Yu-Gi-Oh! Duelists of the Roses

by Konami

Product 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

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00006F2ZT
• Product Dimensions: 7.5 x 5.5 x 0.5 inches ; 6.6 ounces
• Media: Video Game
• Release Date: February 18, 2003
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (165 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,746 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
  • #7 in Video Games > PlayStation 2 > Strategy

Product Description

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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

Product Description

Yu-Gi-Oh! Duelists of the Roses lets the duelists clash yet again, with all-new more powerful decks!

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134 of 145 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Master Duelist Says:, October 5, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Yu-Gi-Oh! Duelists of the Roses (Video Game)

INCREADABLE! There really isn't anything more to say, I mean the first time I saw this game I was blown away by how detailed and animated it was! The graphic are amazing and the game-play is just as good as Forbidden Memories. After all Duelist of Roses is the sequal to Forbidden Memories. Travel through the entire duel monsters world, while battling opponents and winning cards. You as Yami Yugi are once again called to save your kingdom from the evil mage, Seto. Explore many places and theres even a new feature, if you press buttones in certain places you can find secret cards. This is a exquisite game and it is very well made. It is worth buying and i highly recommend that all Yu-Gi-Oh! lovers should get it!

18 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars PREVIEWED IT, August 26, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Yu-Gi-Oh! Duelists of the Roses (Video Game)

I have actually played a demo version while at E3 and I enjoyed it thoroughly. They only had enough to play 3 cards in 1 duel but from the response of the game, the graphics and the story I just thought it was amazing.
Its up to you to buy it when it is released but I know I will.
Ive been waiting for them to finish and release it for a nice long while.
Im about 20 and love the whole concept but hey thats just me.
If you like the cartoon and the other games at all then you should get a kick out of it.
:)

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars A Big Big letdown!, February 26, 2003

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Bill Cole "Bill" (Pittsburgh, PA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Yu-Gi-Oh! Duelists of the Roses (Video Game)

After such great games as Forbidden Memories and Eternal Duelist Soul, you would think that a Yu-gi-oh game for a next generation sytem would be amazing. Well if you want to judge it by it's graphics, then Ok it is decent, but if you want to judge it on gameplay it might be one of the worst games I have ever played. I am a huge yu-gi-oh fan, I have all the US released games and ove 15 real card decks, and on top of that I am 25, say what you will about my age but I am not ashamed. This game is NOTHING like the real card game, the show, or any of the other games. You have to move your cards around the board like checkers and be right next to your opponents monster to attack it. Another thing is this leader thing, When you start the game you pick a deck, for each deck there is a leader, for example mine is Luminous Soldier. You use him to move around the board and summon you cards, if you opponent attacks your leader, regardless of your leaders attack or defense, it gets deducted directly from your life points. Another downfall is it is hard, I mean really really hard. I am all for a challenge but this goes beyond that, it is difficult to win, even against your 1st opponent, it also pretty hard to grasp how the game plays. It is far to difficult for kids. I would say one of my biggest problems with this game is that the codes on your real cards are 100% useless on this game, they are not compatible, not a single one. So all the hard work of getting a good deck with great cards don't matter on the game. The only really good thing about this game is that you can choose which side you want to play the game as in the beginning. White rose side which is Seto Kaiba or the Red rose side which is Yami Yugi. You play different ememies and you follow different story line depending on who's side you pick.
I had pre-ordered this game a good 2 months before it came out, anxious to play another great yu-gi-oh game instead I got a huge [expensive piece of junk]. Why doesn't Konami make a yu-gi-oh game that follows either the real card game completly or the show completly or at least a mixture of the two, I know the rules aren't consistant on the show and keep changing, but at least try. The other Yugi video games had some big flaws in that they too didn't consistantly follow either the show or the card game but they at least came close enough to make them enjoyable. Why won't they give us what we the true fans want. If you are a true fan of the card game, you probably wont like this game, yes it can be fun to watch your favorite monsters battle it out, but get Forbidden Memories for that.