Jade Empire Previews
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The story is deep and involves a world that was on the brink of disaster. Drought had ravaged the land and Emperor Sun Hai was watching his world fall apart. But just when it seemed the Empire was lost, the Emperor suddenly brought water to the land. Rivers rose and rain fell and the world was revitalized. But something else happened as well. The Emperor became more reclusive, and ever by his side is Death's Hand, a formidable masked warrior who heads the Lotus Assassins and is the general of the armies. Spirits seem unable to cross from the world of the Jade Empire to the ethereal realm, and corruption is raising its head in many ways.
And a snippet from 1Up's article:
Like Bioware's other games, there are lots of sidequests and other matters to attend to in addition to the main plot thread. Your character is the best student at the academy, which arouses the ire of a wealthy student, and once you've taken care of the bandits, one of those wounded in the attack needs you to round up ingredients for a healing poultice. You can also get into some interesting ghost-related conversations with Dawn Star and other students at the academy, foreshadowing later events in the Spirit Cave and the game's overall story. Mind you, some of that dialogue will have to be subtitled, due to the game's frequent usage of a fictional language created by Asian linguists.
