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Jade Empire Xbox Game
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UPC:805529974951
Condition:Used
Genre:Role-Playing
Platform:Microsoft Xbox
Region:NTSC (N. America)
ESRB:Mature
SKU:XBOX_JADE_EMPIRE
———This game is fully cleaned, tested & working. Includes the Disc/Cartridge Only. May have some minor scratches/scuffs.This description was last updated on October 28th, 2020.
| Weight | 8 lbs |
|---|---|
| Product Type | |
| Platform | Original Xbox |
| ESRB Rating | Teen |
| Genre | role-playing |
| Players | 1-4+ |
| Condition | Used |
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This game is brilliant, especially considering it’s age! Fantastic game. If you like Bioware’s other stuff, you’ll really enjoy this one too.
It’s a great game, what can i say? i wish the end didn’t feel so rushed, and that playing as a bad guy had a greater difference in the plot, but hey, game and learn.
If games like Knights of The Old Republic and Mass Effect and their "potential for good or evil" style of role-play are your cup of tea, then this is one game that you should definitely pick up. (It’s backwards compatible on the 360, and cheap to acquire. Well worth it.) Almost identical to KOTOR in every respect (game mechanics, play style, and general awesomeness) but the excellent soundtrack and motion-captured combat styles combine to make the battle sequences far more exciting and fun to watch.
This is one of the best games ever made, it’s definitely worth picking up. This game can actually be played on the xbox 360 if you install an online update, which is nice. I really wish Bioware would remake this or make a sequel, I would buy the crap out of that. This is essentially Dragon Age, but set in east asian medieval folklore rather than european medieval folklore.
It’s aged marvelously. The writing, the dialogue, the plot, outstanding. Yes it’s too short as many have pointed out, but that’s certainly preferable to a game feeling too long. What stuck out for me was how vibrant, deep and "alive" the characters were, the wide array of choices to make to draw one to repeat playthroughs, and I reiterate, the quality of the writing itself: remarks from your companions and opponents stick with you and make you think, and the diction is flowery, poetic, and "wordy," without being pedantic or stilted. It’s all very natural, and beautiful, and you feel pulled into another world, a very charming, colorful one.My only complaint in this area is that "Closed Fist" is essentially pure evil. It’s basically a path to take for giggles after you’ve played through "Open Hand" once or twice. I got started with Closed Fist on this playthrough assuming that it would simply be a selfish, power-hungry path as it’s billed to be, different than the "Dark Side" in the KOTOR games, but the Closed Fist path is truly one in which your character is one dark, sadistic SOB, and I found myself changing back to Open Palm pretty early on. I wish they had gone a different route with the Closed Fist path.The combat is fun, but a little button mashy, particularly by modern standards. Having played through KOTOR and part of KOTOR II, the more turn-based, tactical system they employed better fared the test of time; however, I couldn’t ha.
Jade Empire is one of the best games to come out this year, and it did just about everything right. I have very few gripes and so on a scale of 1-10 I would give it more of a 9.5. I rate on a couple of categories when deciding the rating of a game, so it’s easy to follow the review. So read on if you want my full opinion.Video: Firstly, the graphics. The graphics throughout the entire game are very pretty and pleasing to the eye, the Jade Empire is a fun world to look at and the character models are beautiful and not duplicated often. The lighting in the game is more than adequate for a game like this, there are shadows for about every object in the game. The only bad thing I can say is that sometimes when talking the character animations can get a little jerky or awkward sometimes (You might have to wait for a character to turn around or something as such, which is woefully slow sometimes). However, the combat animations look smooth as silk and move exactly how you want them to.Audio: The audio in Jade Empire is very impressive as well. The music completely immerses you within the world of the Empire, and it definitely breathes a large component of the combat in Jade Empire, you just feel like whistling some of the tunes that you get when you’re ripping out the ribs of an ogre. The sound effects in the game are also done well, the kicks and punches and flips and rolls sound real when you’re dancing around an enemy you’re right about to bop a good one in the face. And, as i.
