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(More customer reviews)I recently upgraded to UO:LBR. I look at my account screen and it tells me I've been playing for 50 months. Between the time I signed on I've played Asheron's Call, Everquest, and Dark Age of Camelot, and what do I sit down and play? UO. It's primitive, it's difficult to control, it's dated, and it's still the deepest of the massively multiplayer games.
The game is skill based. It's very easy to get a character started and achieve a reasonable level of competance within a month or so (if you powergame you can actually max your character out in a few weeks). Whether you can go into the most dangerous and interesting areas depends more on your ability to find companions than your ability to "churn xp" for months on end.
When other games have broken tradeskills, UO has a player economy that provides the vast majority of what you use and wear as a player--you can play this game and be entertained by doing nothing but crafting. (You can play other games as a crafter, but I wouldn't say you'd be entertained by it.) Where other games promise horses or have just introduced them, UO features horses, ostards, llamas, dragons, Ki Rin, Ridgebacks, and Unicorns as rideable mounts. You want one of these? You'll have to tame it in the wild or buy it from another player who's done so.
The interface is primitive, the graphics tiny. But it's one of those games that just has lasting power. 50 months after I first heard the UO music play, I can think of hundreds of places I've never gotten around to visit, and types of characters I've never played.
All in all, it's a great game. It may not be for everyone--certainly if you judge a game on graphics, it won't be. But if you haven't experienced it and you're looking for something beyond endless "pulling" and "camping" then give it a try. You might be surprised.
Since there's a lot of confusion about "which UO should I buy?" UO LBR is the complete game, with all supplements and both full 2d and 3d clients. If you buy it, you have everything. If you have UO Third Dawn and play in 3d, there isn't much here. If you play in 2d, this will allow you to visit Ilshenar. In either case it will upgrade some graphics and the music. You get an action figure too, but at 36 years old, this just made me feel silly, YMMV.
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Ultima Online: Lord Blackthorn's Revenge is the most exciting addition yet to the ever popular Ultima Online massively multiplayer online role-playing game. For this version, the Ultima Online team partnered with legendary artist Todd McFarlane, creator of Spawn, to revolutionize the game with exotic, fantastical creatures. You will enter a world under siege, where evil forces have aligned their powers in an attempt to conquer and vanquish the virtuous. Lord Blackthorn returns, corrupted by his own evil ambitions, as a half-man and all-evil tyrant. Over 30 new monsters and creatures designed by McFarlane add a darker, edgier twist to the once familiar land of Britannia. A new land mass located in the center of Ilshenar is the setting for the beginning of this dark siege. Who will prevail in this legendarybattle of good versus evil? Will you come forth to protect and defend the "virtuous" of Britannia? And what frightening and evil foes will await you on your journey?
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