I was initially impressed by the story and the richness of Jade Empire world. The game abounds in characters and characters interactions. You can talk with a lot of interesting enough peoples because the game has a huge amount of spoken dialogs, pity that all these dialogs are in a very few occasions memorable, although the voice acting is just simply great. The Jade Empire world is also beautiful enough, despite some very ugly graphical issues like the very old textures. The story of the game is interesting enough until a certain point (until the arena fights), after that, it doesn't manage to keep the player's interest alive. It is really a bad thing that a good story is diluted almost in every game in order to reach 20 or 40 hours of playing time. I would rather prefer a game with 10 - 15 hours of quality playing time, like TLJ Dreamfall for example.
The fight system in Jade Empire is looking great, although it doesn't offer any kind of challenge. It is the same dull method of diluting the playing time.
Anyway, this a good game and it probably worth the money.
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