The events of the game take place eighteen months after those described in Ultima VII: The Black Gate. Batlin, the leader of the Fellowship has disappeared, as well as Iolo's wife Gwenno. A map is found that points to the Serpent Isle where the Guardian is still planning to destroy Britannia. Lord British sends the Avatar and his companions to this new land. Once there, the Avatar discovers that a great imbalance is upon the isle and it is up to him to fix it. To do so, he must learn the philosophies of the original inhabitants of this land, who worshipped giant serpents symbolizing the principles of Order, Chaos and Balance.

Serpent Isle uses virtually the same game engine as the first Ultima VII, with some slight modifications in inventory management and NPC portraits (which are now digitized images of actors). The story, however, is more linear and also more extensive. Unlike earlier Ultima games, many tasks have to be accomplished before the player is able to advance to a different area. There are also many scripted events that advance the plot, though the free-roaming is still retained to a large degree, with a vast amount of locations to visit, items to collect, and NPCs to interact with. Combat is handled similarly to the previous game, with a simple real-time point-and-click management of the Avatar's actions, while his/her party members are being controlled by the AI.

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Merchant	Title	Platform	Price
	Ultima VII 7 Part Two II: Serpent Isle	DOS	$40.00
	Ultima VII: Part Two - Serpent Isle
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User Reviews

Paving the path to the great RPG revival	Unicorn Lynx (132760)
The single best RPG of the 90's.	András Gregorik (51)
Less bugs, more straitjacket	Colin Rowsell (45)	unrated
Doug, put away those matches! I'll take your box!	-Chris (7375)	unrated
not an Ultima anymore.... but a quite good game	Emanuele Borinato (11)
Run away - far, far away. Better yet, set the box and it's disks on fire, then run away.	Cyric (50)	unrated
Very similar to The Black Gate, without all the bugs	OceansDaughter (105)

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The Press Says

Tilt	Dec, 1993	93 out of 100	93
PC Player (Germany)	May, 1993	87 out of 100	87
Power Play	Jun, 1993	85 out of 100	85
ASM (Aktueller Software Markt)	Jun, 1993	10 out of 12	83
Techtite	2000		80
All Game Guide	1998		70
PC Review UK	Jun, 1993	7 out of 10	70

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Trivia

Find the bridge that is east of the Spinebreaker Mountains magic carpet chamber, and in the vicinity you will see a plaque.
The only way to access it to see what it reads is to activate the game's cheat mode and use the hack mover function to remove sections of the bridge.
When you double click to read the message you will find it says "Turn off the Hack Mover, you cheater!"

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This entry to the MobyGames database was contributed by Terok Nor (15629) on Jan 09, 2000.