Great
From the people who brought us Knights of the Old Republic comes another genre-blending game with a fabulously twisting plot. If you own an Xbox, you should own this game. It is not only the best Action RPG on the Xbox but one of the best RPGs played in recent memory.For those who have played KOTOR, this game will be instantly familiar. At the offset, you pick a character and are thrust into a world of moralities. Unlike KOTOR, the morality system is a little more complex for the most part. Instead of focusing on good and evil, your character has the choice of being endlessly helpful, understanding and tolerant of everyone (in other words believes in the power of the human spirit) or someone who reveres strength. As an example of this strength concept, there is a decision early on about a dam that is open and has caused problems for a town because the sailors are land locked. A wine merchant wants the dam to remain open so he can make a killing off of the sailors. If you follow the Way of the Open Palm you would probably close the dam so that the town can prosper in what is should be doing. If you follow the Way of the Closed Fist, on the other hand, would decide that if the town were strong they will survive this current hurdle and that it is only that, a hurdle. It gets a little more tricky than that and does open some areas for roleplaying your character and deciding what you would really do in that situation. Bioware is also wonderful at making you think about.
My purchase of Jade Empire was solely due to my love of BioWare’s best known title, Knights of the Old Republic. I was concerned that I might not be so engrossed without the Star Wars factor, but I was quickly sucked into this game.As someone who might have only recently thought to describe herself as a gamer, I am sorely lacking in the controller skills one might expect a real-time combat system to require. I was pleasantly surprised to find Jade Empire’s combat more than accessible; I’d be so bold as to say I was quickly kicking major kung-fu butt :-). Seriously, the variety of styles, both in types (Martial, Weapon, Magic and Support) and the sheer number of available styles, made the fighting beautiful to see, and although there are no complex button combinations, the Harmonic Combinations, while never necessary to defeat an opponent, allow the player to rain especially gory death on his or her enemies.The storyline just rocks. The larger, overarching action constantly beckons the player to continue, and the romance subplots are one feature significantly improved over KotOR, in my opinion. Both male and female PCs have more than one character available for love, and one’s chosen can be converted to the PC’s philosophic path, or suffer the consequences. As (I admit it) a sappy girl when it comes to romance, I found this aspect of the game contributed significantly to my immersion in the plot. This game can be beaten in a little over 20 hours easily, but the game exp.
I really do recommend Jade Empire, it’s an RPG much like Knights of the Old Republic except you play a monk from ancient times and go around helping or hurting others while you try to get revenge for having your school burned down and your master kidnapped.I believe it is made by the same people who did KOTOR, so they are very similar. Instead of the light and dark side, you have the Way of the Open Hand and the Way of the Closed Fist. Like KOTOR, there is dialogue and options that you can choose from to answer in response. Your actions effect the way you are, do bad things- you’re a bad guy and so on. One example being that you meet a woman who is obsessed with a man who is already married, she hires people to beat the man up for being married to another woman who isn’t her. You can settle this by either killing them all or helping them to understand each other or take another option. Many options are given to different goals, another great part of the game.The characters on the game are very interesting, from a King Seesar like spirit that possesses a little girl to a ninja who is out for revenge, the game has many interesting characters that become your allies. The game itself is well done, the game isn’t even turn based and is even more smooth than KOTOR. I really do think it’s one of the best games of ’05 and I highly recommend that everyone who likes RPGs like KOTOR or Fable to get it.
Vader1978 –
A++++ product
J. Kennedy –
I had only expected another “Fable” out of this game, but boy was I wrong!I loved this game so much that I actually ended up playing it three times in a row. So what did I love so much?First of all, Jade Empire took the gimmick that Fable used (the good vs. evil character development) and really ran with it. In one instance, alignment determines which of two spells you can learn. In addition, there are side quests available in the game that you can only complete if you are either good or evil (and you have to prove you are good enough or bad enough sometimes!).I loved that your responses to people weren’t limited, either. One time through the game, I successfully hooked up a callous woman with an artisan. On my next playthrough, I was annoyed with the picky nature of the woman and just outright killed her and her posse. Granted, I lost out on some experience points, but it was fun!This game also has a high replay value. Not only so you can play through as good and then as evil and get all the sidequests that are particular to a specific alignment, but also because of the various fighting & support styles & weapons.I would’ve given the game 4 1/2 stars simply because some of the dialogue and storyline can really drag, but when it got too “talk-heavy,” I just skipped over it all. Once you’ve basically got the gist, that’s about all you need.I really loved all the secret sidequests, too. I won’t tell about them so I don’t ruin it if you haven’t played yet, but suffice i.
