Jade Empire: Special Edition Review
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Jade Empire was a gamble for BioWare. The developers took RPG skills trained by the demands of PC gamers and brought them to a console audience that had very different expectations. Jade Empire's quality was a testament to just how good BioWare was at creating these types of games. A couple of years down the line, though, time has caught up to some degree. The storyline and characters are as rich as they ever were, but advances in both action games and RPG design can't help but make the game feel a bit old-fashioned and highlight flaws in the combat and ethics system. PC gamers who never enjoyed Jade Empire on the Xbox, though, will have a good time with the Special Edition, even if it doesn't quite pack the punch it did a few years ago.
