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basic

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 14
Date: March 30, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Not worth the money, No story mode and you start out with just the basic cards 43 in all. If you want to spend the next year just to build the deck that you want. Just a cut and paste. Gameboy game is more interesting with better cards.

Where to begin

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.

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.

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.

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.

Yu-gi-dud?

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: May 01, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Yu-gi-oh: Dawn of Destiny finally came out for x-box. For me, it was a long wait for something I could sink my teeth into, being an avid Duel Monster Card Game collector and player. I did not expect another smash hit like Halo, but I was hoping for something a little more in depth. I was disappointed at first when I received the game, but that view later changed. I tried to view the game in two ways. 1) as a gamer and 2) as a Yu-gi Fan.

1) As a gamer, this game is definitely poor. There is nothing appeasing or positive about this game coming from a typical gamer. Someone who is not remotely interested in Yu-gi-oh would most likely find this game boring. There is no definite plot you follow (or at least I haven't found yet), although you do pick up some hints and pieces of a very very very subtle plot. Graphics are low quality and most likely could have been duplicated on an N-64. The buttons are limited and at first very repetitive. I found myself getting very annoyed and just start hitting a button to get out of a window and found I had accidentally skipped over my attack phase or set a card face down and not face up. This is a game I would strongly recommend renting before buying for an avid gamer who doesn't know too much about Duel Monsters.

2) For the Yu-gi-oh fan who's looking to play some dueling, this game is it. It takes a little bit, but the rules are in accordance with the actual duel game.
The perks as a fan: 1) Official game playing, for those who know and want to play the game. 2) Opponents can be a little stupid at times, but then can present a real challenge as time goes on. 3) Actually able to use trap and magic cards. 4) Ability to link to other counsels and duel against friends. 5) Collect cards and find your favorite cards then put them in your deck. 6) Great collector cards inside.
The downsides: 1) could have done more with graphics and actual game play. (i.e.: When summoning a monster, the monster appears on the field and not just when it is attacking or being attacked.) 2) Messages your opponents say become very repetitive very quickly. 3) Could have done a lot more with putting x-box live on it and actually taking the game to the next level. 4) Winning cards isn't hard, but winning the cards you want is extremely irritating and difficult. 5) Despite going by the rules, the game itself seems to become repetitive. Opponents seem to have many of the same cards as you play as well as say the same thing over and over. 6) It's a pain in the butt that you can't discard cards on the field yet the computer can. A glitch I'm sure the company forgot, but an annoying one nonetheless.

I'm sure many players will find other perks as well as other downsides. If you are a fan and there's no one to ever duel with, this is your game. This game is not the worst game out there, but like I said, I strongly recommend renting the game or borrowing it from someone before deciding to buy it; even IF you are a fan.

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

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.

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.

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