STP: Ultima Forever: Quest for the Avatar takes place 21 years after the events of Ultima IV. Thankfully (for younger gamers, anyway), you don’t need to be familiar the 1985 classic to be sucked into the world of Britainnia in the upcoming iOS game.
EG:So farewell then, Ultima. The title of developer Mythic and publisher EA's new entry in the series, an iOS-exclusive, free-to-play MMORPG-lite, is Ultima Forever. These words you can visualise chiselled on a gravestone. Make no mistake; this game has the surface of a vibrant fantasy, but it is a grasping and shallow product.
Ultima Forever proves to be a bit of a mixed bag, despite its influence of Ultima IV.
Forbes - Electronic Arts’ free-to-play mobile MMORPG Ultima Forever: Quest for the Avatar has arrived on iOS. On the surface, Ultima Forever appears to be a shining example of the mobile game coming into its own as a legitimate gaming experience, a wonderful hack-and-slash romp through fantasy fields and dungeons with content tailored from five-minute to five-hour sessions.
