Let’s get one thing straight. Jade Empire is not a game about carving beautiful sculptures and figurines from expensive green stones. Nor is it about an empire, in which people just can't stop doing so.

On the contrary, dear readers, this is BioWare’s latest RPG for the Xbox, and it’s been delayed so many times that we’ve lost count. It’s been two years since the last time I laid my eyes upon it, and even back then, it looked fit to revolutionise the console RPG world.