| Yu-Gi-Oh! Duelists of the Roses |  | From: Konami
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Rating:  162 reviews
Platform: PlayStation2
Genre: strategy-game-genre
ESRB: Everyone
Media: Video Game
Number Of Items: 1
Age: 5 - 20 years
Operating System: PlayStation 2
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.5 x 0.5
MPN: 20043
UPC: 083717200437
EAN: 0083717200437
Release Date: February 18, 2003
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Choose to follow either of two unique stories - the latest adventure for Yugi or Kaiba | | • | Incredible new Card Movement Battle System means a new level of strategy for becoming the Supreme Duelist | | • | The onscreen action stays exciting, with over 680 fully 3D-rendered monsters | | • | Battle across a dozen locations throughout Europe, and duel head-to-head with friends in multiplayer mode | | • | Includes 3 Exclusive Limited Edition Trading Card Game cards |
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Product Description
Yu-Gi-Oh! Duelists of the Roses lets the duelists clash yet again, with all-new more powerful decks!
Like the Pokémon games, Yu-Gi-Oh! Duelists of the Roses is essentially a computerized trading-card game. Unlike Pokémon, however, Duelists of the Roses is distinguished by a peculiar historical-fiction context and a startlingly steep learning curve. Yu-Gi-Oh newbies be forewarned: This game is better suited for die-hard fans. Not only does the story of Duelists of the Roses stray from the Egyptian setting of the cartoon show, it strays into a fictional history of the War of the Roses, a 15th-century civil war for the English throne. In this version of events, the war was fought with cards, not swords and bows, and series-protagonist Yugi is actually Henry VII. There are lots more real and adapted history in the game, but it's really just stage dressing for a series of card battles. Players can choose to fight for the side of Yugi and the house of Lancaster or for the Rival house of York. Either choice leads to different opponents and cut-scenes along the way. The gameplay itself falls between the simplicity of rock-paper-scissors and the complexity of chess. Players blindly deal monsters off a deck against what your opponent pulls, and the stronger monster wins the hand--and the winning opponent gets the balance of points between the winning and losing cards from the losing player. When a combatant's life points are gone, the game is over. Duelists of the Roses introduces a leader card to the game, which players use to store their life points and to earn special abilities. Also new is a terrain map that will influence the power of the cards being drawn. For example, pulling a water monster near the ocean will pack more power than a fire monster. What makes the game so hard is that the computer opponent is an ultimate master of the game's many arcane rules and the in-game tutorial is a little rushed. The game is forgiving to losers; one needs simply to try the battle again and hope for better luck. The graphics and sound are a little disappointing, but it is the first time we've seen these card monsters in 3-D. --Porter B. Hall
Amazon.com Product Description
Yu-Gi-Oh! Duelists of the Roses features all of your favorite characters from the Yu-Gi-Oh! animated TV series. The new card-movement battle system encourages strategic gameplay, while 680 beautifully rendered 3-D monsters keep the onscreen action exciting and engaging. The game includes three exclusive trading cards.
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 Great game, with a few flaws April 23, 2010
Daniel Wilson (Pennsylvania)
Well first and foremost it's a good game. Graphics are good, gameplay is interesting but gets kind of slow at times. It has an interesting environment that's new compared to some other Yu-gi-oh games. The way you collect cards at the end of the duels with the slot machines is pretty interesting. If you're looking for something new, this is a good choice.
But, like any other game, it has some flaws. The most noticeable one is the intro! It is so long and annoying! It's not even a cutscene or anything. It's just a ridiculously long series of text boxes that have to be gone through one at a time. Even going through as fast as you can it takes forever. Next is the difficulty. It's a very hard game. You are given a choice of several decks to start with, but they all suck. Not only that, but your opponent always gets the field terrain advantage. This goes both ways, as I would rather have a challenge than a breeze-through, one hour long game, but it's just too hard.
A pretty good game overall, just takes a very long time to get through.
 ps2 YuGi duelist of the roses August 21, 2009
Al Toranzo (Chicago USA)
I had purchased this game when it first came out,my son was a little young then it was hard to play for him.
Now the second time around we found it most entertaining, I would recommend your child be at leat 8yrs old to enjoy it to its fullest.
 Great game horrible seller. July 18, 2009
Maryanne Amaro (Poughkeepsie, NY)
Great game for anyone that likes yugioh to be alitele different and realistic :) but I has problems with this seller it took me to email them for them to even ship it after 10 days so just make sure to do routine check ups with them !
