Ultima Online: Third Dawn

Publisher: Electronic Arts

Developer: Electronic Arts

Category: Role-Playing

Release Dates

N Amer - 03/27/2001

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While 2004 may be the year of the MMPs, let’s step back and revisit the world of Ultima Online
“UO is different than most MMO's because it is just as much a place of being as it is a place of doing.”

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Ultima Offers Character Transfer Between Shards
Players can buy a code to move 1 avatar

Ultima Online Has Hottest Real Estate Market in the World
Thousands of house lots open, causing historic land rush

Ultima Online: Third Dawn Launched by EA
The fantasy virtual world of Ultima(tm) Online (UO) is launching into an exciting, new dimension with the release today of Ultima Online: Third Dawn(tm).

UO: Third Dawn Goes Gold
ORIGIN Systems is pleased to announce that Ultima Online: Third Dawn has hit gold status

Description

With Third Dawn, Ultima Online is more immersive than ever with fully animated, motion captured 3-D characters, each with enhanced character gesturing and animations. Third Dawn features hundreds of motion-captured animations on nearly 200 different character models. An enhanced lighting and shading system, a 3-D terrain system, a new land to explore, new monsters and dozens of new rendered looks for almost all UO creatures and a particle system for spell and magic effects make Ultima Online look better than ever before.

Hardware Requirements

Pentium II 266 MHz, 64 MB RAM, Windows 95/98/ME, 715MB Hard Drive Space, Supported 8MB 3D graphics accelerator with Direct3D Support. (Voodoo2 cards NOT SUPPORTED). See www.uo3d.com for a full list of supported 3D graphics accelerators.), 4X CD-ROM drive, 16-bit sound card (DirectX 7.0 Supported), Microsoft-compatible mouse, 100% Windows 95/98 compatible, An ISP with a Slip/PPP or direct connect at 28.8 kbps or better. Recommended: Pentium II 350 MHz, 128 MB RAM, Windows 95/98, 750MB Hard Drive Space, Supported 16MB 3D graphics accelerator with Direct3D Support. See www.uo3d.com for a full list of supported 3D graphics accelerators.), 4X CD-ROM drive, 16-bit sound card (DirectX 7.0 Supported), Microsoft-compatible mouse, 100% Windows 95/98 compatible, An ISP with a Slip/PPP or direct connect at 56.6 kbps or better.

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ESRB Rating

Mature
Blood and Gore
Violence

GameZone's Review/Preview

8.0

GZ Rating

Gameplay8
Graphics8
Sound7.5
Difficulty8.5
Concept6.5
Multiplayer9
Overall8.0

Reviewer: Michael Lafferty

Review Date: 04/09/2001


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