Description
You are the Avatar, returning to Britannia after 200 years of absence. Strange ritual murders are committed in the land while an organization known as The Fellowship is gathering a huge following. And there is this being known as The Guardian whose mockery follows you on your travels. Your old companions will join you on your quest through Britannia as you slowly discover the secret behind the Fellowship and the Guardian.
Ultima VII features completely revamped graphics and controls. The traditional Ultima top-down view of the world now fills the entire screen, with other informational windows overlaid on top of it only when necessary.
Both world interaction and dialogue are fully mouse-controlled. The tactical combat system of previous Ultimas was replaced with a real-time system where only general strategies can be set and party members fight automatically.
The Britannia of Ultima VII is a large virtual world with lots of details: hundreds of NPCs can be talked to, virtually every object in the game is usable in some way and many side quests await the player.
Alternate Titles
- "創世紀7：黑月之門" -- Traditional Chinese
- "Ultima VII: La Porte Noire" -- French title
- "Ultima VII - Die schwarze Pforte" -- German title
- "Ultima 7" -- Informal title
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Trivia
Although it is quite a long game with many quests, only two things are needed to finish the game, The Black Gate and the Black Rock Wand. If you use the cheats you can grab both these items straight away and complete the game in just a few minutes and see the nicely animated ending sequence.
If you sit through the credits then another option will be available to view quotes humourous quotes from the development staff. At the end of this the butterfly from the intro floats onto the screen then blows up, followed by an evil cackle from the Guardian.
By putting the following parameters after 'ultima7' when running the game you can enable a special test mode. the parameter 'ABCD' followed by a special character by holding down ALT and typing 255 on the numeric keypad. This allows you to access special menus using the function keys. While this can be used to cheat it also allows you to play with and explore many of the intricasies of the world such as items, NPC actions and secret areas.
If you manage to kill Lord British (the black rock is handy for this) you will find in his corpse (amongst other stuff) a lightning bolt which acts as a missile weapon and is how he casts spells if you fight him.
There is a room in the mountains east of cove (can only be accessed with the cheat) where all the people who have been killed go. Most of them are alive and well and you can even talk to them.
