Ultima Forever

Ultima Forever is an attempt by EA to bring back an aging classic, an important franchise that has seen little to no love since the turn of the century and there hasn’t been a mainstream release involving the Ultima brand since 1997. While both the Ultima series and Ultima Online hold an important place in the history of the MMO genre, as well as the history of gaming overall, the series has fallen into disrepair and, after several attempts at getting a new Ultima game off the ground were thwarted, nobody expected to ever see a revival and, for the most part, I’m not sure too many people cared. There had been upwards of 10 games in the series, there had been multiple re-releases and novel tie-ins and, three decades after the original game was released and without the original creator, there was no way EA could recapture the soul that made the series a success.