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Weapon mastery allows the player to do maximum damage with all weapons, and gives the player a free second turn from time to time. Blacksmith – a physically powerful character who gains the ability to work metals into weapons and armor. The blacksmith is able to forge The Runesword, a powerful, one-of-a-kind weapon.
[and] for better or for worse, Underworld moved the text-based RPG out of the realm of imagination and into the third dimension". [26] Its soundtrack, composed by George "The Fat Man" Sanger and Dave Govett, [11] was the first in a major first-person game to use a dynamic music system; the player's actions alter the game's music. [50]
Rock, Paper, Shotgun described it as a "beautiful game about selfless, old-fashioned heroism that brilliantly captures the spirit of Quest for Glory", [6] PC Gamer claimed it "goes above and beyond most free adventure games/RPGs by offering "over 100 hand-painted backgrounds", voice acting, a neat auto-mapping function, along with optional sidequests and multiple ways to approach many quests ...
The second spin-off series, Ultima Underworld, consisted of three games with a first-person perspective: Set after Ultima VI, Ultima Underworld: The Stygian Abyss sees the Avatar descending into the Great Stygian Abyss to rescue a Britannian baron's kidnapped daughter and prevent the summoning of a powerful demon.
Ragnarok: Norsehelm: Fantasy: DOS: Large graphical multi-zoned world featuring multiple classes, complex item interactions, crafting, quests, and numerous skills, abilities, powers, and effects. 1992: 2023: UnReal World: Sami Maaranen: Wilderness survival, historical: DOS, LIN, OSX, WIN: Graphical roguelike set in the far north during the late ...
Tomb Raider: Underworld is an action-adventure video game developed by Crystal Dynamics and published by Eidos Interactive for Windows, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Wii and Nintendo DS in November 2008. Later versions were released for mobile in December 2008, PlayStation 2 in 2009, and OS X in 2012.
Persephone – The former Queen of the Underworld and main antagonist of Chains of Olympus. Bitter at being abandoned to the Underworld by her fellow gods, Persephone entered into an alliance with Morpheus and then freed and used the Titan Atlas to capture the god Helios, intending to use Helios' power to destroy the Pillar of the World.
The nature of the quest differs; sometimes an object or the rescue of a loved one is sought, while in other stories knowledge and secret revelations is the goal. The ability to enter the realm of the dead while still alive, and to return, is proof of the classical hero's exceptional status as more than mortal.