Jade Empire vs Soulcalibur: Lost Swords
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.
Soulcalibur: Lost Swords
Soulcalibur: Lost Swords is an extension to the series where you play one of 3 characters on a quest to recover shards of weapons and upgrade and improve your own. With a story to follow and new characters to open up as you play there is a continuing arc that grabs you and brings you in. With the fighting style gameplay that the sage is renowned for and characters you know and love (or hate) you are off on a new adventure.Once you choose your character you are able to set out, once chosen they are the only character you can play until you find keys and items to open up more. There is an option for your enemies to drop items you can use, and you can fully customize your avatar as you play. Though there are some limitations over more full versions of the game, for a free to play title there is a lot of fun to be found here, and of course more of the ongoing story too.