Wizardry 8 has some of his soul in it... unfortunately I believe he was the driving force for the Wizardry series and since he left during the early stages of developement of W8 (to do WW) it lost some of it's luster for me
It's still a good game with a fairly dificult combat system. It does have too much emphasis on "modern" weaponry but the old hack and slash still has it's merits in it. The puzzles aren't all that bad and the storyline is contiguous with W6&W7 which is actually nice.