking this pile back to best buy.

Downgrade for UO

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: February 26, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I was "lucky" enough to beta this "upgrade." The promise of 3D graphics and new lands was very exciting...until I loaded the CD. I got it free, but like at least 90% of UO players, I kept right on using the 2D client. Why? Because the 3D graphics are incredibly ugly compared to the 2D graphics, which included art by a famous fantasy illustrator. The 3D versions which come with this CD look like a 10 year old with a public domain renderer created them. Only the spell effects are acceptable. Everyone I knew who betaed cringed when we heard it it was deemed ready for release. Since then, it has received many patches to improve the speed and to some extent the graphics, but you still won't be happy even after sitting through what I expect will be half an hour of patching. This edition is also out of date already, with the release of Lord Blackthorn's Revenge. Save your money and buy the new version if you are interested in 3D. If you are not interested in 3D, buy the Renaissance edition for under $(...) here. It contains access to almost all the areas and items. The items it lacks you can buy from players who have one of the 3D versions. Another plus if you buy the Blackthorn's Revenge version. It allows you to access the landmass of Ilshenar in 2D. Yes, EA apparently now realizes how terrible a mistake they made with this edition and is backpeddling fast to try and keep their majority of customers who preferred the 2D. The only reason to buy this CD is if you are absolutely sure you will be playing in 3D all the time and you already have multiple 2D accounts. Blackthorn's Revenge requires that you buy a different copy for each account you own to receive all the benefits.

Pausing to read the box was a waste of time, much less...

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: April 06, 2001
Author: Amazon User

much less the money spent purchasing it, the headache of trying to get it to operate, and the time spent returning it to the store. It won't run, I promise. Not only that, but the support is terrible. Look to AC or EQ, or better yet one of the upcoming games like Fallen Age. Too bad EA said no to UO2.

Not worth the cd its printed on

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: April 03, 2001
Author: Amazon User

simply put the games not ready, there are a number of issues with diffrent cards that have yet to be fixed, as well a memory leak since build 58 (at time of review they are on build 60) the graphics will catch no eyes, as they are for the most part poorly done, all the backpacks/chests background have been replaced with a dull grey box,

charaters tend to walk funny, and most clothing is a poor fit, some armors look like something a child put together for his game.

i would like to say something nice about this game, but its hard, as a beta tester i can say they relised it well before its time, most things we thought were placeholders where the real graphics or menus.

it is getting better, dispite poor comunication with the playerbase, they have managed to improve a few things, but causeing more memory problems whith those upgrades. \

with 3rd dawn they introduced something called Locilization, ment to make the game much more accessable to non english speaking lauguages by makeing the game easyer to translate, however this was poorly done and causes the game to feel more like a database then a midevil world.

i wish i could say some nice things to balance, however this is one case where the good is not easy to find

Best Game Ever!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 7
Date: July 16, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Hail! I have only played for 2 months but am hooked already. This version is not for everyone's computer, but for computers that can handle it, it's great! A cable connection makes a difference too. If you plan on playing UO, buy this version! It comes with the 2d version also. So you have nothing to lose. If you later get an upgrade or they patch any errors with your system, you will have this 3d version available.

The game itself is so much fun to play. So much depth. Something for everyone. I have met people in this game of all age groups. Grandparents through children. Something for everyone is to be found!

Play on! I am Halen of Chessie! See you online!

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