Ultima VII: The Black Gate

Came with six 3.5' disks. The original release included a demo of Ultima Underworld on a 5.25' disk. U7 was rerealsed both by Origin and Electronic Arts in many packages that included the sequels/add-ins for U7 (Forge of Virtue, Serpent Isle, The Silver Seed)

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The 7th canonical game in the Ultima series and the first game in Ultima's Age of Armageddon. The player and party can use crossbows and bows. Ingredients can be mixed to bake bread and other things. Cheese is available as food. A variety of items can be crafted into other items. There are pumpkin fields in the game, from which pumpkins can be harvested. Flight of the Bumblebee is played at one point, Rule Britannia is overplayed. There are several prisoners in the game and its this plays into the plot more than once. An addictive medicine in the game is abused by characters and can be abused by the player's character and party, with consequences. Unicorns are mentioned in in-game books and by characters
Origin once again attempted to create a game engine as they had done before with Ultima IV and Ultima VI. Arthurian Legends was the game they would attempt to create using the U7 Engine. AL was not completed and the source code of the Ultima VII games was later lost.

A game engine called Exult allows the game to run on a wide variety of platforms

(Zerothis) - # 2008-08-24 01:48:08

Still one of the best RPG's ever made IMO. The Forge of Virtue was a small expansion released with some packages. Ever wondered how to get this baby to run on Windows? Check here:
exult.sourceforge.net

(cjlee001) - # 2007-01-04 09:22:57

software: Ultima VII,

display: raster

expansion:
Ultima VII: Forge of Virtue (MS-DOS)

has influenced
Tibia (Linux)

prequel of
Ultima Underworld II: Labyrinth of Worlds (FM Towns)
Ultima Underworld II: Labyrinth of Worlds (MS-DOS)

sequel of
Ultima VI: The False Prophet (MS-DOS)
Ultima Underworld: The Stygian Abyss (PS)
Ultima Underworld: The Stygian Abyss (NEC PC9801)
Ultima Underworld: The Stygian Abyss (FM Towns)
Ultima Underworld: The Stygian Abyss (MS-DOS)

version of
Ultima VII: The Black Gate (Xbox)
Ultima VII: The Black Gate (GP2X)
Ultima VII: The Black Gate (Mac OS Classic)
Ultima VII: The Black Gate (Linux)
Ultima VII: The Black Gate (Windows)

was remade as
Ultima VII: The Feudal Lands (Xbox)
Ultima VII: The Feudal Lands (GP2X)
Ultima VII: The Feudal Lands (Windows)
Ultima VII: The Feudal Lands (Mac OS X)
Ultima VII: The Feudal Lands (Amiga)