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3.0Underworld Ascendant touches on something but never really grasps it. It doesn't utilise any of the improvements from its long absence from the industry and even falls flat compared to the game it is meant to be the successor of.
Underworld Ascendant
OtherSide Entertainment · Nov 15, 2018
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Far more than a dungeon crawl, Underworld Ascendant is a next-generation sequel to the legendary fantasy RPG’s Ultima Underworld & Ultima Underworld 2. It not only modernizes the series’ visuals and user interface to take full advantage of the today’s powerful PC’s, it innovates in bold new ways.
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- IGN3.0Underworld Ascendant is just broken. What little roleplaying game fun there might’ve been is taken off the table by technical failings, a save system that feels like cruel and unusual punishment, and a bland story that takes place in similarly repetitive environments. Not one of the core systems for interacting with the world, be it combat, magic, or stealth impresses on its own, and that’s when they even work right.
- Cultured Vultures2.0Underworld Ascendant is plagued by a smattering of bugs, physics that makes no sense and gameplay that is an affront to the game it aims to be a sequel of. Ascendant can go back into the abyss and stay there.
- TechRaptor1.0Ultima Underworld: The Stygian Abyss was first and foremost an amazing game before it became an Immersive Sim™. Ascendant was built on the hallowed ground of great games that followed in the wake of Underworld, but it is entirely unworthy of the mantle. This is not an Underworld game, it’s not an immersive sim, and it’s not even remotely the game that was promised during its Kickstarter campaign.
- PC Gamer2.5I’m genuinely interested to know what happened with this project, why it’s gone so horribly wrong. Not only because I’m a fan of Looking Glass’ work, but also because OtherSide are currently developing System Shock 3. If it’s anything like this, well, let's not think about that too much. Underworld Ascendant is simply terrible.
- GameSpot2.0Framed as a spiritual successor to Ultima Underworld, Underworld Ascendant misses the mark with almost every shot, much like my aforementioned hapless archer. At the same time, even freed from the expectations its historical baggage brings, it is a clear failure. The spirit of Ultima Underworld lives on elsewhere.
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