Jade Empire vs Swordsman Online
Jade Empire
Jade Empire is a martial arts-themed action RPG where you get the freedom to choose to become either a noble hero or a treacherous villain. The game also provides you with a vast open world to explore and a host of interesting characters to interact with. As you play an aspiring martial arts master, you'll have access to a wide range of nicely-animated fighting moves and styles that you can mix and match. While you increase in your proficiency of the martial arts, your enemies' difficulty level will scale up accoridngly as well, so every battle you engage in will be as challenging as the next despite having better gear and skills.However, being a rather old game, the combat sequences may feel a bit choppy and awkward today. The graphics looks weathered as well. And if you want to play this game for its story, you might want to reconsider. Jade Empire is famous for mainly its cool moves and well-made combat system back then, and having a completely original and immersive plot isn't one of the selling points.
That said, there isn't a lot of oriental-themed RPGs out there and Jade Empire happens to be one of the best ones. If you love martial art games, you might want to try this game out.
Swordsman Online
Swordsman Online is unquestionably one of a kind – it is the only martial arts-based MMORPG out there on the internet. The martial arts moves in the game are well-designed and animated. Furthermore, allowing a player to choose only 1 from 10 martial arts schools increases the game’s replayability tremendously. Swordsman also provide many unique features such as wall graffiti, switching martial arts styles in mid-combat and CSI-like quests, along with some rare but not-quite-unique ones like vending (which is similar to Ragnarok Online) and professions. There are always random events, both PvE and PvP, and bounties that makes the game lively and keeps its contents fresh.So, if you like martial arts and immersive MMORPGs, then you should really give this game a go – you won’t regret it!