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 c...
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
An incredible, engaging story that makes you the noble hero or the treacherous villain!
A wealth of fascinating characters to interact with.
Beautiful, mysterious lands to explore, discover, and save...or conquer.
A rich blend of role-playing and exciting real-time combat.
New monsters and enemies.
New fighting styles.
Customizable, intuitive controls including support for game-pads and keyboard/mouse.
Increased graphics resolutions and new visual effects.
A neat classic BioWare game. It has morality systems like in Mass Effect and extra difficulty level after the first completion, so replayabilty is a great aspect of this game. Lore is fun to explore and characters are pretty interesting at times. Combat isn't as fluid as you would like it to be, especially at early stages of the game, but you can combine different fighting styles and debuffes for cool combos. Overall a fun experience if you don't mind the dated graphics.
I bought my copy of the Jade Empire special edition for the PC some years back, and thought it enjoyable; its flaws were outweighed by the pure merit of the game being set in the magical Asian mythos. However, I would agree with the opinions which state that this beautiful interactive wuxia feels a bit rushed and/or is too short. Unfortunately... which brilliant RPGs were truly finished before being released? Even classics like PT or BG were released before the developers truly finished what they had planned, robbing us of even greater games that might have been... to not even mention KOTOR2 or DA2. Jade Empire faired comparatively better than those two. I'd say enjoy the game for what it is, and what it is is still quality entertainment set in an unique world nothing akin to which, to my best knowledge, has been attempted before or after in the genre.
I sure enjoyed this one and would recommend to all BioWare fans and Kung-Fu lovers out there. If not the story then the battle system is what sets this apart from the rest BioWare games and i mean that in a good way. Not that theres anything wrong with their other titles, its just that Jade Empire is unique in its own way and deserves your attention even years later after its original release, I honestly think its underrated. Only flaw that comes to my mind is that sometimes, battles are more tedious rather than challenging so think twice before cranking up that difficulty setting all the way to the max, like i did -.- Sometimes i had to do around 50 or even more full attacks to kill certain bosses, but other than that the game was really appealing.
Oh and, great job GoG team, i had 0 problems with this game ;)
I'd never heard of Jade Empire until a few months ago when I noticed it on the GoG store. As a massive fan of most Bioware games, I immediately added it to my wishlist and went on to pick it up during the next sale, the game is after all, over 10 years old and a $20 AUD price tag seemed steep especially on my budget.
I was horrified by my initial boot of the game, with an almost constant stuttering and a horrendous frame rate, it was barely playable. I was close to returning the game, but I persevered and found a few guides to fixing the performance of the game. After some edits to the .ini and some forceful setting applications via my GPU software, I reduced the performance issues only slightly. Any time my character moves the animation is stuttered and the frame rate drops significantly if I move the camera even at the slightest speed. I feel somewhat nauseous when I play the game at length. After all that work, I refused to go quietly.
I continued past a painfully jarring opening sequence, the combat takes some getting used to, especially with the issues I was having. But after a while, I finally felt it was worth it. This game is amazing, the world is beautiful despite the age, not to mention strange and interesting. No game has felt as imaginative since my first time with Morrowind. After getting used to the performance issues, I soon become engrossed in the combat. I try to imagine a version of this game where my character can fly between enemies and perform punches and kicks without stuttered animations and a decent frame rate, but even without that the combat is the most refreshing I have experienced in years. It's a contender for the best combat in any RPG I have ever played. It has all the usual Bioware charm and a fantastically written story. The characters are engaging and the plot itself is extremely well executed.
My only lament is that I could not experience what is surely a masterpiece at its full glory, I ask the GoG gods to please right these wrongs.
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