Description:
For hard-core role players, Ultima Online: The Second Age offers the perfect fantasy milieu--a massive online world and a pool of dedicated playmates. After working through a fairly extensive installation and account setup, you get to create a character, choosing the statistics, profession, and even the look of the avatar. This character is then sent to Britannia. As an apprentice in your chosen field, you are free to seek experience, mentors, adventure, and treasure. There are many monsters and obstacles to player survival. Thriving in the Ultima Online universe requires quick wits, resourcefulness, and more than a little luck. The game is complex, with loads to learn (requiring a very up-to-date computer and a fast Internet connection). This may sound like more trouble than it's worth, but the world of Britannia is very much enriched by its online existence. With most other characters run by other Internet users, Ultima Online has spontaneity and flexibility nonexistent in traditional computer games. Instead of being herded through a fixed plot, you build your character's fortunes from the ground up. The result is a story without end in a world players can visit as often as they like. --Alyx Dellamonica
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