Yu-Gi-Oh! The Duelists of the Roses PS2 game

Yu-Gi-Oh! The Duelists of the Roses

2003

Overall rating: 3 out of 5

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Before Pokemon, would anyone have really taken the notion of card battling seriously? A game that's marginally more interesting than Top Trumps and essentially the same concept as the old paper, scissors and stone idea used to settle playground disputes (unless you were a hardcase, of course)? Well, for some reason gamers can't get enough of it lately and, subsequently, there's no shortage of card battle games. The PlayStation 2 is the latest machine to receive such an offering, part of Konami's popular GBA brand, Yu-Gi-Oh! In a novel way, this fantastical and magical video game is actually based on actual historical fact, more specifically the 15th Century English conflict, the War of the Roses. Thankfully, though, there are no 'bayonets at ten paces' shenanigans to endure here, Duelists of the Roses relies on the good old, tried and tested combat system of ridiculously explosive magic attacks and massive summoned monsters. The actual battles take place in the usual turn-based way, with each player able to summon up to five monsters on the battleground. Powers and abilities are governed by a range of factors, most notably card type, but also including location, offensive and defensive point values, and an experience-based rank system. The basic idea is to either reduce your opponent's Leader Points to zero or populate all of your opponent's summon squares on the battleground. Failing that, if you're still both standing after 99 turns then it's a case of the old 'whoever's got most points wins' idea. Putting an immensely complicated spin of one of the simplest of gaming concepts, Duelists of the Roses makes for an entertaining experience. Yu-Gi-Oh! Is an extremely popular series already - if you're a fan then you'll already be looking forward to this.

Yu-Gi-Oh! The Duelists of the Roses details

Format:	3 PS2
Players:	1
Genres:	Adventure, Role-playing
Developers:	KONAMI
Rental release:	26 Sep 2003

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yu-gi-oh is the best

By a customer from england , 25 Jun 2006

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the best game in card hirstry
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By a customer from Cardiff , 28 Feb 2008

I personaly think that this game is fun for a short amount of time but after you finnish the storyline (wich sadly doesent last long atall, it took me about 3 hours to finnish the whole game, and about 4 to get all the best cards in the game) so its good to start with, but it quickly starts to bore you, and finaly when you summon cards you need to move it along a kind of board (in total I think it has about 6-8 spaces) so thats quite annoying that you need to move each monster along a board just to do some damage, also you only have 4000 life points, so the duels dont last verry long.
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yu-gi-oh is the best

By a customer from england , 25 Jun 2006

the best game in card hirstry
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