Jade Empire was considered one of the few Xbox exclusives worth having the system for, but a sequel has never arrived for the martial arts action RPG. Despite the one-shot deal, BioWare has stated that it would love to revisit Jade Empire and make another one some day.
"We will certainly announce it if it’s going to be coming out," says BioWare's Mark Laidlaw, pulling a Captain Obvious. "At this point, Jade Empire is a staff favorite and a lot of us love it, so we’d love to revisit it at some point. But right now, we are very focused on Dragon Age and Mass Effect 2."
It'd be very interesting to see a new Jade Empire and I'm surprised it's not been done yet. Still, one can imagine that Mass Effect 2 and Dragon Age: Origins take up a lot of manpower, and right now I'm too excited about the latter to think about any other RPGs from BioWare.
What about you? Would you like another Jade Empire?
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6:20 PM on 10.13.2009
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Sounds like great news to me.
If they fixed that, and made switching between styles on the fly natural and effective (which would be AWESOME, given how many cool fighting styles the game had) then I would love another Jade Empire. It was a beautiful and interesting game besides what I felt were flaws, and deserves another visit.
Less verbose comment: man, that's a great fuckin' idea.
Was this one of them?
I have the Limited Edition version and I can't really get past the first skirmish of guys. I really haven't tried to, but I'm still really not into Jade Empire.
Although it could be a good seller in the Asian marketplace, where Microsoft is in need of a shot in the arm after ToV went multiplatform.
Seriously though, my favourite original Bioware property by far.
Also, the world map with two locations on it really made me giggle.
sookie sookie now.
Combat was meh... until I actually realized that its kind of like a wierd fighting game.
Combat was a bit unbalanced... often favoring either overpowered weapons, or transformations.
However, it had the best damn story in any, ANY videogame I've ever played.
I need Jade Empire 2...
It's like a movie... except it's story is about 20X better than the best movie's script.
I did enjoy trying to sacrifice one of them, though..
I've made the mistake before, myself.
I just don't see a huge Jade Empire project being possible while all that IP is still be worked on.