U7 is beautiful <sigh> the 2 D graphics <melt> - the interaction with environment (e.g. making bread by adding flour+water to create dough, then shoving it into the oven). I liked it very much. It was a DOS game, worked only with PIF in my case - there is supposed to be an emulation for Win XP (as I played it on Win95), but I never tried that.
I liked the story soooooo much, even if U7.2 was a bit sinister (all my friends were dead or mad). I loved my companions Iolo (bard) the 2 knights. If you wanted to cast spells, you needed to find ingredients for this (pearls, mandrake, nightshade etc.) you could have a nice transport over water via your own ship! And overland with your own flying carpet.
Combat was in RL mode.
Kiya
I heard U6 is better, but I never got it - I didn't want to buy the Ultima collection, just to play that one. And I was disappointed by the later Ultimas (8-Ascension). Why? Well, I couldn't play a female ava there.
