Ultima Underworld The Stygian Abyss PLAYER'S GUIDE
The player's guide is 32 pages long and is included with copies of Ultima Underworld: The Stygian Abyss, sometimes as a physical paperback book and sometimes as a PDF file.
Description[edit]
It's a book, coming with the game, was deemed a must-have due to the entirely new type of game it represented, as well as the high complexity coming with it. It goes into extensive detail about the character creation, how to actually control the game and interact with the surroundings, combat and the magic system. Following that is a section with general gameplay tips and a list of all the known spells as well as an explanation of the various skills.
Other Editions[edit]
The guide was included without alteration in the Underworld Series. The European editions of the book are the same as the original one with no translation work being done, though instead of red ink, black ink is being used for the cover. The Japanese versions for the PC-98 and FM-Towns are identical to each other, despite being from two different companies. They sport a new cover and the content is translated to Japanese. A translated version of the guide for Taiwan does exist as well.
The GOG version of the book, compared to the version archived on replacementdocs, is missing most of the text on the first page. This section is titled Starting the Game and begins with a four step summary to install and launch the game from MS-DOS. The section then walks the player through the game introduction, title screen, main menu, and finally to the Create a Character option, continued in the next section on the next page. Both documents are identical from the second to the thirty second and last page, but the replacementdocs.com one has a copyright notice appearing after the last page that the GOG version does not have.
Alternate Covers[edit]
European cover
Japanese cover
GOG version first page
replacementdocs.com version first page
Gallery[edit]
game name, seen on page 1
illustration of scroll, seen on page 8
illustration of food, seen on page 9
illustration of runes, seen on page 11
illustration of bags, seen on page 12
illustration of a tapistry, seen on page 15
illustration of armor, seen on page 23
illustration of shrine, seen on page 26
External Links[edit]
- replacementdocs.com (PDF)
- bootstrike.com (HTML) Electronic Form Document Created and Produced by Boba Fet.
- The player's guide (PDF)
- European player's guide (PDF)
- Japanese player's guide (PDF)
- Italian player's guide (PDF) Manuale del giocatore
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