For the last time, the Avatar is being summoned to free Britannia from Guardian's curse. The eight Shrines of Virtues, the pride of Britannia, have been all desecrated by this evil and mysterious creature. The glyphs which protected them have been taken, and put into huge columns the Guardian built in Britannia, with their entrances hidden deep in dangerous dungeons. And so, the people of Britannia lost their virtues. You, as Avatar, must now cleanse the shrine and let the virtues return to the people. Your task is especially difficult since you can't trust any more the people you encounter. But a shrewd and beautiful pirate girl Raven changes your life forever, and helps you on your dangerous quest. With her help, you'll liberate the Britannians, and learn about the true origin of the Guardian.

This last single-player Ultima game is an action/adventure with very slight elements of role-playing (weapon and armor customization), while the levelling-up doesn't depend on the amount of enemies you've killed and the combat is real time, without a party to help you. The game features support for EAX sound and a full 3D world with an almost unrestricted freedom of movement.

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Alternate Titles

"創世紀 IX" -- Chinese title (traditional)
"Ultima: Ascension" -- Working title
"Ultima 9" -- Informal title

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Merchant	Title	Platform	Price
	Ultima IX: Ascension
	Ultima Online 7th Anniversary Edition	Windows	$3.41
	Ultima Online: The 8th Age	Windows	$8.67
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User Reviews

A beautiful, immersive game, and a worthy conclusion to the great series	JazzOleg (53181)
Everything you've heard about its beautiful aesthetics is true	Donn Thomson (4)	unrated
Once again, we see the genius of Lord British, the master storyteller.	Jeanne (48655)
Extremely bug-ridden game but its actually quite fun!	cimerians (48)
Ultima IX: growing stronger in 2001: Review update	frank rieter (143)
An appropriate death knell for the single-player Ultima adventures.	JubalHarshaw (287)
Sucks to be you Avatar!	Zovni (8842)
Ahead of it's time, for good and bad.	tino rossi (2)
George gives a blank stare at U9 box, CDs, and materials	George Shannon (110)
Well seeing as I could hardly even play it...	Sam Tinianow (102)	unrated

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The Press Says

Gamezilla	Feb 10, 2000	95 out of 100	95
GameStar (Germany)	Jan, 2000	92 out of 100	92
Game Over Online	Dec 03, 1999	90 out of 100	90
Power Unlimited	Jun, 2000	8.3 out of 10	83
PC Gamer	Aug 01, 2000	80 out of 100	80
Absolute Games (AG.ru)	Dec 13, 1999	80 out of 100	80
Jeuxvideo.com	Mar 24, 2000	14 out of 20	70
Gamekult	Sep 21, 2000	7 out of 10	70
Gamezone (Germany)	Apr 26, 2001	6.5 out of 10	65
IGN	Dec 10, 1999	6.2 out of 10	62

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Forums

Topic	# Posts	Last Post
XP?	2	Zovni (8842) Sep 27, 2007
the game	4	MichaelPalin (458) Aug 27, 2007

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Trivia

One controversial move by Origin that was the final slap in the face for many gamers was it's decision to shut down it's message boards. Quite simply at the height of the tech-support madness surrounding Ascension's bugs, Origin decided to shut down Ultima Ascension's official Bulletin Boards, leaving them as read-only versions for a while while they re-directed traffic towards fan-managed sites such as The Wayward Avatar and Ultima Horizons.

Now that's what I call sticking by your products!

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This entry to the MobyGames database was contributed by JubalHarshaw (287) on Jan 23, 2000.