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Yu-Gi-Oh! The Dawn of Destiny

Yu-Gi-Oh! The Dawn of Destiny is a strategy video game with over 1,000 Yu-Gi-Oh! cards that integrates the trading card gameplay and rules with 3D monster battles. Players engage in strategic duels against AI…

50 23 March 2004

Yu-Gi-Oh! The Dawn of Destiny is a card & board game developed by Konami Computer Entertainment Japan, released 23 March 2004 on Xbox.

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What Yu-Gi-Oh! The Dawn of Destiny is

Yu-Gi-Oh! The Dawn of Destiny is a card & board game game developed by Konami Computer Entertainment Japan and released in 2004. It was published by Konami. It is available on Xbox only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Yu-Gi-Oh! The Dawn of Destiny is a strategy video game with over 1,000 Yu-Gi-Oh! cards that integrates the trading card gameplay and rules with 3D monster battles. Players engage in strategic duels against AI opponents, exploring various game modes including Link Duel and Triple Duel modes, which offer fresh challenges and test players' skills against multiple opponents simultaneously.
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How it plays

It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are fantasy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer, Single player and Split screen.

Where it sits in the Yu-Gi-Oh! series

Yu-Gi-Oh! The Dawn of Destiny is the 22nd of 91 entries we hold in the Yu-Gi-Oh! series. The next entry was Yu-Gi-Oh! Power of Chaos: Kaiba the Revenge in 2004. Its critic score of 50 is 13 points below the series average of 63. The highest-rated entry is Yu-Gi-Oh! Legacy of the Duelist: Link Evolution at 85.

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How it was received

Yu-Gi-Oh! The Dawn of Destiny holds a critic score of 50 out of 100. That places it above 8% of the 303 rated card & board game games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2004 averaged 70, so it scored 20 points below the year average.

What it launched against

Yu-Gi-Oh! The Dawn of Destiny launched on 23 March 2004, within three weeks of Far Cry, Unreal Tournament 2004: Editor's Choice Edition, Syberia 2 and Unreal Tournament 2004. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Far Cry, Unreal Tournament 2004: Editor's Choice Edition, Syberia 2, Unreal Tournament 2004.

Official trailer

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Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.

Quick answers

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When did Yu-Gi-Oh! The Dawn of Destiny come out?
Yu-Gi-Oh! The Dawn of Destiny was released on 23 March 2004 for Xbox.

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