EA gives Jade Empire away On The House

December 2, 2015 | 11:53

Tags: #jade-empire #on-the-house #origin #role-playing-game #rpg

Companies: #bioware #ea #electronic-arts

Electronic Arts is continuing its On The House promotion, designed to encourage people to install and use its Origin digital distribution platform, with the release of classic BioWare role-playing game Jade Empire for free.

While On The House initially launched in 2014 with the relatively up-to-date horror shooter Dead Space, Electronic Arts has since shifted its focus to concentrate on titles from further back in its history. For a company that has been publishing games for as long as EA, though, that's no bad thing: the promotion, designed to boost interest in digital distribution platform Origin, has seen the free releases of classics including Theme Hospital, Syndicate, SimCity 2000, and Wing Commander III.

Now, the company is turning to BioWare's output, offering the excellent martial arts role-playing title Jade Empire: Special Edition to users completely free of charge. Originally released for the Xbox in 2005 before getting a Windows port as the Special Edition, the Chinese-themed but carefully geographically-fictitious Jade Empire is one of BioWare's most-loved titles. Gathering rave reviews, the game's open-ended nature and impressive - for the time - graphics were universally praised, with one of the few criticisms being its short nature. Sadly, despite this success, no further titles in the series were developed.

Jade Empire: Special Edition is available for download now from EA's Origin service. While the giveaway offer is, as always, time-limited, once redeemed the title will remain downloadable for the life of the user's Origin account.
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Posted by ----jimbo---- - Wed Dec 02 2015 15:01

Origin isn't too bad and has a couple of neat features, sadly it just doesn't have anything like the library of games that Steam does.

Posted by Dave Lister - Thu Dec 03 2015 13:35

----jimbo----
Origin isn't too bad and has a couple of neat features, sadly it just doesn't have anything like the library of games that Steam does.
I'd completely agree with that, it's certainly a lot better than Uplay and has improved a bit over the last year.

Posted by cps1974 - Thu Dec 03 2015 14:07

never had a problem with Origin - don't know anything about the title (save what was said in the article) will defo check it out

Posted by thom804 - Thu Dec 03 2015 14:16

cps1974
never had a problem with Origin - don't know anything about the title (save what was said in the article) will defo check it out
It's a Bioware game, before they got bought out by EA. In other words, it's good.
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