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Good, but not for everyone.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 14 / 15
Date: April 13, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Yu Gi Oh finally comes to X-box with this game, and it is a mixed game. Don't expect a game with a story like Forbidden Memories or Falsebound Kingdom, this is mainly just a sim of the card game with the anime characters as your opponents. It has a few negative qualities, which I will list below.

Opponents AI can be a little lopsided. Sometimes they will be stupid, or very smart. Expect to lose quite a few times until you finally get some decent cards.

Getting cards isn't hard, but winning ones that can help you improve your deck isn't easy.

Graphics are decent, but not the best X-box can do.

However, these can be easily dismissed if your looking for a game that is true to the official card games rules. This game follows them almost exactly, and the fact that you get Dark Sage, Widespread Ruin, and the God Card Winged Dragon of Ra as the promo cards is a definate plus. Some might be turned off because of no story, but that is easily overlooked. Try it before you buy it if you're unsure, but it should be a buy for any Yugi fan with an X-box.

Yu-Gi-Oh! The Dawn of Destiny

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 7 / 8
Date: June 22, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Good game overall. Many characters from the show to duel against. Many different cards to win along the way. You can customize up to 3 decks and save your progress within 5 memory locations. Triple duels are fun; you play consecutively against a set of 3 characters to unlock the next set of 3 characters (with increasing difficulty of course). Eventually you'll run out of characters, which means you'll have to whip up on people you've already played against to increase your card collection.

Library mode allows for some great 3D views of the monsters. I guess most of the memory went to this end since graphics for the actual game seem fairly low-rez; it is difficult to read the text on the cards. The battle clips are short, and perhaps that's a good thing so as to keep the flow of the game going. The characters don't actually talk like in the PC games (Yugi The Destiny and Kaiba The Revenge), but the text of what they say matches their individual personalities.

My biggest gripe, some of the characters seem free to bend certain rules. For example, multiple copies of Pot of Greed, Graceful Charity, and Exodia pieces in a deck, or how about the ability to flip summon Man-Eater Bug and then shift it to defense position within the same turn without the aid of other card effects! For sure this game could be improved upon, but keep an open mind and it's tons of fun and a good way to practice your dueling skills.

Great, Fun, AMAZING!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 8 / 11
Date: March 31, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This game is great because of the 3D dueling and you also get the WINGED DRAGON OF RA! That caps off anything.

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.

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.

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, 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

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.

Yu-Gi-Oh! The Dawn of Destiny

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

I purchased the game without knowing about the 3 cards that came with the game. I knew it had 3, but the last thing I had expected was to see them being Widespread Ruin, Dark Sage and the Egyptian God Monster card, "The Winged Dragon of Ra

The 2 hottest cards being the God card and Dark Sage in the Japanese version are now in English.

The game play is also very good too. I loved the fact that it follows tournament rules.

This is the game to get for the XBOX and especially if you are a Yu-Gi-Oh! fanatic like I am.

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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