Action and FPS titles tend to be king in the console world, so how do you open up the RPG genre to a wider audience without distancing the role-playing fanatics? You carefully craft a story that would put any major motion picture or best-selling novel to shame, add in enough role-playing elements to make Final Fantasy fans jealous, combine it with a real-time combat engine to keep the action peeps happy, and then have one of the top developers in the world put it all together. What you have in the end is one of the best Xbox games of all time, Jade Empire.