lutomes- yu-gi-oh is unbalanced but that's what makes it so much more fun. In reality if you have a friend with a reasonable deck the game is pretty much balanced and the battles can have a lot of stragety in them to.
Anyway I have to say Worldwide Edition completely sucks. Konami have screwed up what once was a decent game.
It's not that I mind playing using the same field graphic style for the 3rd time (other 2 being DM6 and EDS) but what annoys me is that Konami have actually made this version worse than it was before....
Firstly you have to recognise the crap translation. Spelling mistakes, some strange grammar construction and very odd words and names even spelt incorrectly (eg. Tea introduces herself using her Japanese name, then on the mpa they use her english name).
Secondly there are some horrible coding mistakes when making this version. Konami try to fit the whole name across the card (even though the full name is above it anyway) but considering how the cards are smaller than the real life counterparts you only end up with about half the name appearing on the card (eg. Dark Magici). Also the points system is screwed up. In DM6 it cost you 500 points to use a password input but now it costs nothing, and yet we know it's a mistake because they've left the actual points counter in.
Thirdly Konami havemessed up the actual card game and rules themselves! Now, completely contradicting with the rules mentioned in the card game booklet, if you attack a monster with an attack the same as the opponents defence when they're in defence mode their monster gets killed (whereas in the rulebook nothing happened as they are equal). This is not the only mistake, in EDS there were loads so I'd suspect that just as many have sneaked their way into this version. Also they have "censored" some of the cards as such. In addition to the ones they also did in EDS for example changing the images on a topless woman and an axe with a skull on, in this version so far I've seen Bakura's DEATH cards (a set of magic and traps which spell the word DEATH and earn you an instant win) get changed to FINAL! Just how fucked up is that!
To ass insult to injury Konami kindly added other bad changes to the game. Now you can't hold B to make the cards setting animations any faster and you have the same crap made up packs like in EDS instead of proper ones.
All this leads me to believe Konami don't employ play testers, which wouldn't surprise me if it was true. Why do Konami have to screw up everything good?
p.s The AI no different from DM6 (ie. pretty easy), ok it's more difficult than EDS but that's not exactly saying much, is it?