Can you employ too many ways of dealing martial arts style death to a variety of Oriental foes both natural and supernatural? Absolutely not would seem to be BioWare's answer if our latest encounter with the potential work of genius that is Jade Empire is anything to go by.

Picture the scene: a giant elephant demon has just fallen with a shudder which rocks the ground, finally succumbing to a coup de gras of iron-fisted blows after being successively pummelled by spell fire, hacked into smaller cubes by closer quarters combat rings and then given a toe-to-toe booting by our own ugly mutha of a demon form.