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Hey folks, if you come across any reviews, please feel free to post them here. It would be great to have a looksee at how people around the world feel about the game. Also, if you are interested, you can write a review yourself here.

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GameBanshee gave it an 8.2/10, and you can check out the entire review over here.

Overall, I enjoyed Jade Empire: Special Edition. I didn't love it, but I liked it. I think the game does all of the things you want to see in a role-playing game -- it tells an interesting story, it gives you options in quests, it looks nice, and it rewards exploration -- and it succeeds despite its origins and the developer's choice to leave in the clunky menu-driven interface and to overly restrict the camera. I encountered no bugs of any consequence in the game (which is pretty rare these days for any game, let alone a role-playing game), and the 30-hour campaign has enough options to it that you might want to try playing it twice.

I think Jade Empire: Special Edition has a lot of parallels to Fable: The Lost Chapters. Both were developed for the Xbox and then made their way to the PC. Both have sub-par, console-style interfaces. In both you control a single character and use roughly the same control schemes. And in both the emphasis is on story and quests rather than on character development options. My guess is that anybody who enjoyed Fable would also enjoy Jade Empire, and Jade Empire should also appeal to the less twitchy-fingered players of role-playing games.


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Awesome n unique game. It's the first RPG game that use ancient China n martial arts theme, but also having nice graphics, storyline, quest, music, n characters. Another RPG which also used ancient China theme, such as PoQ n SoE, only using 2D graphics.
I agree with u about this game similar with Fable : TLC. But I feel any similarity with KotOR, since they were come from same developer.
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