[Free Stuff] Retro Kung Fu RPG Jade Empire is now free on Origin

If your wallet has been smarting from the recent Steam Christmas sales, you’ll probably be hard up for another game. Fortunately, Electronic Arts has thrown a freebie to tide us over on their Origin website in the form of Jade Empire: Special Edition for PC. The Special Edition throws in additional DLC that was previously paid-for. On Steam, it costs about RM31 though if you download it on Origin you get it for free. They’ve offered games on the house at random times including Red Alert 2 and Ultima VIII: Pagan.

Jade Empire: Special Edition was an RPG released in 2005 by Bioware and while it hasn’t exactly aged gracefully or seen a sequel, it’s a nice, self contained yarn with Bioware’s usual impeccable standards of story crafting including romance options. The story has you as a novice martial arts exponent out in a mythical Far Eastern kingdom dubbed the Jade Empire that starts out as a nobody and as per the usualRPG  tropes becomes the most dangerous thing on the continent. Swing by here to download Jade Empire before it goes away.