At the last San Diego Comic Con, Electronics Arts and BioWare announced that the classic RPG, Ultima, is about to be relaunched for iPad and desktop computers. Will be called Ultima Forever: Quest for the Avatar. Many players of the mythical saga will be bouncing with joy with the recovery of this famous video game old school.
It is curious that they recover the title of the fourth installment, Quest of the Avatar, of the nine that were developed, but for many this was one of the best and that brought aspects that later became fundamental in the history of videogames, since for the first time the objective was not to defeat an evil character but to seek the virtue and personal development of the protagonist to become the ethical and spiritual reference, the Avatar, of the inhabitants of Britannia.
On the website that EA has published to promote, UltimaForever.com, the game is available a registration to test the beta phase of the game. Those who want to become testers of the game must have a account in Origin, EA's store for PC games. If you want to be one of the lucky ones and you don't have an account, you can go to their website and To open an account in which you will have to enter your credit card details for future purchases.
IGN News magazine tells us that the plot of the video game will be very similar to that of Ultima IV but that it will have a look and gameplay similar to Diablo 3. In the beta version, you can play as the Warrior (Fighter) or the Wizard (Mage) character. Also, the game will be multiplayer and some of the achievements that you have to achieve, such as the Virtue of Sacrifice, push you to play in cooperative mode. To get points for this virtue you will have to help lower-level players to get missions.
One of the details that are very practical is that it is a game transplantaformaThat is, you can start playing on your PC and then move on to playing on your iPad at the same point of progress that you left off. Ultima Forever: Quest for the Avatar will be a game that will not need additional disbursements to complete it, all the necessary elements to complete the game are free, although you can buy accessories with an aesthetic function or that help you complete the game with more speed .