Based on a collectible card game, the Yu-Gi-Oh! video games have proven to be nearly as popular as Nintendo's venerable Pokémon series over the years. Updated regularly and often packed with a set of limited edition cards, the games allowed players to hone their playing skills in the virtual realm as well as buffing their real-world decks with a few new cards. Alas, even in the gaming world, things must evolve, and to that end, Konami decided to tap into the Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D animated series for inspiration.
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?"
