Normally I’m not the biggest fan of role playing games. Typically I find them slow and tedious, with me having to take forever to raise my character’s stats. I am a very impatient person and want to get right into the action. I don’t want to stay in a specific area so I can level my characters up. And when I do take part in combat, I don’t want the same old command driven combat where my characters take forever to execute a move (Final Fantasy ring a bell to you?) Originally I felt that RPGs were very formulaic and that the genre would never change.

Then Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic arrived at my door. From that moment, role playing games were more attractive. The setting peaked my interest, and the combat was fast and involving. I felt as if I could finally get by in the RPG market.

And now, the developers of KOTOR, Bioware, have done it again with their recent release of Jade Empire. In my opinion, they could have just slapped the gameplay of KOTOR, modify it to an ancient Chinese theme, and I would have been impressed.