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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.

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.

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

Really dispointing!

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: January 25, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Yu-gi-oh finally comes to the x-box and I was waiting a long time for it and it wasent that good! Frist of all the monsters don't do anything it shows the picture of them then they do nothing when they attack! Then it take a really really long time to get good cards. You wont get trape and magic cards unless you play for a really long time! Then the people you battle are not very smart. I thought this would be a graet game but it is not that good. If you are a person who will plsy this for a long time you will like this game. The good things about the game are that it has a lot of diffrent cards and it has good grafics.

A definate for the fans.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 5
Date: November 05, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This is the best yu-gi-oh game out there except for the tcg. This resembles the card game the most out of all the card games i have seen so far. Its quite fun and if you are a fan of the tcg it comes with 3 trading cards you will enjoy.

Good game, good promos

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: August 19, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I like this game a lot. The thing I don't like about it is that the monsters don't use their real attacks, just some stupid thing. The promos are really good, but mine are coming in half. This is a must have for any duelist, you can combine strategies and use cards you don't have, which is the best.

The Best Yet

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: August 18, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I've not been a huge fan of the "Yu-Gi-Oh!" video games - up till now. "Yu-Gi-Oh!: The Dawn of Destiny" is definetly a cut above "Forbidden Memories" and "The Duelists of the Roses" (I don't have a GameCube.) The biggest problem with this game is the fact that it has no real storyline other than this: You're a beginning Duelist challenging master Duelists such as Yugi, Kaiba, Joey, Marik, and Bakura to Duels. Your first opponents are three Duel Robots, as Seto Kaiba (jerk) periodically taunts you between Duels. After defeating his scrap metal, you go on to more powerful Duelists. The graphics were great, but there wasn't enough of them; Each battle between two monsters lasts two seconds or so. This game was great because we finally get to play on the console with the REAL rules instead the variations we've seen in previous "Yu-Gi-Oh!" console games. I mean, "The Falsebound Kingdom" didn't even involve cards! Anyway, I wish this game had a storyline, because with all of the interesting characters (such as Bakura, Shimon, Ishizu, and other lesser characters) I reckon Konami could have put together a good one. Hopefully, the next "Yu-Gi-Oh!" will have a rich and exciting storyline combined with the original gameplay.

Good game, but not the best.

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: August 14, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Okay, I'm a Yu-Gi-Oh fan & have the Power of Chaos Yugi & Kaiba. I've never played any of the Gameboy or Playstaion versions so I have no reference other than the cartoon, the P.C. games & the very few tournaments I've been to. In my opinion this game follows the tournament rules basically to a tee. That is a good thing for people looking to really learn the game. But there's no tutorial & you need to know what the cards are because, when your opponent plays a spell of trap card they show it to you but you have no idea what's happening. I'm no Yugi expert so I don't know all the cards & having an opponent play a card & wondering, okay what now, is not very fun. At least the Power of Chaos games has a card description on the side for every card played, so when I encountered a card I wasn't familiar with I could see what it did before having to make my next move. But putting that aside it's also very cool playing against all of the characters form the cartoon. But, you're going to lose A LOT. They start you off with a few good cards but it takes forever to get better ones. Overall it's a good game but not for beginners

What the heck was konami thinking?!?!?!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: July 12, 2004
Author: Amazon User

this game was a huge disapointment, I got it thinking that i could enter my own cards, the gameplay would be similar to the real life metagame, the battles between monsters would have xbox worthy graphics, and the storyline would be deep, descriptive, and understandable. You just play against people that you choose from a toolbar. they dond even give you good cards to start out with, they expect you to beat people that have these semi complicated strategies, with crappy worthless cards like "Wretched ghost in the attic" The only good card i got was tri horned dragon. you dont even have any cards in your trunk at first. its likeyour character opened 5 packs of LOB, and then went off to challenge Yugi.

dont buy this game. however it can be a little fun if you want to duel and there is nobody around.

Definetly Could have been better...

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: July 09, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This game is kind of a disappointment. The visuals on the game are alright. Nothing spectacular. They get boring after a while. It seems like they just rushed this game out, since there was nothing out on the XBOX. They could have spent the time to make a game that utilizes the power of the console, but instead put out a game that had much more potential. They diin't make it XBOX live compatible. But that doesn't mean you can't play it online. If you have high speed internet, you can download tunnel software, such as XBox Connect or Xlink Kai. With these programs you can duel other duelists around the world. Not as good as Xbox live, but at least it is free. So over all this game could be better, but since i only payed 15 dollars for it. I guess i can't hate all that much on it.

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