Posted on: May 23, 2013
Kjaama
Games: 73 Reviews: 5
Poor First Person RPG
I had Wizardry 8 recommended to me by several other rpg fans, but I found it to be a very lacking game that lacks the quality of the other rpgs of its age. It starts positive, with a superb party creation system, and adds to this an excellent scope of tactical positioning that other FPRPGs could do well to learn from. However the combat scales horribly (fighting one group of mobs will always be easy, two always hard, and three always impossible); the graphics, while not an important feature, have dated horribly to compared to other games of the time; the setting feels profoundly ill-thought-through; what story there is lacks any depth or quality; and the questing system is both desperately unintuitive and profoundly unrewarding. I had to use a guide from the first town, only to find out that the advancement of the MAIN quest required breaking into what appeared to be a random house without any hint that I was to do this. Personally, I enjoyed it far less than M&M7 or Morrowind, both of which I find deeply flawed, and it really doesn't hold a candle to any of the isometric rpgs of the time. However, many people do love it, so it can't be totally without merit, but I recommend tempering your expectations if you are to play it.
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