BioWare's Jade Empire For Xbox Unveiled

Posted by simoniker on Thursday September 25, 2003 @11:46AM from the knights-of-the-kung-fu-republic dept.

Thanks to an anonymous reader for pointing out BioWare's official Jade Empire site is now open, with news and screenshots about this Xbox-exclusive "epic action roleplaying game" from the creators of Baldur's Gate and Star Wars:KOTOR. There are also early screenshots for this Microsoft-published, Q4 2004-due title, "based on mythical China", in which the player "becomes a legend in... [a] world of martial arts and magic." There's also an interview with the BioWare founders and Jade Empire producer over at GameSpy which, though marketing-speak heavy, gives away some of the similarities to the popular KOTOR (for example, "If players want to pause to reflect on their strategic choices during a tough battle and choose that perfect style, they can do this at any time", though Jade Empire has real-time combat.)

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Re:Interesting... by DaveCBio · 2003-09-25 12:45 · Score: 2, Interesting

This couldn't be more incorrect. The tools for Xbox dev are great. From an audio perspective they are the best I have seen. Also, you have failed to mention that our latest game, Knights of the Old Republic is Xbox.
Re:Interesting... by DaveCBio · 2003-09-25 12:55 · Score: 2, Insightful

Nope, it's a new engine as you can tell if you look at the way the lighting is done. All the systems were redone. It's even newer than the KotOR engine.