Step into the role of an aspiring martial-arts master and follow the path of the open palm or the closed fist. In this multi-award-winning action-RPG, your choices and actions will determine the fate of the entire Jade Empire. Will you prevent the destruction of this beautiful land, or will you crush it beneath your heel? Are you a warrior who uses his strength and fighting mastery to bring peace, or will you instead use your power to bring pain and ruin?
The choice is yours.
The Original Award Winning Jade Empire
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Posted on: June 11, 2013
ReadWriteGame
Verified ownerGames: 229 Reviews: 4
Amazing Bioware RPG but too Short
Put Simply, this game is amazing. It has all of the powerful story telling, decision making, characters, and rpg elements Bioware is famous for. However, it feels much too short. At what I thought was about the half way point through the game, the game ended. Great game. Worth the money. Just be prepared to feel like it ended way too soon.
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Posted on: August 25, 2015
Klanak
Verified ownerGames: 132 Reviews: 2
Underrated gem
Finished Jade Empire three times a few years ago and now I am addicted again. Apart from Gothic I+II, this game has the best atmosphere I ve seen so far. Setting is clearly oriental, but has nothing to do with anime (dont get me wrong, I love anime style), it is more like classic kung fu movies. Yes, combat can be boring if you dont experiment with styles and harmonic combos, but I love the way there is no warrior/mage/thief and you are rewarded for using everything you have - weapons, magic, fists or even tranformation into demons. Story is great and I was literary cought off guard a few times, even though many people will surely find the plot predictable. And there are some great side quests you dont want to miss. Seriously, if you like RPGs, fighting, good stories, chinese culture, or even one of these things, just grab the game for that price and give it a chance. One of the biggest advantage of Jade Empire is that it is quite unique and you will find no such experience in any other game.
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Posted on: September 17, 2016
eberg
Verified ownerGames: 93 Reviews: 2
Fun... until bugs stop the game
This game is enormously fun & engaging, but I have run into three really unpleasant bugs that deserve to be the focus of my review. I will present them in the order that I encountered them: 1.) Occasionally the viewpoint will switch from forward to straight down. Even more rarely, it will switch back on its own, but more often I have reset it by moving to a different map. Not the most fun workaround in the world, but that still makes this bug the least intractable of the three. 2.) People that are supposed to attack me instead stand around being all neutral and invulnerable, with no conversation. Two of these people blocking a path ended my first playthrough; I physically could not get my character to the place where act 2 finishes. Backing up to a previous scene did not open the path. On my second playthrough I experienced the same bug in a different (and non-blocking) location. 3.) On my second playthrough, shortly after the end of act 1, the framerate dropped to <10fps. This is (ahem) highly incompatible with the quick and decisive real-time combat mechanics. I will also be submitting this list to GOG directly, and hopefully I will be able to write and updated 4- or 5-star review on some future date. In the meantime, people who might buy this game deserve to know. P.S.: My system is brand new as of July 2016, runs win-10 on an AMD A10-9600P with Radeon R5 graphics.
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Posted on: April 10, 2017
MrFoxer
Verified ownerGames: 129 Reviews: 8
Experimental
This game feels very experimental. Sure it's got your standard Bioware mechanics like decision-making, romance, parties etc. but the lore is horribly shallow and the game's world is a confusing mish-mash of different influences. The story is your standard "you're the chosen one and you gotta save the world" and perhaps Bioware took this too seriously because there are basically no consequences for killing everyone you meet, despite being repeatedly told that messing with the wrong people is dangerous. The voice acting is also extremely hit and miss. Some characters just sound awful and few if any even have a remotely Asian accent. I appreciate Bioware's attempt at replacing the terrible turnbased combat of KOTOR, but the Jade Empire's combat is just garbage. Upgrade one skill to the max then just mash left mouse until the enemy dies and repeat with the next. You can even get a gun at one point which you can upgrade to absolutely cheese the more difficult bosses without even getting hit once. On the bright side, Jack Wall did an absolutely phenomenal job with the soundtrack to the game, which is graciously included with the GOG edition.
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Posted on: June 5, 2025
Kira_Daisy_Jones
Games: 149 Reviews: 6
A very unique experience (if it works)
I never experienced any bugs with this game. I know a lot of people had issues, bugs, even game-breaking bugs, or the game would simply not start for them. I think the GoG version is the best version of the game, but be warned. When it does work though it's an amazing action game, the martial arts aspect is surprisingly deep and balanced with many different fights challenging your mastery in various ways. The choice of which martial arts styles to focus on feels very meaningful and deeply impacts how the gameplay feels. This makes the game surprisingly replayable. The story is hard to surpass. This action game has a better story than most "story-rich" games published in the last decade. The downsides of the game (bringing it down from a hypothetical 7 stars to a mere 5 stars) in my eyes are: The end game railroads you a bit which is an unwelcome change after the very free, hub-based early and mid-game that offers a lot of choice. I know a lot of games do this, but I felt the balance was a bit off in JE, perhaps the game could have used one last hub somehow combining the areas of the 5th and 6th chapters. The new game + feature (Jade Master) is generally fun, but especially the bossfights involve a lot of repeated moves that are hard on the fingers. Still overall an amazing game and well worth at least one play-through!
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