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Toooo much conversations!!!!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 25
Date: November 25, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I rented this game 2 days ago, and was trying to play, but I couldn't because only thing you do here is listning to conversations. It is same like watching a movie, but sometimes you can play for 10 seconds.Be carefull; if you die you have to wait another 10 minutes to play it again.Plus to many downloads!
Do not buy this game it dosn't worth your many.

What The Hell Happened?

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 4 / 15
Date: September 17, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I was so stoked about this game after all the great reviews, that I went out and BOUGHT AN XBOX,JUST TO PLAY THIS GAME!
I GOT HOSED!!

I started this game and loved it, until about my 3rd hour of dialogue that is damn near impossible to avoid! Dont get me wrong, I have no problem with well written dialogue in a story, (See Clerks!!, Or any other Kevin Smith Movie for a great example of hillarious dialogue!!!), however, I dont need hours on hours of script in a game!
What the hell is up with the long load times?! I remember games like Twisted Metal 2, and the Original Tomb Raider, that had load times like this!
These load times are sick in this day of Next-Generation systems!

So some pluses and minuses!

+ Amazing Graphics!
+ Fantastic Characterization
+ Amazing Character Developement
+ Amazing Monsters (Demon Toad, Demon Elephant, Etc)
+ Great Concept
- Lousy Villans..(Seemed Disney Evil)
- Damn LOAD TIMES
- Cheesy Story
- Fighting System is very stiff, no fluidity
- DAMN LOUSY LOAD TIMES!!
- This game pissed me off so badly with the Load Times, and Endless, Endless, Dialogue, that I couldn't even finish this.

I am returning this game the DAY AFTER I BOUGHT IT!

I'm sorry gang, I was so stoked that I bought an XBOX just to play this! I'm returning this game and buying "God Of War".

I hope Bioware can get it right on a second go around!

Boring game ever played

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 3 / 17
Date: September 09, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I am fairly new to the xbox domain but i had played a lot of pc games earlier. I had played games like tomb raider ,max payne recoil to name a few earlier and then decided to jump into xbox since i got a job recently and i could afforf it. But once i started the game i just cudnt stick with it for long. I was bored right from the day one. I couldnot retain any damn interst. Its so damn boring. the main problems are:
The combat is very boring. The demons or whatever are way to easy to kill. Just keep hitting the A button and some where they will die for sure. No strategies nothing.
The story is kinda boring. I never got into its long verbose dialogues. You wont believe me but the dialogues run for almost like 5-7 mins and then a short combat scene and another 5-7 mins of dialogues. I m not a big fan of listening to the story when i am ther to play.
No strategies or planning required unlike many other games. When u compare it with games like Tomb Raider and Max Payne you will realise what i am talking about. You need some skill to clear the levels in those games. In this you just need patience to sit and keep listening to the dumbass crap spoken by the characters.
Fighting styles etc are no big deal. You can kill the enemy with just one or two default styles and since you get used to it from the begining of the game you dont feel like switching to the other new styles which have no better effect.
As I said earlier the game is way tooo easy for some looking for some action to play. Moreover the verbose conversation literally SUCKS!!!
ITS BY FAR THE MOST OVERRATED AND HYPED GAME OF THIS YEAR.
I bought GTA and Ghost Recon and i ended up playing the same map again and again in it. Thats the kind of interest it generated.
GHOST RECON rocks seriosuly! but if only we had more maps in it. Otherwise its awesome!

In a nutshell. If you are looking for some action better not go with this game. It sucks big time. Go for some real action packed games like medal of honor, halo etc..but definetely not jade empire !

Disappointing

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 7
Date: May 26, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This game has some beatiful scenery, and...well, that's about it. This game commits the cardinal sin of video games: it's very boring. And I'm a huge fan of KOTOR, so I'm not averse to talky talkiness, but the generic story, tedious combat, and uninteresting stat/ability system caused me to sell this game quicker than any game I've ever had. Just beware.

rent it dont buy it

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 5
Date: July 02, 2005
Author: Amazon User

this game is extremely short i beat it in two days. it is also repedative. it is very easy even on hard it is easy. the game does have good graphics and it does have a good story but it isn't very fun. I definately reccomend you buy this game. I would have given it a better score if I didn't pay 50$ for it.

Rent this game before you buy it

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: July 09, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I was rather disappointed with this game. Especially after reading all the hype about it. And it being done by Bioware. It did not meet up to my standards of RPG,s..Not near enough options for your player from the get go. Graphics aren't near as good as I heard they were. When your flying around in the aircraft in this game, it looks like the old astroids game. It was a real let down. Especially because I bought it when it first came out. 50 bucks wasted. I bought the special addition of this game as well. I would hate to see the normal version.......

Highly Overated

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: August 01, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This game has been highly overated, and I really do not understand why.

