Jade Empire coming to PC

By Ellie Gibson Published 8 May, 2006

Complete with fancy new stuff.

BioWare has confirmed that a PC version of hit Xbox fighter Jade Empire is on the way.

It'll feature all manner of exciting new visual effects, high resolution support, new combat styles and a new world map system. You can also expect to be facing off with a whole new range of enemies, all of whom are likely to be a bit clever thanks to enhanced AI.

BioWare has yet to announce when the game will arrive, but in the meantime you might like to take a look at the official website.

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Comments (24) Latest comment 5 years ago

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  • Furbs #1 6 years ago

    Well that'll cheer 'em up after Alan Wake.

  • Xerx3s #2 6 years ago

    JE was a very good game imo. Dunno if you can class it as an RPG though. Really looking forward to JE2.

  • Yossarian #3 6 years ago

    everything about Jade Empire except the combat was 10/10 or close to it in my book

  • Razz #4 6 years ago

    Hated the Language in that game, they should have went with MAndarin Chinese instead of all that custom language crap./

  • tengu #5 6 years ago

    Crap combat system, crap characters, crap story. The design and visuals were quite nice, but after the excellent KotOR, Jade Empire was just a massive step down from Bioware. Hopefully they'll do a better job with Mass Effect.

  • newt #6 6 years ago

    Define 'real' RPG-player.. someone who whines a lot?

    Looking forward to JE.

  • Ryuken #7 6 years ago

    "but after the excellent KotOR, Jade Empire was just a massive step down from Bioware."

    Damn, and I already thought that KotOR was a step down from them. :(

  • jozz #8 6 years ago

    I thought it was pretty good.The average of 82 reviews and 71 votes seems to agree :)

    http://www.metacritic.com/games/platform s/xbx/jadeempire?q=jade%20empire

  • Xerx3s #9 6 years ago

    "Crap combat system, crap characters, crap story. The design and visuals were quite nice, but after the excellent KotOR, Jade Empire was just a massive step down from Bioware. Hopefully they'll do a better job with Mass Effect."

    The combat system was so-so, but for the rest, it was just fine. The characters where very sterotypical (positive imo) and the interaction with them was very nice & the storyline was solid. The music was brilliant and the art was refreshing.

  • space_ace #10 6 years ago

    "hit xbox fighter..." most of these words are out of place

  • paulf #11 6 years ago

    IMO jade empire is not as good as KOTOR but is a nice game nonetheless

  • IAmBatman #12 6 years ago

    "they should have went with MAndarin Chinese "

    You should have went with English.

  • Pirotic #13 6 years ago

    Didn't like Jade Empire at all, not even a patch on KotoR.

  • Scimarad #14 6 years ago

    Is it actually going to have an ending on the PC?

  • Inigo #15 6 years ago

    The story and characters are real good in this but found the fighting system a bit average. I liked the fact that the good/evil (or what ever it is) path really changes how the game progresses.

    Plus the little girl possessed by the demon is cool.

    How could you resist a character called "hen-pecked ho" :)
    Edited by 1 at 08/05/06 @ 19:54

  • JediMasterMalik #16 6 years ago

    KOTOR2 wasn't as good as KOTOR but still a good game. Hopefully this will live up to the standard of KOTOR.

  • stonedben #17 6 years ago

    YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEES!

    I'd call myself a 'real' RPG-player (Baldur's Gate, Morrowind, Oblivion...back to the days of Ultima Underworld) and I absolutely loved Jade Empire on the xbox. I don't have one - it was only a loan - but now I'll get to play it again
    :-D

  • Bertie Verified Senior Staff Writer, Eurogamer.net #18 6 years ago

    Woops, love weed a little bit!

    Been waiting to play this for a while, secretly hoping they'd PCify it. Give us more stats, I'm going to grow a real beard!

  • Chtulie #19 6 years ago

    Seems that only japanese format exclusives stay exclusive.
    Didn't Bioware swear high and low there was never going to be a port of this?

  • lemonfist #20 6 years ago

    Thank God, now even more people can get to play this pile of overrated shite and realise how Bioware have totally lost it.

  • Crea #21 6 years ago

    Jade Empire is a step down, IMO, and indicative of the direction Bioware is heading as a developer. Successive Bioware RPGs seem to increasingly concentrate on voice acting, whizz bang graphics (not a bad thing at all) and real time-ish combat systems at the expense of the things that are most important (to me, not everyone) in an RPG - namely size, scope and non-linearity, as well as more player freedom.

    I thought Jade Empire was nice, but was far too linear and not nearly epic enough in scope. I know they were trying to do something a bit different, but Bioware seem to steadily be moving away from the style of RPGs I most enjoy, namely BGI and II, planescape, Fallout etc.

  • dk_rare #22 6 years ago

    Well now, it seems like there is less and less reason for me to keep my original Xbox

  • nickthegun #23 6 years ago

    I thought I was the only one who thought JE was hugely overrated. They dumbed down everything that made KotoR great so badly it left if drooling in the corner with a rugby helmet on to stop it hurting itself.

    No character customisation, slender story line and dreadful 'Jump over head, counter' combat all made for a pretty poor game. I spent the first hour going 'oooh, pretty...' and the subsequent 4 hours saying 'ok....whens it going to kick in.......'.

  • Shanucore #24 5 years ago

    Three words:

    JADE GOLEM FORM.