Jade Empire: Special Edition Review

The Escapist has posted a detailed review of Jade Empire: Special Edition, and while there’s no overall score, it sounds like they were fairly impressed with BioWare’s latest RPG.

While Jade Empire is a short game compared to some of the 100-plus hour monsters in the genre, it’s completely satisfying. I was glad to have a game I could complete in a week or two, rather than something that attempted to consume my life for a month. The world itself is beautiful to look at, and the way the world is built – story-wise – is incredibly deep. I have to tip my hat to any game design that includes making up an entire language. The combat is lots of fun, simple on the surface, with a lot more planning once the styles start piling up, and the story is something that should be experienced by fans of wuxia movies, or anyone hoping for a break from pseudo-Tolkien RPGs.