It's easy to make snide comparisons between Jade Empire and SW:KOTOR. Like BioWare's last RPG, Jade Empire has a fairly open-ended plot: set in a fantasy version of ancient China, you—a budding martial artist—open the game by investigating a series of ghost attacks on nearby villages. What happens after that, though, is entirely up to you. Sure, there's an overall story going on, but your role in it is decided entirely by yourself—you can be a goody two-shoes and try to save the world, or you can select all the evil dialogue choices and try to take over the world instead, so to speak.