Jade Empire Xbox. User Score. Your Score. Rate this:. Log in to finish rating Jade Empire. Jade Empire. Share this? Summary: Set in an ancient world inspired by mythical China, Jade Empire lets you train under your master's watchful eye as you learn powerful martial arts and mystical powers.
When danger threatens, you'll travel across the world, from the harsh mountains of the Land of Howling Spirits to the lush Set in an ancient world inspired by mythical China, Jade Empire lets you train under your master's watchful eye as you learn powerful martial arts and mystical powers.
When danger threatens, you'll travel across the world, from the harsh mountains of the Land of Howling Spirits to the lush gardens of the Imperial City. In your adventures, you must face powerful human and supernatural foes, learn the exotic and magical martial arts, and discover the darkest secrets of the world. Practice the greatest fighting styles and defeat the most powerful enemies to become a master of martial arts. Buy on.
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All this publication's reviews Read full review. Everything is done well from the tip of your top knot to the soles of your butt kicking shoes. Some people may be intimidated by the massive amount of reading and conversations that you come upon in this game, but serious RPGers will revel in it.
Jolt Online Gaming UK. Another customizable feature is the conversation skill. You can choose to intimidate, charm, or just be intuitive. It's always fun to see how the person you're talking to reacts. And it gets better--bad guys react to different voice tones than good guys, which is expected. The combat is touted as the central aspect of the game, since kung-fu has revealed itself to Americans has an art form. Many people refer to "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" when talking about this game--it isn't that dull.
There are oodles of different styles to choose and they each fall under different headings--magic, martial arts, support, or weapons-based.
It is essential to swap styles mid-fight, so consequently you can orchestrate some pretty showy fights with multiple stances. If you swap styles at the right time, you can dish out some serious damage.
However, if your opponent is invulnerable to that style, you will accomplish nothing. Therefore, it's always good to try all styles on everything to see what hurts it most. You can swipe at ghosts with your sword 'til the cows come home but you won't make a dent in their health bars. You have to change styles and see what sends 'em reeling. There is some great voice acting in this game as well. I think all of it is pretty good, as it usually fits the character, I didn't notice any repetition, and the dialogue is well-written.
And the characters words come very close to matching their lips. I have noticed several laugh-out loud moments, usually when my character chose the wrong conversation style I tried intuition and it didn't work. The last pro--the Dragonfly minigame. It's a beautiful yet simple top-down shooter. You just shoot enemy flyers as they make elegant patterns around the screen.
Cons--Why does everyone insist on scratching his or her head when speaking with you? Is something going around? Every time you gain a follower they start the head-scratching. I guess it's a gesture to add realism, but nobody itches that much.
Second and this is a matter of opinion, it doesn't bother me , there is a gargantuan amount of dialogue, and lots of it is unskippable. The plot is very important to the game, and how are you going to move it along without saying anything?
Taking on all the side quests adds a huge amount of dialogue, especially if you keep saying the wrong things. One con that seriously irritated me, but I can see why it's there. Everyone else talks on endlessly, but your character doesn't speak.
I guess it's because four hundred times more recording would have been required to come up with all the answers your character can make. I just felt kind of distant from everyone else. If a sequel is to ever be conceived I hope that the flaws are addressed as the World of Jade Empire has a lot of potential to expand upon because as of right now, Jade Empire doesn't do enough justice to what is a really interesting setting. Bioware games are known, visuals aside, for their unforgettable characters and imersive story telling, unfortunately this is not always the Bioware games are known, visuals aside, for their unforgettable characters and imersive story telling, unfortunately this is not always the case in Jade Empire.
Although, I experienced a few annoying graphic glitches between loading times, but nothing major. Sound: 6 The sound effects are just average, like in previous bioware games.
The soundtrack is surprisingly bland and occasionally hard on the ears. The voice acting is a mix bag, because Bioware decided it was a good idea to cast american voice actors instead of asian ones.
Why is this bad? Because, when I'm exploring a fantasy Asian world, i'm not expecting the NPC's to speak perfect English, it kills the immersion for me. Other than that the voice acting it self, is sill above average. Characters an Story: 6 The Characters are also a mix bag, Wild Flower is the only character in the lot to be remotely original, the rest are just a compilation of badly written stereotypes with uninteresting back stories and inconsequential roles.
The only other character worthy of mention is Sir. Roderick, because he's just one of the most hilarious characters I have ever seen in a video game, unfortunately you can't recruit him, go figure!
The Story it self is ok though. Gameplay: 6 As customary, in Bioware RPGs, you can recruit party members to aid in combat, but only one can accompany you, though it's possible to switch between the rest at any time. The problem is, other than giving you stat bonuses, your companions are utterly useless, mainly because their I.
A is borderline inept. The I. Their is also no customization options what so ever, you can only choose between a set of predefined characters. The only variables are the fighting styles you can master and the points you can attribute to Health, Chi and Focus.
The combat system is fun to a certain degree, but it shows limitations when you ramp up the difficulty, mainly because of the iffy controls and wonky camera. Nonetheless, Jade Empire still has some cool ideas under the hood, for example: you can switch between styles during a fight to vary your strategy; you can use magic for long range attacks; you can use a combination of flips and rolls as well as slowing time to avoid enemy attacks and also turn yourself in to a freaking daemon or animal!
And by the way, it is always fun to replay it a second time as an evil guy, lol! Other than that, there is no modding community to speak of, so after the second play through there is no point replaying it again.
Final Thoughts: If you're looking for a hardcore rpg game, you'll better skip Jade Empire. But if you liked Knights of the old republic and Neverwinter Knights, you might want to give this one a try. Final Score: 7 … Expand. Lite fun and lots of action; beautiful to look at. The Good: - Nothing. This game is terrible. The Bad: The Good: - Nothing. The Bad: - The game didn't even run on Steam on Windows 10 and I had to look up how to fix the install issue. It was something dumb the developer should have fixed a missing steam.
The only result of any battle: being killed. I had to lower the difficulty, but on Easy the game is too easy.
It doesn't fit. It comes off as gross, racist, and offensive. A game about Chinese people with no Chinese people making decisions on the art direction and plot. How awful. The Ugly: - This game sits square in the middle of the Uncanny Valley. The 3D characters are really disturbing. A lot of them don't really look human at all although they're supposed to look human - There is a fake Oriental-ish language that they invented, that sounds like an idiot trying to babble Chinese or Japanese.
This is more than a little offensive. Play Video. Jade Empire Stage-Show Demonstration. Essential Links.
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