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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.

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.

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.