Jade Empire

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GAME-PLAY ALERT: You must have an Xbox 360 hard drive in order to play this title. Support for content downloads for this game will be discontinued on April 15, 2010. This game has been fully tested to successfully play on your Xbox 360 console. However, in some cases, you may see some minor irregularities with audio/video for brief periods. For more details, see www.xbox.com/xboxoriginals. Only by mastering the greatest fighting styles and defeating the most powerful enemies will you earn your place as a master of Martial Arts in the world of Jade Empire. There are no refunds for this item. For more information, see www.xbox.com/live/accounts.

Release Date

Apr 14, 2005

Metacritic Score

89

Rating

Play Time

17 hours

ESRB

Mature 17+: Blood and Gore, Violence

System Requirements

Minimum:

  • CPU: Pentium 4/Athlon XP or better
  • RAM: 512 MB
  • GPU: NVIDIA GeForce 6200 or ATI 9500 or better (Shader Model 2.0 required)
  • HDD: 8 GB

Recommended:

  • CPU: Pentium 4/Athlon XP or better
  • RAM: 1 GB
  • GPU: ATI X600 series, NVIDIA GeForce 6800 series, or higher recommended
  • HDD: 8 GB

Interesting Facts

  • The game is set in the Jade Empire, a fictional far-eastern kingdom based on elements of Ancient Chinese history and Chinese mythology.
  • The protagonist, whose gender and name can be selected by the player, is a Spirit Monk rescued as a baby when the forces of Sun Li destroyed their order.
  • The main antagonists in Jade Empire are led by Sun Hai, current ruler of the Jade Empire.
  • Their first original role-playing intellectual property, the game reused the morality system from Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, but switched to a real-time combat system.
  • Dialogue choices are tied into the game’s moral alignments, called “Open Palm” and “Closed Fist”.
  • The characters are divided into three male and three female characters, with a fourth male character being available in later versions.

Mod Support

Yes

Cheats support

Yes

LGBTQ Inclusive

Yes

Number of maps

19

Genres

FightingRPG

Protagonist sex

FemaleMale


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