An Orb of the Moons (same as in the intro).The release of Ultima VI included these things with the game: The game was included in several compilations: It was voted "Best Role-Playing Game of the Year" by Computer Gaming Magazine in 1991. Ultima VI got very good reviews, and sold quite well for Origin. Arnold, who had previously composed all Ultima music. This was also the last Ultima to give credit to Kenneth W.
Now it was possible to even play music on technologies better than FM-synthesis.
Previously, music was limited to hardware such as the Mockingboard and Commodore's SID chip. Ultima VI represented a major change in Ultima music.
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It's very hard to find, but because of its full speech, it has become sought after by many Ultima fans.
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Otherwise, the FM-Towns version is, for the most part, the same as the original PC version. Not all of Origin's staff was available at the time of the recording, however, so a few substitutes were needed. Lord British is, for example, voiced by Richard Garriott. Interestingly enough, many of the characters are voiced by their real-life counterparts in the English speech. There also exists a port for the FM-Towns (a Japanese computer) with full speech in both Japanese and English. (For more information, see SNES-Port of Ultima VI) On the other hand, its display is fullscreen, and features much smoother scrolling animation while moving and a better framerate than the PC version. The port for the Super NES system looks graphically much like the PC port, but has a much more complicated control scheme, no character portraits, and has a modified conversation-system, with some censorship due to Nintendo's corporate policies. (More about the conversion here: C64-Port of Ultima VI) However, this version had a very complicated method of controlling the game, much reduced graphical-quality, almost no music (apart from the beginning and endgame) and several cuts to content (fewer spells and items). Origin was able to squeeze this huge game, without changes in the game engine, onto three double-sided disks. The only 8-bit port is for the Commodore 64 computer. The 16-bit ports for the Atari ST and the Amiga were basically the same, but had far fewer colors, worse music, and used a large, inconvenient number of floppy disks, which would serve to put off some players. This is the first time an Ultima was developed on a 16-bit computer (namely the IBM PC), and not the Apple II. And so, peace is again restored to the troubled land. The Avatar sends the Codex back into the Void, where no one can claim it, but leaving two special lenses, one to each King, which must be used together to continue to read its wisdom and learn the truth. Traveling to the Realm of the Gargoyles to set things straight, the Avatar realizes that the Codex of Ultimate Wisdom is both the biggest point of bitterness between the two races, and the only voice of reason they will listen to. They think the Avatar is their legendary " False Prophet," come to kill them all, as their homeland slowly collapses more with each day. But a strange book from the sacrifice-scene and a mysterious Silver Tablet reveal a horrible secret: The Gargoyles aren't really evil, they are desperate. Freed at the last minute, the hero starts to fight back, and frees the shrines and Moonstones from the Gargoyles, effectively chasing them out of Britannia. In this situation, the Avatar is lured to Britannia by a red Moongate, and nearly sacrificed by the Gargoyles. The war has lasted for some years, and the Gargoyles have captured the shrines, stealing the Moonstones. From what remains of the Underworld, strange creatures called Gargoyles arise, starting a war against the humans of Britannia. Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.Īfter the rescue of Lord British and the mostly-complete collapse of the Underworld, Britannia seems to have found peace again, but it doesn't last for long. Music support is available for the first time in the PC version. Castles, towns and dungeons are in the same scale as the overworld, unlike previous Ultimas, where entering any of these places would move the player to a separate, differently-scaled map.Įvery character now has a portrait when spoken to, the inventory is now graphical, the game is mouse-driven, and the characters and story have become more complex and mature than they were in Ultima V. Though the graphics are tile-based, the tiles are integrated in a way that doesn't make them so independent from each other, but only as parts of the bigger world. Gone are the notorious tiled graphics, different scales, and 3D dungeons from all previous Ultimas Everything is now shown from a isometric perspective, with attention to detail in a seamless world, making Britannia look much more realistic. There are big changes in the graphics and gameplay of Ultima VI when compared to previous games.
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