Martian Dreams
| Ultima: Worlds of Adventure 2: Martian Dreams | |
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| Developer(s) | Origin Systems |
| Publisher(s) | Origin Systems |
| Distributor(s) | GOG.com |
| Producer(s) | Warren Spector |
| Designer(s) | Jeff George |
| Composer(s) | Dana Karl Glover |
| Platform(s) | DOS |
| Release date(s) | 1991 |
| Genre(s) | Role-playing video game |
| Mode(s) | Single-player |
Ultima: Worlds of Adventure 2: Martian Dreams is a role-playing video game set in the Ultima series, published in 1991. It uses the same engine as Ultima VI, as did the first Worlds of Ultima game, The Savage Empire.
The game has an extensive cast of Victorian Era people, including Marie Curie, Buffalo Bill, Rasputin, Sigmund Freud, Andrew Carnegie, Nikola Tesla, and C. L. Blood.
After the events in the Savage Empire, the Avatar is visited by a strange red-haired woman that gives a book to him and his friend Dr. Spector. The book will eventually be written by Spector himself, and explains how to use the Orb of the Moons to travel through time. Following instructions, the duo ends up in the Victorian Era, where Percival Lowell has set up a space cannon that will launch some volunteers to Mars.
Through an act of sabotage, the cannon is fired during the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, with several dozen famous people and leaders of the time on board. A second cannon is prepared to find and recover the people in the first, who are now stranded on Mars.
It turns out that Mars had an extensive civilization based on plants. Most monsters the player encounters are so-called "plantimals", such as the Jumping Bean and the Planther. Mars has cities and canals, although the civilization is in ruins, so the player's first tasks are restoring the world power station, and melting enough of the polar caps (with a solar lens) to fill the canals.
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