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This general feeling is helped along by the breakneck pace of the game вЂ“ experienced players should expect to complete Jade Empire in a matter of ten to fifteen hours, the former half of which includes virtually all sidequests in the game, leaving the rest of the plot to rush you at once and provide a feverish pitch to the crucial parts. From the moment you and your cohorts bust through a palace door to encounter twenty guards pointing sharp things at you and demanding your surrender, right up to your chasing up the stairs of the throne room to the altar at the top, it is as if you are playing through a movie. Situations are recognizable and familiar, but thatвЂ™s a great deal of their charm.

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While this quick and dirty plot summary might sound extremely generic вЂ“ and let us be honest here, the meta-plot is, on the whole, generic and the twists predictable вЂ“ thereвЂ™s a great sense of fun in the game that comes from playing through what is akin to an amalgamation of every kung-fu movie under the sun. Well, this is a BioWare game, after all!ДonвЂ™t be misled. Along the way, in the traditional fashion, a whole bunch of misfits will join your cause, youвЂ™ll encounter increasingly stronger bad guy minions, infiltrate some enemy strongholds, become a martial arts master, and probably start a romance plot with someone.

Taking the role of the young orphan prodigy at a calm, idyllic martial arts training facility in the mountains, Jade Empire slowly leads you into a wonderfully clichГ© plot involving the overrunning of the little connecting village and the kidnap of first your childhood friend and potential sweetheart and then that of your erstwhile master, a firm-but-fair man who happens to have saved you years ago when he defected from being the greatest strategist in the realm.

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The question is whether BioWare, after so many successful turn-based systems from the team, can pull off a full action battle system, or will Jade Empire play stonily? You loved the Knights of the Old Republic games, but you tend to prefer something a bit medieval for your playing pleasure well, fear not! Jade Empire is a decidedly eastern affair from BioWare in something of a Knights style but with a more action-oriented battle system. LetвЂ™s imagine that you own an XBox and are a bit of an RPG fan вЂ“ both fair assumptions if you should happen to be reading this. Sometimes those decisions mean you unwittingly aided a goddamn magical terrorist who needs to burn in the deepest levels of hell for including me in his mass murdering plans, but those are the choices I made.So hereвЂ™s the picture. There are many choices to make, but there's no bar you're trying to fill, so you can actually roleplay and make decisions you think make sense. It's why Dragon Age is my favorite Bioware game. I want a reason to be bad other than mustache twirling super villainy stuff. The good guys ask you to do the good thing, and then some shadowy figure steps up and basically says 'Wouldn't you rather do something more evil because it's fun to be Evil?' There's usually some sort of monetary reward to being evil, but the game is balanced so that good players always have enough money, so it ends up that the only reason I'm choosing evil is because I already beat the game as a good guy and I want to see what the evil story looks like.

If I had one real complaint it's that, like most games with a morality meter, a lot of the 'evil' choices just seem to be there to be evil. Combat is fun, story is alright (though the crazy 'twist' in the middle was kind of obnoxiously telegraphed) and I liked all the characters. I had a kung fu fight with an elephant, and got to punch Asian Captain Mal in the face! What game could be better?!