Game

Animal Crossing: Wild World

2005 · Wii U · Nintendo DS · Simulator

77IGDB player score
158 ratings

Previously Take

A 77 average that undersells it — ask the 158 people who rated it. This is a sandbox for business, sandbox obsessives, from Nintendo. Relaxing in a way few games manage. The story is the main course; the multiplayer is the reason it's still installed years later. A 2005 original that still holds up — they don't make them like this anymore, literally.

About this game

Players move into a living, breathing world inside the Nintendo DS...and then invite their friends to visit from anywhere on earth. In Animal Crossing: Wild World, the sequel to the popular Nintendo GameCube game, players and up to three friends can hang out in the same village and interact in real time -- either through wireless LAN or over Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection. Players can visit a friend's village from thousands of miles away. The touch screen makes item management and world navigation a breeze. Typing letters and designing patterns are now just stylus strokes away. Days and seasons pass in real time, so whether players want to decorate their homes, catch bugs or fish, collect brand-new items like hats and sunglasses or just chat with the wild and wacky characters in their villages, there's always something to do.