Konami has announced its first Yu-Gi-Oh! title for Wii. Entitled Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's Wheelie Breakers, the game will be released in September.
IGN writes: "Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's Wheelie Breakers is definitely not for everyone, as it has a steep learning curve and takes a while to get into and wrap your head around. It also may not be for people who aren't already at least partially familiar with the popular card battling brand. But if you're a kart racing fan who's ever wondered what the genre could be like with extra layers of depth and strategy placed overtop the familiar race-to-the-finish-while-throwing-things design concept, Wheelie Breakers is a game you should make yourself familiar with quick".
GameZone writes: "What's left to say about Yu-Gi-Oh! after all these years? The incredibly popular card franchise has been around since the mid-90's and hasn't lost any steam since its debut as a manga in the Shonen Jump magazine. Within the video game medium, the license has often been used as your standard card-battling affair, so there hasn't been any room for innovation or surprises for the series. But now, to break the mold of card battling video games, Konami has released a kart racing game around their important license."
VGC writes: "The Nintendo Wii has been a system of many milestones, but one of the oddest is that it seems to be the system with the most games of the exact opposite genre you would expect it to be in. First came Soul Calibur legends, which shed its fighting routine for a hack and slash motif. Then came Castlevania Judgment, which turned out to be a fighting game. And now I have in my hand a copy of Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's Wheelie Breakers, a Yu-Gi-Oh kart racing game. The premise of the game is pure wackiness as you are literally playing a card game while racing on a motorcycle, but that's beside the point. The question is: is Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's Wheelie Breakers a good game?"