Obviously from the makers of Knights of the Old Republic, which were great games, comes this boring and highly uncontrollable game. It starts slow and is so slow moving the entire game through. There are no new aspects not seen in RPGs before it, and nothing is original. It combines the fighting style of Tenchu, with the RPG style of KOTR without lightsabers. You spend most of the game choosing from a variety of boring dialogues, which make you good or evil, having no effect on the game whatsoever. The fighting is so boring, I would rather choose dialogue than use the same 3-hit combos continuously. WHen you upgrade fighting styles, it only makes fights worse, because every enemy dies after one hit. It's like playing with cheats, while trying to have a challenge. Buy KOTR or Final Fantasy if you like RPG. Stay away from this boring, and so highly overated game. Most games that go from 50 to 30 dollars within so little time, obviously have problems.

Good presentation and story, lackluster combat

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: August 19, 2005
Author: Amazon User

If you're reading this review, you probably already know the basics about "Jade Empire", so I'll just spit out my impressions:

The graphics are very nicely done. I like the sense of scale that having different-sized enemies provides. The movement is fluid, and the lighting effects for magic were good without being over-done (I feel many other games over-do it with the light effects). The sound and voice acting also reflect well on the game -- they never bowled me over, but they were consistently good. The different musical pieces suited the context of the parts of the game that they were played in.

I liked the story very much too. Even though role-playing game and martial-arts cliches were present throughout, I still thought the plot had enough detail and twists to keep me interested. Scrolls and books in the game provided more detail to the history of the Empire, without making the game too "texty".

My complaint with "Jade Empire" is the combat. You spend a large amount of the game fighting through various enemies, but only on very few occasions was I forced to deviate from the same basic pattern that I could use to kill almost every enemy. (And on those occasions, I just had to develop and use a different pattern.) You gain many different fighting styles through the game -- some fast, some slow, some magical, some that let you turn into demons -- but I ended up relying on the same few styles over and over. The game ended up feeling fairly easy. There was one area (the Arena) that I found consistently challenging, but the rest of the game presented few memorable fights.

A good comparison to "Jade Empire" is "Ninja Gaiden". They are similar games, and "Jade" has a better story and just felt more polished. The fighting in "Ninja" felt much more rich and varied though -- there are a variety of weapons and combos and it just feels like your character grows over time. In "Jade" your character gets more fighting styles but, aside from the fun of turning into different demons, they didn't add much to the gameplaying experience. As a result, I ended up enjoying "Ninja" a lot more -- it felt like a real accomplishment to beat that game.

There are elements that make "Jade Empire" somewhat replayable. Your character can make "good" or "evil" choices, although these seem to mainly affect the dialogue responses. I played a good character, and only saw a few places where being evil would have materially changed things. Still, playing as an evil character has some novelty appeal. If I replayed the game, I would also make an effort to rely on different styles than I used the first time -- this would also change the gameplay a bit.

In summary, "Jade Empire" was good, but not great. Polish and plot are great, but the lack of depth in the gameplay left me disappointed.

Good but not great

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 6
Date: October 03, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Here are my points on Jade Empire:

1. Great Graphics
2. Good Sound
3. Wide range of characters
4. Lots of choices on fighting tactics
5. Dialog between too many characters is too long, some would have been okay, but they go overboard.
6. Too many loads, way too many.
7. Good voice acting
8. Personally I found the character development superficial, but to be fair that is true of most games. I don't want good versus evil. Look at the so called seven deadly sins and try to include them in some way. One simple example is have even good characters get jealous or envious. Or maybe two characters fall in love with the same person. Everything bad in the world does not just come from evil people. Another possible plot complication, is have the love interest be killed in battle, how would that affect your characters philosphy??
9. While I applaud their effort to include possible gay relationships they seem to have been half-hearted about it. If your going to be bold please have the courage of your convictions.

What a disapointment

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 9
Date: July 11, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This game was the bigest disapointment of the year. Every one kept sayin how great it was and all this hype about the best rpg of the year. Well you were all wrong this game is garbage. I hated it and it was soo dam boring i never even wanted to keep playing. But the worst part was that i actualy paied 50$ for it when its worth about 15$.I will even admit the story was prety good and it had a good idea but the story didnt stick together and the good and evil part was stupid. As much as i wanted to keep going evil its like it wouldnt let me even if i helped 1 person for money it still brought my meter up to the good side, it just didnt go good with the game.And the combat was horible it was the worst fighting ever it was like fighting on a ps1 game it was clunky and cheezy, and it seemed like i just kept doin the same moves over and over. It did sound cool that you could turn into a demon but that was even lame when u you get it, like who the hell wants to turn into a big ass ugly frog? The game is just straight up boring and every convo you have its like they make you think about every single answer you give even for the stupid convos , that just gets boring , Well over all it had a good story but it wasnt enough to save the game cuz this game was lame and boring and too repetitive. I might have liked it more if so many people didnt hype it up so much and i didnt pay 50$ for the dam game. My advice if you didnt play it , rent it or wait till it gets cheaper to get it. But if i was you id just stay the hell away from this boring game

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