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Lord of Ultima is a free to play browser based MMORTS video game that you can play online. The game is published and developed by EA and is mostly “free” for all players. If you want to get more elusive items in the game, you will have to play real money in order to get them in the way of micro transactions.

Lord of Ultima starts off in routine fashion much like any RTS video game. The game starts off immediately where you have an empty piece of land that you need to populate. The only building that has been constructed at the start of the game is the Town Hall. In order to make your city thrive and alive, you first need to collect resources such as wood, stone and iron. These are the ingredients that will enable you to construct more buildings and hopefully allow you to recruit an army too.

Like many other RTS games before it, the tutorial in Lord of Ultima is slow paced so be prepared to be patient at the very start. You can always opt to skip the tutorial altogether, although you might miss out on some important information if you do.

Anyway, the very start of the game is pretty slow because all of the required quests are for you to construct certain buildings. As aforementioned, it’s a slow process but it’s a necessary step to take to ensure you have all the necessary buildings that will enable you to have a healthy city and army. Also, your city is “protected” from being attacked from other players for seven days. This is a feature usually featured in most other RTS games to prevent players from picking on beginners all of the time.

Another thing about Lord of Ultima that may disappoint some gamers is the combat system. There really isn’t any type of combat present here in this game as all of the battles are text based. You pretty much just recruit an army with as many troops as weapons as you can and then click on an enemy city to battle with. You have to use your imagination on what the battle will look like because sadly, Lord of Ultima does not animate any action for you. Still, this does not mean Lord of Ultima is a bad game as it’s the strategy part that is the main allure of the game. Strategy is why many RTS games are popular with gamers in the first place.

Graphically, Lord of Ultima has nice views and the city and interface layout is neat and clean. The buildings are rendered with great detail and the world view doesn’t look too small either. When it comes to some RTS video games, I feel that the view is too small and it’s hard to see which buildings I’m clicking on. Thankfully, I did not encounter such a problem like this while playing Lord of Ultima.

Another great thing about Lord of Ultima is its audio. Most other free to play RTS games are boring because they lack any type of audio. This isn’t the case with this game because you can hear the birds singing which adds a nice peaceful atmosphere to the game. There is also some great music playing as well.

Overall, Lord of Ultima offers nothing special to the RTS genre, but it’s still a fun little game to play if you have some free time in the weekend. The graphics and audio is nice and the layout of the entire game is great to look at as well. I would have preferred if the combat system was more action orientated, but I’m sure this is just a small flaw that most RTS veterans will bypass. Still, if you have a computer and want to play an addictive RTS game one day, Lord of Ultima is one game that i worth checking out.