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1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: June 25, 2004
Author: Amazon User

The game box advertises over 1,000 cards. The total is 1017. Considering the number of real cards in the real game, this is squat. What makes it worse is that at least half of the cards included in the video game are some of the worst that are found in the real game. This already makes the early duels boring beyond belief. There are plenty of characters to duel against, but it never appears as if you're actually dueling them. All you ever see of the characters is a portrait and a little dialogue blurb at the beginning and end of each duel. For an Xbox game, there isn't much in the way of graphics. Speaking of which, many were anxious to play this game because of the battles in the duels. They are not battles. The monsters stand on opposing sides in the same pose despite the card's position on the field. Then one of the monsters gets one of less than ten different animations spread over it and either disappears or remains on the screen. This style of gameplay would probably only appeal to gamers on the run who would be better off buying a GBA title and playing a duel while waiting for the bus. An Xbox title should be so much more than this game ever set out to be.

No Story, Nothing to Unlock, No reason to keep playing

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: December 23, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This game is OK if all you want is to play some duels for a few hours and then move on. But once you beat all the characters, there's nothing more to do. You're left feeling like "Okay, what? Why did I just play this game?"

There is no storyline to the game. Just a series of triple duels you can play and once you beat the 15th triple duel, nothing else happens. Sure, you can get new cards by playing people over again, but what's the point if there no one else to play.

In addition, your opponents are fairly easy and become quite predictable, so you don't even need a great deck to do very well.

You do start with fairly integrated starting decks, which is about the only strong point.

I was very dissatisfied with this game. Overall, I like Yugioh games, but this one was very simple and utilized very little strategy. I would reccommend any other Yugioh game before this one.

Looks better than it is

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: March 28, 2004
Author: Amazon User

My 8 year old is a Yu Gi Oh fanatic...a real card collector and my 4 year old likes game battling. When you look on the back of this XBox game, it appears to be a game where you play the actual card game and then battle your monsters.

[...]BR>1. You cannot play a 2 player game unless your buddy down the street bring over HIS XBox console WITH his OWN Yu Gi Oh game and you have a system LINK cable. (What 8 year olds do that anyway) Anyone playing this game will want to battle other players not the Computer Players!

2. There is no actual batlle. The monsters flash in front of you very fast. You get a 3 second glimpse of them

Very dissapointing [...].

Better than the card board

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: April 28, 2004
Author: Amazon User

If you like the cartoon and cards and been waiting for some thing to play closs to the cartoon this is it.

not much of a good game

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: June 20, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This is okay because you get the Winged Dragon of Ra. But I don't like the game. At first, you begin to like this game a lot, but soon you begin to lose interest in this game. One problem is that the cards you get. The cards you get aren't that great. You only get cards from Blue Eyes White Dragon to Pharaonic Guardian, promo cards, Japanese cards, and some animated scards. Another is the 3D battling. The monsters only appear when they attack and all you see is 3 second glimpse of the attack. It doesn't actually look they were attacking. Also this game has no story mode. There's no story making it very boring. If you're a Yugioh freak, buy it. Otherwise, I would recommend you rent it.

CCG Fans & Yu-Gi-Oh Fans will enjoy it

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: September 20, 2005
Author: Amazon User

The plus side: This game can be quite addictive. The same formula that CCG companies use: Putting a few rare powerful card in each pack, translates well into this game, as you duel opponents and get thier cards. You end up playing over and over to see what cards you get when you win.

There are two ways to win cards:
1) Duel vs. single opponent.
Reward if win: 3 cards, and they usually are more powerful or are the rare ones.
Reward if loss: NOTHING!
2) Duel vs. Triple tier. Reward is based on how many opponents you defeat.
All 3: 5 cards
2: 4 cards
1: 3 cards
0: 1 card
The cards come from the player you lost to, or all three if you beat the tier.

The last player in the tier is then unlocked in single mode.

This makes you play over & over to unlock opponents, then duel them in single mode. Since this game is so cheap, compared to other Xbox games, it is a bargain for money vs. time played.

Now the bad news: I was really disappointed in the graphics. The attack animations are very poor, and worst of all: you cannot tell what your opponent is playing, because the cards are so small on the screen. I've wasted good cards on poor monsters since I could not tell what it was.

Next, to get cards, you pick a statue, but different cards are in different statues and there is no way to tell which cards are in which statue. The ability to pick one & get 2 random would have greatly helped.

Lastly, this game is VERY poorly designed or programmed. Limited cards (only one to a deck) are only limited for you, the computer has multiple copies. One duelist, Rare Hunter, has multiple Exodia pieces, and card drawing out the yang, he will get Exodia in about 10 turns. Also, CPU decks start out with excellent, rare cards in thier starting hands. I've had Yami Yugi bring out Magician of Black Chaos (ultra-rare, ultra powerful card, need 8 stars of tribute, a summon card & the Magician cards at the same time) on the first turn 3 times. The odds of winning $175,000 dollars on the Mega lotto are better than that.

So, in a phrase: The computer cheats. It will not attack a card if its ATK is less than the DEF of your card. It will flip summon a card, then immediately shift it to defense mode, which is illegal. If you have high ATK & DEF card face down, it will not summon face up, so you can't bluff the computer.
This means that the frustration factor is very high, so kids, (and a lot of adults) will probably turn off the game, then get turned off of the CPU tactics and stop playing.

So if you are a fan of CCG or Yu-Gi-Oh go ahead and get it, otherwise look elsewhere.

Simply amazing!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: March 27, 2004
Author: Amazon User

finaly a 3d yugioh game on a big console. I'm glad I have a reason to dust off my xbox. The game is wonderful but the promo card gimic egyptian godcard which is forbidden is horrible.. I thought upperdeck had more sense than to release a god card before it could see legal tournament play.

Good news and Bad news... Very Bad news...

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: June 23, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I am overjoyed to say that we have some good news, and that we have some bad news. But to make you read this whole review that I worked so hard to type up, I'm giving the bad news first. The bad news is: Yu-gi-oh has come up with the most ingenious way to blend stalling phase-change animations that wind up being half of the actual game, incredibly stupid quotes from the opponents, and animations that are far too short, dull, and repetitive. Honestly, I bought this game thinking that I would get to play the card game when nobody was around and have nice animations, but the animations just aren't even remotely interesting. Okay enough bad here's the good news: Konami has other games that you might like depending on what kind of game you want. If you want good animation, get duelists of roses. If you want someone to play the actual game with when nobody else with cards is around, get Stairway to the Destined Duel. Trust me, this game sucks.

Konami: If you're reading this, you could make this game good by using the animation idea from duelist of roses, giving the player some GOOD cards to start out with, and making the gameplay quick and smooth. I would suggest no lengthy chain animations for phase changes.

Not for beginners

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 5
Date: April 14, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Controls & Navigation - 4 - The menu and fields could use
improvements
Graphics & Music - 2 - Graphics are okay, but music gets
repetative after awhile
Entertainment - 3 - It was fun for awhile, but getting beat up
on CONSTANTLY tends to wear you down.

Overall - 3 - Definatly not for beginners and patience would be
a GOOD thing, especially with the starting cards
you get.

god card in this is fake

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 5
Date: July 07, 2005
Author: Amazon User

this may not be about the game but the god card is not real if it has limitted edisin on it so i say show the god card on the web site

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