Martian dream and Savage empire are perhapes the BEST of the Ultima series, built upon the Ultima 6 engine but more refined, less clutter. Also they are a good escape from the world of Brtiannia where most new players have no clues of the geography and 'local' custom. Funny thing is the Ultima world that Ultima 7 and certainly ultima 8 killed continued on Ultima Online. Guess they finally realised that cool graphics and action is not so important as stable engine, good interface and good plot. Speaking of PLOT, martian dream and Savage empire have one of the best and imaginative plots I have ever seen, its almost worth it to just read the game and not play it, witht he martian dream world, famous characters, and the underground city and ant people complex in savage empire, and the T-rex, the space cannon, the mines of martian dream, I use to love the maps that came with it and studied it for hours just to explore the landscape, take the barge on a ride.......
I really really want to replay it but I know if i start it would be 4 days before I would finish and the amount of time just scares me. Again, a must keep, archive it and show it to damn people are EA and Rock Star that great game is not about 3D engines, atleast the Japs tries to put a plot into their games.
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