Jade Empire Special Edition

List Price: $39.99 Discount Price: $4.35

Features:

• An incredible, engaging story that makes you the noble hero. or the treacherous villain!
• Many fascinating characters to interact with
• Beautiful, mysterious lands to explore, discover, and save. or conquer
• Rich blend of role-playing and exciting real-time combat
• Enhanced for the PC! PC version includes the entire original game with additional content in the form of new monsters, combat styles and combat re-balancing for extra challenge, and new items. The mysterious world of Jade Empire comes to life with beautiful high-resolution graphics and new visual effects and details

Customer Reviews:

An excellent game. [Posted on 2007-03-30]
Jade Empire Jade Empire Special Edition (Rhino Demon Exclusive Content) is one of the best RPG games around. The fight system is simple, but still can be quite challenging on advanced settings. The Companion characters can be hilarious although most are not terribly useful. The storyline is creative and complex. It's very linear but allows an exceptional amount of player choice. Player choices really can alter the outcome of the game quite a bit. I'm bored quite easily, yet this is one of the few games that I've played through more than once. The special edition has a few options and in-game items that don't exist in the other versions.

Looks great - nice balance [Posted on 2007-04-27]
The fighting system in this game is a nice balance of "arcade style" (click a lot) and more of an RPG style like Neverwinter Nights (the character does a lot of the basic fighting on its own). I think they did much better than Oblivion, for example, which I find frustrating to control. The graphics are some of the best I have seen and the faces look really good. In fact, the women are quite attractive and the shaping and movement is good enough that they read as very athletic young women. The way hair and clothes move is very good as well. Although the core story is pretty standard stuff, I thought there were some nice innovations and details. If you like martial arts movies, you are quite likely to enjoy this game.

Cutscene after cutscene.. more like watching an animated movie. [Posted on 2007-05-20]
If you like watching animated movies, especially foreign Asian animation, you might like this game because that is what you do in Jade Empire. If you like some good button mashing and then watching cutscene after cutscene after cutscene, then this might be the game for you. I like SOME cutscenes in my games, but too many will take me out of the immersion factor. Also, the graphics in Jade Empire just feel cartoony.

Your character fights scripted linear enemies and then triggers another cutscene. Then your silent voiced character will have choices of dialog to select from leading eventually down the path of good or evil. Once you choose your dialog, you continue to the next cutsene. I just couldn't get into this game no matter how hard I tried.

Nice!! [Posted on 2007-05-31]
A truly fine RPG and a real treat for anybody who played and enjoyed KOTOR 1. Jade Empire has all the Bioware trademarks: Good graphics, a fine story, great dialog, romance, challenging combat (on higher settings) and interesting characters/locations. Like KOTOR, it has two paths to follow (something like good and evil), plot twists and even the ability to completely change your alignment near the end. Some people say it's "cartoonish", but I definitely don't agree. Rather I think it tries to impart a sense of another culture's mythology, and it succeeds beautifully in my opinion. Think Titan Quest if you want an example (or Star Wars for that matter). I did almost everything in the game, and it took me about 30 hours to complete. There are a lot of cut scenes, but they can be easily skipped by pressing the ESC key. If dialog screens bother you, you shouldn't be playing this type of game in the first place. It's really a shame that it took so long for Bioware to port Jade Empire to the PC. It would have been much more popular if it had come out a year ago. Even so, I count this as among my favorites to be played many times.

Excellent, Inexpensive, Enjoyable Game [Posted on 2007-07-02]
If you've managed to play or see "Neverwinter Nights 2", this game's graphics match or excel it--a significant feat considering that NWN2 is over a year newer, and has extremely steep system requirements that prevent it from working well on most PCs. This game isn't turn-based in combat as NWN/DnD is; you live and die by how fast you use your skills. There are plenty of areas in experience and buffing and alignment to vary the gameplay widely and pleasantly.

The storyline is pleasantly surprising and quite engaging (some of it not quite predictable). Lots of humor in the game as well (when you're able to play the character of Black Whirlwind, read his journal log, then kill 100 human enemies before killing a large golem to see a successive graduation of kill titles). Romance abounds for the "shippers" of RPG games, too: Not only can same-sex relationships work, but male players can romance two females at once (add 70's music here). This addition, as well as some blood fountains on killing some enemies, makes this game as M for Mature, however, parents needn't worry about language, but should be mindful of the sexual suggestive content in terms of threesomes and same-sex romance (the male-female kiss is shown, but BioWare does not show same-sex kisses). The price is agreeable, too.

PCs need a good DirectX 9 video card to make this work. Mac users with MacBook Pros or Intel-based Macs with non-integrated video (sorry, MacBooks) will find this game a blast (and is what I played this game with using Apple Boot Camp). Martial-arts gaming fans (particularly monk players from Neverwinter Nights) should consider this a must-buy.

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