Jade Empire: Special Edition (2007)
Jade Empire: Special Edition is a 2007 role-playing (rpg) video game made by BioWare and 2K Games.
The PC version of Jade Empire, with improved visuals, two additional fighting styles, and a bonus character. Players still train under a master in Two Rivers, still choose between the Open Palm and the Closed Fist philosophy, and still travel an ancient mythic China that mixes martial arts spectacle with genuine moral complexity. The Special Edition is the most complete version of BioWare's wuxia RPG, with dialogue-driven companion relationships, real-time brawler combat, and a story that earns its mythological scale.
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What is Jade Empire: Special Edition about?
The PC version of Jade Empire, with improved visuals, two additional fighting styles, and a bonus character. Players still train under a master in Two Rivers, still choose between the Open Palm and the Closed Fist philosophy, and still travel an ancient mythic China that mixes martial arts spectacle with genuine moral complexity. The Special Edition is the most complete version of BioWare's wuxia RPG, with dialogue-driven companion relationships, real-time brawler combat, and a story that earns its mythological scale.
When was Jade Empire: Special Edition released?
Jade Empire: Special Edition was released on 27 February 2007.
Who made Jade Empire: Special Edition?
Jade Empire: Special Edition was made by BioWare, 2K Games and Aspyr Media.
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Butterfly and Sword captures the wuxia genre's blend of elegant choreography and layered betrayal that Jade Empire draws from. A Hero Born by Jin Yong is the foundational wuxia novel, setting the moral and martial archetypes the game works within.
Wuxia cinema
The martial arts film tradition that shapes Jade Empire's aesthetic and moral framework: competing schools, hidden identities, and the question of whether strength should serve others or serve itself.