Jade Empire joins Xbox Originals
This month’s addition to Xbox Originals doesn’t happen to be as sizeable as in June, or the months preceding it, when more than one original Xbox title released on the download service. The good news is that it’s one quality release – Bioware’s critically-acclaimed RPG Jade Empire.
Courtesy of Major Nelson:
- Content: Jade Empire
- Price: 1200 Microsoft Points
- Availability: All Xbox LIVE regions
- Dash Text: [ESRB: M (MATURE) BLOOD AND GORE, VIOLENCE] Single Player, 5.1 Surround Sound. GAME-PLAY ALERT: This game has been fully tested to successfully play on your Xbox 360 console. However, in some cases, you may see some minor irregularities with audio/video for brief periods. For more details, see www.xbox.com/xboxoriginals. Only by mastering the greatest fighting styles and defeating the most powerful enemies will you earn your place as a master of Martial Arts in the world of Jade Empire. There are no refunds for this item. For more information, see www.xbox.com/live/accounts.
Anybody picking this one up?
does anyone actaully buy xbox originals!!
I got Fable, I would consider this too, it was a quality game.
The only XBOX Original that looks appealling to me is Splinter Cell (BEST GAME SERIES EVER), so, Instead of wasting a load of money, I went down to Blockbusters and looked in the pre-owned box and got it for ÂŁ0.99… waste of money in my eyes…
The only way i’d buy Xbox Originals is if it came with achievements…
i saw Splinter Cell in cex for 20p not long ago
There’s no way you’re going to get achievements with XBox originals. Firstly, the original XBox games were written in a different language, a language that didn’t support the 360 achievement system, or indeed anything to do with the current 360 architecture. The only way you would get achievements with an XBox original would be to rewrite the game using the XNA framework in C#. That’s a heap of additional development time whereas it’s reasonably quick to develop an emulator for the game to enable it to run on the 360. It simply wouldn’t be commercially viable to entirely rewrite an old XBox game.
Hence no achievements. I would love to see it as well, but I know it ain’t gonna happen.
I hadn’t seen any of the gameplay of this game before, but I checked it on YouTube and it looks pretty good. A possible purchase, I would say, however you can get it for ÂŁ6 on Play.com and that includes manuals and packaging so highest marks to M$ for trying, but until the price of XBox Originals can drop to about 600 or 800 MS Points, no sale.
It’s a great game, think Knights of the Old Republic meets Bruce Lee.
i am not an rpger, not even an action rpger, but this game kicked some serious ass. this game has got a lot to offer, and if you can deal with last gen visuals, jade empire has good times written all over it. but yeah, i agree, getting a used copy for a couple dollars might be the way to go on all these xboriginals.