As you talk to the Abyss's inhabitants you will be discovering more and more of the game's story. While traveling from upper floors to lower ones, you will have to accomplish various quests and side-quests. Since possessions are scarce at the beginning, you often have to fight for items, as they are usually well guarded. You will have to find all the equipment such as weapons and armor along the way. When the player is complete, you start off with nothing but a torch in your possession. However, every time you create your player, these attributes are random to a certain point. Based on the class you choose, you will get different primary attributes. Each one has different starting skills that you may choose from. There are many character-classes to choose from. Everything happens in real time and the monsters, people and spells are very nicely animated.īefore you can start playing the game, you need to create your player. What makes it different from other games of it's time is the full 3D environment with the possibility to jump, look up and down and even fly with spells. This is a dungeon-crawl game, although not a typical one for its genre.

This makes you the guiltily person in baron's eyes and you are thrown into the Stygian Abyss with only one goal - to find baron's daughter and to prove you are innocent.

Later in the intro you find out that the girl is a daughter of Baron Almric and you appeared in her sleeping chamber. He tells you that Britannia is once again in danger after which you see a girl being captured by a troll and Garamon's evil brother disappearing before your eyes. Ultima Underworld starts at the point where you enter Britannia, summoned by a ghost of Garamon who was once a powerful wizard.

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