Welcome to the board, Axe-Lord!!!
I always find questions like this difficult to answer since game preferences can vary so much from person to person.
W&W is one of the best games I have played in years. I like that you can have a party of up to 6 characters and that there is a lot of flexibility in how you develop them as you play. I like that the game world is not so huge or complicated as to get to be a chore. I like the game world, the feel of being in the world and seeing it through a first person point of view. W&W is more like the Wizardry and perhaps the Might & Magic series than it is like BG or Kings Quest (it isn't anything like KQ).
My impression from following this board for so long is that people who really love the BG series tend to not like W&W but there are exceptions. These days W&W is usually found at bargain rates so I don't think you can go very wrong by at least giving it a try.
Wyv
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