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Summary: Not yet ready for prime time
Review: This game was released too early. Probably within the next weeks/months it will stabilize as new on-line patches are released. However, for now (build 61), the game is just plain too unreliable. Some people claim to be able to run without problems, but I (and many, many others) experience client crashes every 20 minutes or so. Either buy the older UO Renaissance, or wait until this version has stabilized.
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Summary: Don't waste your time with this one!
Review: I think I wasted my money getting this one. Th graphic are the tiniest bit better to the last Ultima Online and the controls are horrific. It tokk me 10 minutes to cross a bridge, because I had got stuck between a cat and a cloaked fisherman, who didnt seem to interact or move at all. This game needs a lot of patience, and knowledge of what you are actually doing. I was walking around some village for longer than 2 hours until I came across a woman who said she could help me. abaut then the game crashes, stating an illegal operation has been caused. I might have a look at the 3D version of Ultima Oline looking for a release next year, but I defiantely wont be playing on Third Dawn again.
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Summary: Excellent game.
Review: This add-on is awesome! Origin (the game's creator) takes the game another step further with new lands, new monsters, new items, and best of all 3D graphics.The new lands have a theme of exploration. No recalling/gating can be used in these new lands, so you must explore by foot. This makes things much more fun for everyone. New items include samuri weapons and armor. Plus, new craftable items! Along with your avatar, all the monsters have been redone in 3D. Plus with the new additions like Pixies and Centuars. Also, UO:3D adds TWO new ridable creatures! The Kirin and the Unicorn. Both possess special abilites! Do yourself a favor and by this game. Its well worth it.
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Summary: Would that we could put 0 stars, as a review...
Review: I've played Ultima Online for over 3 years. I participated in the beta for this 3D add-on for the game. I run a large guild, and host bi-weekly events. Despite all it's problems, I've always been a supporter of the game in general. There is so much to it, and so much to do... it can keep a gamer busy, literally, for years. This 3D client has the potential to add a lot of worthwhile content to the game. New items, new areas, and new creatures can all be added to the new areas without having to cut new CD's. New gestures, new lands to explore, new monsters to fight. All of which is needed in a 3+ year old game. That said this 3D client, as delivered, is non-functional. It's got a memory leak so big you can throw a truck through it. Most players refuse to use it anywhere dangerous (such as fighting monsters, or other players... or anywhere that might happen) as more likely than not the 3D client will crash to your desktop before it hardly gets started. Leaving you at the mercy of what you were fighting. While the environment art is beautiful and some of the new creature art are wonderfully done, the rest is rather childish. They still can't even get the colors to match the 2D client, for the character models. The character models themselves, are ugly till you zoom in close enough that it's the only thing you can see. Most of the creature graphics are just as bad. The "wonderful" character animation you read about in the description, is awful to the extreme. If you wish to play UO with the same old 2D client, then do so. But don't buy this expecting to play with the new 3D client. This Alpha stage client, that was tossed out as a beta... is barely in what should be considered beta stage, upon release.
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Summary: Needs some work, but has great promise!
Review: I have been playing UO for 2 years, since BEFORE the PVP/NON-PVP land split. I also participated in the BETA test for Third Dawn. I beleive that the 3D client can only get better with every patch (yes, it does mean lengthy patches to download). It is a version of a LONG STANDING online role-playing game that has great promise (IF OSI DELIVERS). Be patient, I beleive it will surpass everyones expectations. I also believe it wasn't ready for retail yet.
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Summary: Pausing to read the box was a waste of time, much less...
Review: 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.
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Summary: Dont be fooled by employees reviews
Review: 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.
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Summary: A Beta with bugs sold as a complete game
Review: A non sense update. It keeps 2d background, moves some crap 3d characters and this would be the update to let UO fight againsta the coming online games? UO is a wonderful game. But this update is a shame. And look at all that crashes, HW problems,... ...they really think that our money count nothing?
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Summary: A horrible waste of time
Review: Having played Ultima Online since it's original beta test over three years ago, all I have to say about UO3D is that I wish it were possible to give it a lower rating than one star. The 3D art is bad. Kilts look like hoop skirts. Female players resemble gorillas. All the hair looks like a child colored it in with a crayon. To make matters even worse, all the color hues are messed up. If something is blue in 2D, it will be brown in 3D. Then there's "localization". A feeble attempt to make all the text commands work in several languages. Except that in order to do this, they have completely screwed up the English version. You are forced to use chopped phrases and poor grammar with no punctuation to get anything done. And for the non-English speakers, the translations are a joke. They are done on a word for word basis, which does not convey actual meaning. Since the only reason to buy this would be for the new art, and the new art looks like children made it, there's no point. I won't even go into all the crashes and client side memory leaks. This game was released at least six months too early.
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Summary: Not ready for prime time
Review: The original UO is still a great game, and entirely worth themoney. It is the deepest, most satisfying of all the onlinecommunities I've participated in. That being said, UO3D is about theworst thing that's ever been done to that community. This piece ofsoftware should still be in ALPHA, for god's sake!... Buy it if you'reinterested, but stick to the 2d Rennaissance client that comespackaged with it. The UO3D interface will only disappoint you as ithas so many others
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