Withstand the Fury Dragon wrote a review of Ultima 6 for the CRPG Player's Handbook, and a preview of the article is available online.
Read about Ultima 6 at "CRPG History Abridged - 21 RPGs that brought something new to the table", by Felipe Pepe for Gamasutra (25th June 2015).
The MS-DOS Project's 45-minute Ultima VI: The False Prophet Review discusses just about every aspect of the game including the plot, controls, dialogue, combat, sound, and more.
Yulo Tomorrow wrote about her experience playing Ultima 6 in her post "My personal Ultima VI experience: another timeless fun journey" (8th December 2020) on Reddit.
| Docwise Dragon's opinion (29th December 2020): |
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I think Ultima 6 is really the game that marked my youth the most. I played for the first time when I was a student on an old Toshiba laptop with a 2-color backlit LCD screen. No hard drive, you had to change the floppy disks at each fight and when entering the dungeons. There was no forum. I didn't know about tricks like the famous ALT 213 key combination, but I was determined to see the story through to the end. Left to my own devices, I had to use what I could to get through this huge plot on my own. Through perseverance, I was able to finish the story after more than a year. I must admit that I had never been captivated by a game like this one. In each episode, it is a whole art to discover this moral so dear to Lord British. "...And you will never turn away from the path of the Virtues...". It's fantastic to embody a hero and to obey this morality. I think that each of us secretly dreams of becoming an Avatar... |
| Balron Dragon's opinion (27th December 2020): |
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I thought it was the outright best of the Ultima's. Quest of the Avatar was a challenge, Heroes of Destiny was hard, and False Prophet was the hardest of the enlightenment trilogy. Also seeing the gargoyles for the first time as a good race made me feel bad since they perceived your character as the bad guy. And gave me an obsession with the gargoyle people because of their design by the famous artist Denis Loubet. :3 I have been a fan of Ultima since U3 and seeing his original art, but u6 made me a true fan of the series. |
| Soryu Dragon's opinion (27th December 2020): |
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At the time of release Ultima VI was revolutionary. Visual and audio where next level in a CRPG. The game was fabulous as well as the story line itself. It was my first Ultima that I’ve ever played. I was amazed at the interactivity that you can experience. The internal soundtrack is by far my favourite. I would play the music from the main menu and let it loop over and over as I did simple tasks at home, like cleaning... I still play it to this day. |