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Ultima Online

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1997 video game

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Ultima Online is a role-playing game developed by Origin Systems and published by Electronic Arts. It belongs to the Ultima franchise and is available on PC, specifically Microsoft Windows. The game features a massively multiplayer online mode.

The title was released in 1997, with sources citing September 24 or September 25 of that year. It has received a rating of 4.17 from RAWG and a score of 59 from Metacritic. Additional ratings include 96 from IGDB based on 49 user ratings, and a critic rating of 67 from one critic.

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Game data

Metacritic 59
Released
1997-09-25
User rating
4.17 / 5
Genres
Massively Multiplayer, RPG
Platforms
PC

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Game details · IGDB

67Critic score · 1 ratings
96User score · 49 ratings

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.

Released
1997
Genres
Role-playing (RPG)
Platforms
PC (Microsoft Windows)
Game modes
Massively Multiplayer Online (MMO)
Franchise
Ultima
Developer
Origin Systems
Publisher
Electronic Arts

Official website

Ultima Online

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
video game
Country of origin
United States
Series
Ultima
Platform
Linux
Designed by
Raph Koster
Official website
www.uo.com
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publication date
1997-09-24
input device
computer keyboard
language of work or name
English language
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