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Yu-Gi-Oh! The Falsebound Kingdom

Yugi and his friends are trapped in a virtual reality world gone crazy. As Yugi or Kaiba, you must form a team of three monsters to occupy towns across two different scenarios and take part in strategic team…

46 5 December 2002

Yu-Gi-Oh! The Falsebound Kingdom is a real time strategy (rts) developed by Konami, released 5 December 2002 on Nintendo GameCube.

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What Yu-Gi-Oh! The Falsebound Kingdom is

Yu-Gi-Oh! The Falsebound Kingdom is a real time strategy (rts) game developed by Konami and released in 2002. It is available on Nintendo GameCube only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

The Yugi storyline involves Yugi, as well as Joey, Tristan Taylor, and Téa Gardner being invited to the testing of the virtual reality game "Kingdom," created by the company SIC. When they enter the game they soon find themselves trapped within it, and they must summon the help of the game's characters and monsters in order to defeat the game's villain, Emperor Heishin, and ultimately stop the plans of the game's designer, Scott Irvine, to control the three Egyptian God Cards. At one point in the Yugi storyline, some of your friends are brainwashed and you must fight them. Kaiba's storyline features Seto Kaiba and his brother Mokuba Kaiba, who are also trapped in the game. Initially they…
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How it plays

It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are fantasy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Single player and Split screen.

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

Yu-Gi-Oh! The Falsebound Kingdom is the 16th of 91 entries we hold in the Yu-Gi-Oh! series. The next entry was Yu-Gi-Oh! Reshef of Destruction in 2003. Its critic score of 46 is 17 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 Falsebound Kingdom holds a critic score of 46 out of 100. That places it above 5% of the 612 rated real time strategy (rts) games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2002 averaged 68, so it scored 22 points below the year average.

What it launched against

Yu-Gi-Oh! The Falsebound Kingdom launched on 5 December 2002, within three weeks of Metroid Prime, The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker, Metroid Fusion and Gothic II. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Metroid Prime, The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker, Metroid Fusion, Gothic II.

Official trailer

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Quick answers

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Yu-Gi-Oh! The Falsebound Kingdom was released on 5 December 2002 for Nintendo GameCube.

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