Ultima IX: Ascension
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Ultima IX: Ascension is an adventure developed by Origin Systems, released 24 November 1999 on PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Ultima IX: Ascension is
Ultima IX: Ascension is an adventure game developed by Origin Systems and released in 1999. It was published by Electronic Arts. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
In the beginning of Ultima IX, the Avatar had somehow returned to Earth for an unspecified amount of time before getting back to Britannia. The game starts just after the end of Ultima VIII, in which the Avatar is transported to a Guardian-controlled Britannia. He arrives in Britannia on a mountain overlooking the Guardian's keep in Terfin. The Avatar is transported to Stonegate by Hawkwind the Seer (from Ultima IV), who informs him that great columns have appeared throughout the land, and their malignant influence has caused plagues, famine, and other natural disasters. Under their power, the people of Britannia have twisted the Virtues into mockeries of their true meaning. The Guardian is…
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action, fantasy, open world and stealth. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
Where it sits in the Ultima series
Ultima IX: Ascension is the 39th of 45 entries we hold in the Ultima series. It arrived 11 months after Akalabeth: World of Doom. The next entry was Ultima Online: Renaissance in 2000.
How it was received
Ultima IX: Ascension holds a critic score of 50 out of 100. That places it above 7% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 1999 averaged 72, so it scored 22 points below the year average.
What it launched against
Ultima IX: Ascension launched on 24 November 1999, within three weeks of Unreal Tournament, Pokémon Gold Version, Pokémon Silver Version and Quake III Arena. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Unreal Tournament, Pokémon Gold Version, Pokémon Silver Version, Quake III Arena.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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