Per Tananda's question:
1) No character gen in the demo...it ships with 6 pregen characters, all at level 5. You can start play pretty well immediately.
2) Character gen is supposedly going to be a lot less "hairy" in Wiz 8 than it was in the previous versions of Wizardry. It can be fairly entailed, as well. In the demo, you can't change the portraits or sound files, but you can do so in the real game. You will also be able to customize portraits and sounds if you like such as in the Black Isle games...to an extent, from what I understand.
Cheers,
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