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Site Navigation Main    News    Forums Games    Games Database    Top 100    Release List    Support Files Features    Reviews    Previews    Interviews    Editorials    Diaries    Misc Download    Gallery    Music    Screenshots    Videos Miscellaneous    Staff Members    Privacy Statement   Lukewarm Wizardry 8 Review at IGN.PC (PC: Single-Player RPG) | Posted by Rendelius @ Saturday - December 15, 2001 - 05:04 - Top | Game Info | Rate this game | Homepage | Screenshots It's the first one I have seen that doesn't praise Wizardry 8 - IGN.PC has written a a review that awards the game with just 7.5/10. Main complaints are graphics and the combat system. Here's the thing about graphics: So there I was. I'd made my party, I clicked and switched and fiddled around until I had just the right portrait, voice, personality, and profession for every member of my team, and I was ready to rock and/or roll. I fired up the game engine, and entered the world. And stepped back into 1997. Look, I don't consider graphics more important than gameplay. I still play X-COM: UFO Defense and some other old relics because they remain great games. But my first reaction, when some mashed-down little crab scuttled up to my party and clicked its clackers at me, was outright laughter. These are horribly dated, butt-ugly graphics, folks, and anyone who says anything different is profoundly ignorant as to the state of gaming technology today. But that's what happens when you leave a game too long in development. Yes, it's true that RPGs take longer to develop, and graphics can suffer as a result, but they shouldn't look this bad, and a lengthy development time isn't a valid excuse. Look at the early stuff for Morrowind, or even at EverQuest, which is a fairly old online RPG but still looks worlds better and beyond this.

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