Lord of Ultima

Lord of Ultima
Studio	EA Phenomic
Publisher	Electronic Arts
Erstveröffent- lichung	April 20, 2010 (Open Beta)
platform	Web browser
genre	Strategy game
Game mode	MMORPG
control	Mouse keyboard
language	German
information	Cessation of operations on May 12, 2014

Lord of Ultima was a browser - strategy game from Electronic Arts .

Gameplay

As in many online strategy games, the content of Lord of Ultima was to manage resources, use these resources to build an army, and use this army to defeat other players. The aim of the game was to become the Lord of Ultima together with his alliance . To this end, all players in an alliance tried to build palaces in their castles and then expand them gradually. For eight virtues, an alliance had to own a tenth-level palace so that the alliance could win in the corresponding world. It was fought exclusively against human players, computer-generated figures were not used.

The game belonged to the Ultima series . In terms of gameplay, however, it couldn't be compared with the other games in the Ultima series, it was more reminiscent of The Settlers or the Anno game series.

Development and publication

The German development studio Phenomic was responsible for the development of Lord of Ultima . The publisher was Electronic Arts . The spiritual father of the Siedler series, Volker Wertich, contributed to the game . The game ran as a free-to-play game on the Bigpoint platform , among others , where it was one of the top 10 games (as of May 2011). The basic functions were available for free; to simplify the gameplay, add-ons were available for a fee. According to Phenomic, the game is said to have been well received compared to other browser games.

In July 2013, the Phenomic development studio was unexpectedly closed. The operational business with Lord of Ultima was transferred to the Swedish studio Easy Games, which belongs to Electronic Arts. In February 2014, Electronic Arts announced the end of the game on May 12, 2014.

In January 2016, the independent studio Gaming Addict Studios released Crown of the Gods, a browser game that reproduces the game mechanics of Lord of Ultima in detail.

reception

From the point of view of GameStar's online portal , the game has been developed very elaborately for a browser game. In 2011, Lord of Ultima won the Audience Award in the "MMO of the Year" competition in the categories "Most Innovative Game Design" and "Technical Achievement"; EA Phenomic also won the Audience Award for "Best Studio".

Web links

• Official website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f} Are you still building or are you already fighting? , gamestar.de, accessed on May 26, 2011
2. ↑ ^{a b} Lord of Ultima: RPG classics as browser game beta , golem.de, accessed on May 26, 2011
3. ↑ Lord of Ultima Preview: RPG world meets Anno-Siedelei - Live from the beta test (days 3 - 5) , pcgames.de, accessed on May 26, 2011
4. ↑ Lord of Ultima browser game now playable at Bigpoint , ea.com, accessed on May 26, 2011
5. ↑ Game Charts Browsergames & Downloadgames , de.bigpoint.com, accessed on May 26, 2011
6. ↑ "Play4Free allows many players to first take a look at a game and evaluate whether they want to get involved." ( Memento from August 14, 2011 in the Internet Archive ), galaxynews.de, accessed on May 26, 2011
7. ↑ LastTokenGaming.com: Silent Execution - EA and Lord of Ultima. Retrieved January 24, 2016 . 
8. ↑ http://www.gamestar.de/spiele/lord-of-ultima/news/lord_of_ultima,46507,3032638.html
9. ↑ Hacki.moe: Crown Of The Gods - The new Lord of Ultima. Retrieved January 24, 2016 . 
10. ↑ MMOoftheYear.com: Browser Game of the Year 2010-2011 Winners. Retrieved January 31, 2016 .