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5/5 |
Jade Empire
(September 23, 2007) |
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Jade empire is fantastic it's got great gameplay and a great storyline and it has a bonus disc with an exclusive character and demos for froza motorsport and two more i won't say 10/10 must buy! |
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5/5 |
Best Bioware game yet
(April 08, 2007) |
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There are no spoilers in this review.
I've been playing Bioware RPGs since Baldur's Gate and I must say this is the best one yet! Set in a mythical far East world with magic and combat "styles" instead of weapons. This is the first Bioware game I've seen with a realtime combat system and it is implemented perfectly, adding an extra dimension of strategy and challenge to the genre.
The support characters are interesting, but didn't bring their own missions... I am still debating with myself if this is a good or a bad thing. Typically Bioware games give each support character a side mission which distracts from the main game. Not adding side missions to each of them kept things focused, but reduced playing time and depth of the supports.
If I were to add any criticism about the main game, it would be that Bioware still have not got the good/evil, light/dark thing right yet. In fact they have it so wrong they may as well stop trying! Luckily it is not a main focus of this game and they use an "open palm/closed fist" system which allows the user to choose their specialist fighting style to align with their philosophy. This could have been executed better. I feel that if something like this is going to be in the game, it has to be the focus of the game, and the story needs to be as rich for either set of decisions... with much better benefits to choosing the "evil" path. Bioware should learn from the authors of Fable on this one, or leave it out entirely.
Unfortunately, Bioware have felt the need to throw in some really distracting mini-games. I hated these things in KOTOR and was really annoyed to see them show up again in Jade Empire. There is an R-Type style shooting game which is not part of the storyline at all, and actually seriously distracts from the main game... it doesn't even make any sense because your flying ship is flying the same colours as the enemy anyway so there is no need to fight them in the air. Sillyness! |
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5/5 |
Awesome Game !!!
(July 17, 2006) |
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Great game with great graphics and gameplay but overall knights of the old republic is ten times better! |
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2/5 |
if you love long winded dialogue - this is for you!
(January 28, 2006) |
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With incredible attention to the artistic detail and a great storyline, this should have been the game to steal my life away..... but the over-lengthy boring and excessive dialogue was enough to wipe out the gaming pleasure for me. I found myself clicking through dialogue to get to the action, and missing important information as a result. If you want a game where you have time to snooze/make a cup of tea/decorate a room between scenes, this is the one. So much eastern promise hidden under a blanket of tedious chat.... shame!! |
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3/5 |
Dissapointed to be honest.
(December 21, 2005) |
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I loved both KOTOR games especially the second and I don't even like Star Wars that much.So when I heard about Jade Empire and saw the hype it was getting I was really looking forward to it,especially when I heard the combat was martial arts orientated with an eastern storyline.
But upon getting it I was pretty dissapointed,partly because I'd loved KOTOR so much,which you can't help but compare it to.Heres what dissapointed me:
-Lack of customisation on your character and your followers(its major downfall in my opinion)
-Combat is mainly button bashing
-The martial arts moves are nothing amazing quite a bit of vareity but other games have done it better.
-Your followers die in alot of battles and you have no control over them apart from setting them to support or attack.
-Sluggish when trying to open containers etc,you have to be perfectly positioned if you want to open something straight away
-Enemies look too cartoonish and don't always fit in. Best things about the game:
-Pretty nice graphics
-Martial Arts based
-Some cool characters
-Can be good or bad(system not as good as in other games though) I did enjoy the game but I think it could have been alot better. |
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