My first time: Lands of Lore: How is the role-playing classic playing today?īut back to the topic. My first time with Ultima Underworld: How is the role-playing classic playing today? PC My first time with Lands of Lore: How does the role-playing classic play today? Read too My first time Ultima Underworld: This is how the role-playing classic plays Incidentally, I recently got Ultima Underworld for this series of articles played for the first time – and was surprised how fascinating the game is still today. Why? The members of the team were big fans of the classic 3D role-playing game Ultima Underworld (1992) and its successor from 1993. The young French Arkane Studios wallowed in memory and melancholy at the same time. Instead, they revived the genre of Action adventures with sneak mechanics à la Thief: The Dark Project (1998) or granted us more and more playful freedoms as in Deus Ex (2000). Slowly, many developers broke away from the rather stupid shooter concepts Doom (1993) or Quake (1996). 2002 was an exciting time for fans of computer and video games: While the console market from Playstation 2 to Xbox could keep up with modern PC computers, the first person perspective continued to expand their supremacy.

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