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Ultima Underworld: The Stygian Abyss

The PlayStation port of Ultima Underworld I, released exclusively in Japan, features a number of enhancements and changes from the original, including new 3D polygonal graphics, a new controls and tweaked game…

14 March 1997

Ultima Underworld: The Stygian Abyss is a role-playing (rpg) developed by Looking Glass Technologies, released 14 March 1997 on PlayStation.

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What Ultima Underworld: The Stygian Abyss is

Ultima Underworld: The Stygian Abyss is a role-playing (rpg) game developed by Looking Glass Technologies and released in 1997. It was published by Electronic Arts Victor. It is available on PlayStation only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Setting Ultima Underworld is set in Britannia, the fantasy world of the Ultima series. Specifically, the game takes place inside a large, underground dungeon called the Great Stygian Abyss. The dungeon's entrance lies on the Isle of the Avatar, an island ruled by Baron Almric. The Abyss first appeared in Ultima IV: Quest of the Avatar, in which it contains the player's final goal, the Codex of Ultimate Wisdom. Ultima Underworld is set after the events of Ultima VI: The False Prophet; in the time between the two games, a man named Cabirus attempted to create a utopian colony inside the Abyss. The eight settlements of the Ultima series each embody one of eight virtues, and Cabirus wished to…
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How it plays

It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action, fantasy and stealth. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

Where it sits in the Ultima series

Ultima Underworld: The Stygian Abyss is the 36th of 45 entries we hold in the Ultima series. The next entry was Ultima Online in 1997.

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What it launched against

Ultima Underworld: The Stygian Abyss launched on 14 March 1997, within three weeks of Castlevania: Symphony of the Night, Blast Corps, Doom 64 and Turok: Dinosaur Hunter.

Released around the same time: Castlevania: Symphony of the Night, Blast Corps, Doom 64, Turok: Dinosaur Hunter.

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When did Ultima Underworld: The Stygian Abyss come out?
Ultima Underworld: The Stygian Abyss was released on 14 March 1997 for PlayStation.

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