Jade Empire on PC, Alienware giveaway

by Alan Rose on May 13th 2006 1:40PM

This week at E3, BioWare announced they will be porting their Xbox hit Jade Empire to the PC. To commemorate the event, registered members of the Canadian developer's community site can enter to win an Alienware Area-51 5500 PC with Intel's Dual Core technology.

The updated version of Jade Empire will include shinier graphics and new fighting styles, as well as additional enemy types and increased difficulty levels. LTI Gray Matter has been tapped to handle conversion duties, but with Microsoft Game Studios out of the picture, BioWare is looking for a publishing partner to get the new and improved Jade out by year's end.

It will be interesting to see how the new keyboard control scheme works out for Jade's real-time combat. Hopefully, the transition will feel as natural as the turn-based fighting in KOTOR. For more information, check out GameSpot's first look from E3.

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Reader Comments (4)

This game kicked ass on the Xbox, but for a PC port, I'd like to see some new maps as well. Fable the Lost Chapters added some new maps for the PC and I hope BioWare decides to do the same.

Since the combat for the Xbox version felt more like it was menu based than real time I expect that it will transition to the PC just fine.

my main gripe with xbox games and what looks like to be a continuing pattern with x360 games, is that there are no exclusive games. eventually games get ported to PC. now with the whole XNA deal, games are going to be ported to PC faster; almost simultaneously released. usually the pc versions are cheaper and have better options. MS is undermining the main advantage of having the console in the first place.

theres nothing sacred in redmond. halo, halo2, fable, jade empire... the only exclusives they "kinda" have are third party games like dead or alive and ninja gaiden, but there are very few exclusives in third party land either.