Posted on: June 30, 2014

Neolithicwolf

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Incredible Story

The story is fantastic. If you're primarily playing for the story you will definitely be delighted. The combat, however, is somewhat lackluster. The 'rock paper scissors' model they attempted falls flat and gets incredibly boring after you've done it 3000 times. There are areas where monsters respawn over and over and all you want to do is pull your hair out and wish for a 'sneak' button. It was really really nice not to have an inventory to worry about and it worked out well. I've asked myself a hundred times why I'm finding rat spit and ogre dung instead of just coin, and why the bandit mercenaries that have robbed thousands of gold only have 12 silver a piece on them. That's all eliminated in this game and believe me, you will NOT miss it. Overall, my only disappointment was the repetitive and boring combat. Everything else, voice acting, inventory, story, quests, side quests, leveling mechanism, it all worked well. If they did a sequel, I'd only like better combat and a little more complexity in the statistic system. Everything else is five stars.

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Posted on: July 8, 2022

Drejzer

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Spiele: 928 Rezensionen: 13

Wuxia-themed Bioware RPG

Jade Empire is a fantasy RPG, with demons, ghosts, martial arts, magic, firework-propelled aircrafts and huge dose of "vaguely oriental" themes. It still looks and sounds beautifull, even if the graphics ar erather dated. The game runs on the same engine as kotor (And, from what I've heard still uses turns "under the hood"), but is more real-time action oriented. Theough it is much *much* lighter on the RPG elements, Uses 3 stats, which determine a buch of stuff, the equipment is "pick 3 items that grant me bonuses I want" (later on you can equip more of them) There are multiple "styles", each having a light attack chain. a heavy attack and an AoE attack. Styles are separated into: physical straight up damage dealing (they also finish "combnations"); Support - debuffs and opening "combinations"; Magical - ranged attacks using up chi (which also can be used to heal or deal more damage); Weapon - they use a weapon bigger damage, attacks use up Focus (bullet time you can use basically at will), as well as Transformations, which let you well, transform into one of several forms. The combinations can be used to spawn health/chi/focus pickups on killing the target, which is their only use. Also, now you have only one companion at a time, in one of 2 modes: attack or support, attack is rather straightforward, they will fight together with you (and they ar erather useless), support on the other hand makes them buff the player, some regenerate resources, some increase damage dealt with certain styles. It presents a unique moral framework, based on the martial arts philosophies described in the tutorial... but almost immediately shallows it into old "good" and "evil", which is a tremendous shame. The game is also linear, at few points allowing you to choose in which order to do the current selections of subgoals. It is a fresh breath of novelty between all the typical western fantasy settings. On a side note: I recommend using the "Jade Empire in Style" mod

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Posted on: May 22, 2025

Catootea

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Spiele: 134 Rezensionen: 2

Preserved by GOG

I'll edit the review once I've played more, just wanted to say I couldn't get this game to launch on the EA app (same with many other games tbh), but the GOG version easily works for me. Support GOG and get your old games on here.

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Posted on: June 14, 2013

Myiven

Spiele: 197 Rezensionen: 2

So short, so sad

The visuals, the direction, and the narrative made me feel like I was playing a martial arts epic. Not a cheesy one either, a really, *really* good one. Unfortunately it was painfully short. It begged for about twice as much material. I didn't find it had any replay value either. Would have been five stars otherwise.

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Posted on: December 21, 2017

IamWhatIam69

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Spiele: 239 Rezensionen: 5

Console KOTOR with an asian setting

Listen, i get it. Jade Empire has its flaws. Its limited. Its not going to appease a lot of Old School Bioware fans that need their deep DnD system. But this game right here still has Old School Bioware written all over it. Its systems may not have been the deepest but they are far from shallow. The world and its lore are beautifully realized, the characters are memorable, the quests interesting, the dialogue is great, there are minigames and overall this is very much a "console KOTOR with an asian setting." For all the things that Jade Empire did wrong the things it did right it did well enough to have reached cult classic status in the hearts of some gamers (such as myself). If you like games like Knights of the Old Republic and you appreciate games like Mass Effect but think they could use a bit more of an oldschool approach when it comes to roleplaying your character then you should absolutely give this game a try. Because of nitpick reasons and limitations that a lot of new and old games both acclaimed and disliked also share the game has never got the attention it deserves. No its nothing for hardcore RPG fans. Its nothing for CRPG fans that need a deep DnD esque System but its certainly not a shallow piece of work. One can tell its a game that came out between Kotor and Mass Effect. Its kind of oldschool Bioware and its kind of newschool Bioware. Just love the game for what it is and dont hate it for what it isnt. Kotor Fans are surely going to enjoy this one.. if you can live with hack n slash esque combat. You dont think this can be called an RPG? fine. I mean you are wrong but okay. Dont call it an RPG then. I call it a great game.

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