Wizardry 8 has a poor combat system, horrible graphics, and unintiuitive gameplay... not really worth playing.
Wizardry 8 is a first-person RPG with a rich environment and many hours of play. However, the good elements and many quests are overshadowed by the combat system, which will be discussed below.
Negatives:
I really wanted to like Wizardry 8, but several factors kept me from liking it. The main factor out of those is the combat system, which is utterly pathetic. I will sum it up for your with the following: Imagine you are facing 10 Rapax berserkers in the game,each at 400 hp and hitting 3-4 times / turn, while you have 6 party members, each at 150 hp, and hitting 1-2 times / turn. These Rapax are supported by 5 spellcasters in the back that you cant reach because you're surrounded!!! And in the time that your party struggles to kill even one monster, they have already gotten 50 hits on you!
No thanks, I'd rather fight one or two hard monsters at a time than 15 moderate monsters. At least with the one or two I'd get to do something. Compounding the problem is that you are supposed to control 6-8 characters from a first person view only, never seeing them... so during combat things can get confusing and you may lose rounds just trying to figure out how to attack without losing too much blood.
The other negative about Wizardry 8 that stands out is the poot graphics. Even for 2001, these Quake 2 engine graphics are ugly and boxy. There is hardly any rich environment to gaze upon such as in Morrowind.
And then these developers did not polish the game completely, considering the inventory system is cumbersome and unintuitive, with too many obscure buttons.
Overall:
Overall, this is not really a good game. A game similar to this, Morrowind, is much better and I would easily recommend that game many times over. This one, stay the hell away from it!!