It's okay if your a fan April 22, 2009
TwistaG (Moncks Corner,SC)
Yu-Gi-Oh! was a popular manga that spawned into an anime and a card game. While I expected the first Playstation 2 Yu-Gi-Oh! game to follow the story of the anime; it doesn't. Yu-Gi-Oh!: Duelist of the Roses takes place in an alternate reality, and even though you will recognize the characters, there is no relation to the anime's story. If you are a fan of the anime then this will disappoint you, but Yu-Gi-Oh! is not just about the characters; it's about the card game Duel Monsters.
In Yu-Gi-Oh!: Duelist of the Roses you will notice something different about the way Duel Monsters is played. The game is played on a huge grid, in which each duelist is on opposite sides of the grid. The grid comes off as being a chessboard. In fact, the whole game is played almost like chess. You and your opponent start off with a deck leader (which in a way acts like the king). The deck leader allows you to play different cards in order to protect your deck leader or attack your opponent. You can place cards at the right, left, front, or back of the deck leader. Each card can only move one space and with the objective being to get a card through your opponent's defenses in order to wipe out the deck leader. Once an opponent's life points have been reduced, you win the duel. After reading that you probably think this game is easy. Wrong! This game is insanely difficult even for a skilled player at Yu-Gi-Oh!. I can assure you that when you play this game for the first time you will lose. It is very hard to defeat the first opponent in this game due to the game's high difficulty level. It appears as though the opponent always draws the card they need, and always have stronger monsters than you. However, the game does have a neat feature where you can combine cards to create stronger ones. There is a drawback to this feature and that is that if you don't know which cards to fuse you lose both of the cards, making he game that much more difficult.
There is one really cool thing about the way the card battles are done in this game. When two opposing cards land on the same space a 3-D battle takes place. You can tell some time went into the development of the stages and monsters when you see them. The monsters actually look like how they look on the card, which is a big, plus for Yu-Gi-Oh! fans. The only bad thing I could find with 3-D battles is that they tend to get repetitive. All of the monsters only have one attack animation, which does get boring after playing an hour-long duel. That is why the option of turning them off was included, which was a good idea.
The graphics in this game are rather dull except for the 3D battle graphics. The traveling portion of this game is represented with a map and arrows. On this map you get to challenge your opponents. You then get to travel further on the map once you beat an opponent. The only problem with this map is that it could have looked better. Aside from the game's great opening, which features the 3D models of the cards, everything else is just average. I think with one more year the game could have looked amazing.
The music in this game is neither great nor poor. It is a mix of techno and rock music, but it doesn't really go well with this type of game. The music in the 3D battles varies depending on which type of field the characters are at. For example, if the cards are on a grass field you get nice peaceful music. Overall, the music in this game is average at best. The sound effects in this game are the usual hack and slash, nothing really special.
Duelist of the Roses has a tremendous amount of replay value. There are plenty of things you can do once you complete this game. These things range from collecting cards to making your deck stronger. The game encourages you to go back and get stronger cards, as you will need them once you get to the final duel. If you're a big fan of Yu-Gi-Oh!, this game will keep you busy for a while.
Overall, Yu-Gi-Oh!: Duelist of the Roses is a run of the mill game. When you play this game you feel as though this game should be better than it is. I just hope the next Yu-Gi-Oh! game they come out with will be better. Despite its shortcomings, this game is still worth a rental for Yu-Gi-Oh! fans.
Not what most people are expecting May 20, 2008
Cynthia Cooper (Somerville, MA)
First of all, ignore the backstory. This game could very easily have been set at any point in history; aside from inspiring the classical background music, the setting has as much influence on gameplay as in any Yu-Gi-Oh game: nil.
Duelists of the Roses is a cross between Duel Monsters, Dungeon Dice Monsters and shogi (not chess). Duels are fought on a 7x7 board; you have a Deck Leader that represents your encampment, and from there summon monsters from your hand to the board to fight for you. Monsters move around in different ways and the boards and comprised of varied (and mutable) terrain, so there is a great deal of maneuvering to lure your opponents onto ground that will favor you.
Aside from the fusion mechanic, which combines specific weak monsters to make stronger ones and requires experimentation and taking notes, the game is remarkably simple and -- provided you have the manual or the strategy guide -- easy to learn. (Do NOT attempt to play it without either. The in-game tutorial is terrible.)
Overall the game is fun, although very hard at first ... for the most part I see this as being a two-player game, with the NPC opponents as a means of training. (Once you have a decent deck you can stomp the AI in any match.) I'd recommend it more to wargamers and strategy gamers than Yu-Gi-Oh fans, though. Really, it's far more fun against an opponent who can actually think, and I don't believe there is any online play function.
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