Sean A Petersen –
In my opinion,Jade Empire was the best game ever created for the original Xbox. With this game, Bioware delivered hundreds of hours of incredible story-telling while also implementing a more involved action-based engine than displayed in KOTOR. If you never got around to playing this game years ago, pick it up now! With any luck, Bioware will finally decide to realease a sequel on the PS4 & Xbox One!
Ryan D. Gilbert –
Rarely does a game so hyped up live up to it’s expectations. They can be very good and serviceable, but they don’t blow you away. This game blew me away after just five minutes. Having just experienced the awful second installment to KOTOR, I was jonesing for a good RPG. I really enjoyed Fable, but it was waaaaay too short, and it seemed liked it was a little rushed out to the market. It was still a very good game though.Jade Empire blows it away. Everything that was great about Fable, is even better in JE. Everything that was lacking in Fable, they not only fixed it in JE, but they NAILED it. Let’s go down to the specifics.**I need to add this disclaimer as I have noticed distinct differences in game reviews based on the reviewers entertainment system configuration. If you don’t have a system which can fully exploit all aspects of this game, then you might not rate it as high as someone who does. I fortunately have spent way too much money on my system, and can fully enjoy it in all it’s glory.Graphics:It’s about as good as it can get on the Xbox. For those of us who also play PC games, we have gotten a little spoiled with the amazing graphics that have been coming out on the current PC titles; but graphics are not just in the clarity and resolution. JE has AMAZING cinemagamophry. There are scenes that are truly breathtaking, where I just panned around taking in the amazing scenery. I found myself trying to find a print screen function to capture those pictures, like I.
Josliv –
This was an excellent game and it was in good shape and I received the game relatively quick. Great experience over all.
Tropic of Criticism –
I think maybe, just maybe, you have to play one or the other of JADE EMPIRE or KNIGHTS OF THE OLD REPUBLIC, but not both.I’ve played both to completion, and really the difference seems to come down to this. The graphics and in-game fighting are significantly better in JE, but KOTOR gets the nod for better story line, acting and sound engineering.Otherwise they’re essentially very similar games. Aside from the fighting aspects(which in JE is real time, but in KOTOR is turn-based) and the specifics of the level-up process, the essential nature of the game is almost exactly the same. You encounter people, choose to help them or not, choose to respond to them in one way or another, and then your character is gradually pulled toward the “good” or the “bad” side of the spectrum. Bioware makes a claim that the choices you face are more varied here than they are in KOTOR–that there are more shades of “grey” in your possible responses–but I don’t see any real evidence of that. It’s more like this: in any field of possible answers there are three “obvious” choices (a “good” one, a “bad” one and a “neutral” one), then there are two “funny” ones (one one that leans toward “bad” and one that leans toward “good”). It’s not like you have to really puzzle it out. But you DO have more to read.What’s interesting about this is, as the second DVD in this Limited Edition will make clear, the guys at Bioware did a lot of independent research to imbue the settings and story with “original.
D0w3r –
not sure how many have actually played this game but it is pretty good. Combat is intuitive for its time. A hidden gem by its own rights.
B-RICE –
Great game, and the it was in good condition
Caleb M Dickenson –
I wish this game had gotten the attention from the community and affection from Bioware that Mass Effect received. For some reason, it feels far older than Mass Effect 1, despite only being released two years prior. The story was excellent, the combat was fun and talking to your companions was interesting. I wish Bioware would redo Jade Empire and made make it into a rebooted trilogy.
alex stein –
Another great buy "limited edition" in perfect condition!