Or: No, it's not a port.

As you travel through the islands, a rich fantasy world unfolds before you. Exploring the islands you'll fight off savage creatures of all shapes and sizes, wielding over forty different types of vicious weapons. Wandering the towns you'll meet over eighty different characters, each with their own unique personality. You'll talk to them and help them solve their problems - because maybe they'll help you in return. You'll master over fifty different mystical psionic abilities, each causing a unique effect on the world around you.

Odyssey represents an incredible advance in Macintosh role- playing games. Because it has a rich, non-linear story you'll never be stuck: you can always go on to explore different islands and meet different people. And with an intuitive Macintosh interface, you won't have to waste any time learning how to play.

On the journey home, a violent storm rips apart your ship, tossing you into the ocean depths. Frantically struggling to stay afloat your pushed onto a strange island. Lost in the storm are all your possessions, including your precious staff.

But something is rotten on the island you find yourself on. Brutal monsters and epic challenges stand between you, the staff, and salvation for your people. Only after exploring the islands and communicating with the troubled people will you be able to understand the legend of Nemesis. Only then can your quest be concluded and your homeland saved.

• Playable on any Macintosh II or better with 8-bit graphics, 12" or larger monitor, 2.5 MB free RAM (4MB total RAM).
  
  
• PowerPC Native (screamingly fast).
  
  
• Detailed 256 color graphics, including color-table animation effects.
  
  
• Classical Piano Soundtrack featuring the works of Bach, Rachmaninov, Chopin, Brahms, and others. 18 tracks in all, nearly two hours of music.
  
  
• Stereo sound effects.
  
  
• Intuitive Macintosh interface, with simple inventory management and drag-and-drop capabilities.
  
  
• Rich, non-linear story, featuring intriguing subplots, unique puzzles with alternate solutions, and multiple endings based on the player's choices.
  
  
• Story slowly unfolds for the player through over forty books to find and read, as well as eighty non-player characters (NPCs) to meet and talk with.
  
  
• Fully fleshed-out fantasy world with nine full islands to explore.
  
  
• Several Hundred Hours worth of gameplay for those who want it - shorter paths to the ending for those who prefer.
  
  
• Sophisticated Artificial Intelligence which allows NPCs to live their own lives.
  
  
• Fifty different psionic abilities and forty varieties of weapons with which to fight over forty classes of monsters.
  
  
• Detailed on-line descriptions of all weapons, psionics, armors, shields, and other objects.
  
  
• Automapping which remembers all locations the player has visited.
  
  
• Built-in Adventurer's Journal, which allows the player to keep on-line notes.
  

"The best Mac fantasy role playing game I've ever played."
- Alexander Seropian, Founder, Bungie Software.

"Odyssey: The Legend of Nemesis is the heir apparent of the mantle of the soul of Lord British. It has all the things that made an Ultima an Ultima: clean, crisp characterizations, multiple subplots, non-linear action and multiple solves for most puzzles, wry and often dry humor, and an interface so tight and sharp you could bounce quarters off of it... The writers of Odyssey have their heads on straight. They are approaching a fantasy role-playing game first by a series of interesting storylines, second by a simple interface that does not get in the way of unfolding the story, and third by weaving a story that is non-liner, unforced, and ultimately extremely satisfying. Bravo!"
- Inside Mac Games, March 1996.

"Excelent work. Your blending of intricate plot into the game play was as well done as I've seen. I'm about to start Exile III... the yardstick's been raised."
- Jeff Vogel, creator of the fine Exile I & II
(Done with Odyssey? Go get Exile)

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Still not convinced? Perhaps looking at some lovely screenshots will sway you. Or perhaps you'd care to download the Demo Version ? You know you want to, you really do.





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