What do you know? My collection has grown once more with the addition of Bioware's 2005 game Jade Empire. This is one of those games that I must admit to knowing nothing about. I somehow managed to miss this game when it hit the shelves, and honeslty would not haveknown about its existence at all if certain members of GameBanshee didn't keep talking about it whenever a Bioware related subject is posted on the newsfeed. On one hand I feel like my lack of knowledge concerning this game is a bit odd since I've been a major supporter of Bioware and thier story-telling abilities. On the other, I have to forgive myself since Jade Empire is in an unusual, ancient Chinese inspired setting. Yes the setting is unique, but I've always been more into the "normal" high-fantasy settings and thus might have simply completely disregarded the game on appearance alone (at the time) before blocking it from my memory altogether. Doing so would have been rather un-gamerly of me, but I can't think of any other way that this title managed to slip under my radar. Well as it stands, I'm now the proud owner of Jade Empire: Édition Spéciale, which includes both the English and the French versions. Acquiring a copy of the French game was completely unexpected, but that is what happens when you buy "new" games sight unseen from companies that largely deal in used games. You won't hear complaining though, because there are far too few multi-lingual games in my collection.
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