Animal Crossing tends to take over your imagination and you start wondering what is happening in your town at all hours of the day and night, because life never stops in Animal Crossing. Be warned, it can become an obsession....read the complete Animal Crossing: Wild World review at GameShark
UnderGroundOnline
As the name implies, you'll be interacting with quite a few animals, as your new village is chock full of walking, talking beasts. In many ways, Animal Crossing defies description in that it's not a role-playing game or an action game or a strategy game....read the complete Animal Crossing: Wild World review at UnderGroundOnline
The game starts off again with shopkeeper and loan shark Tom Nook showing you the ropes by offering you a part-time job, which has to be completed before you can wander around on your own or go online. You'll meet the animals living in your town, write...read the complete Animal Crossing: Wild World review at Planet Gamecube
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Wouldn’t it be something if you could have a home away from home where you could fish, collect items such as fruit, fossils, and many other things, and even form bonds with understanding neighbors? How great would it be if the beach, other towns, the...read the complete Animal Crossing: Wild World review at DS Advanced
An amazing gaming experience. It has something for everyone: fishing, bug hunting, philanthropy (i.e. donating fossils to the museum), epistolatory madness, costume design, music composition, empire building and much more....read the complete Animal Crossing: Wild World review at Netjak
Just RPG
With no big battles, mesmerizing graphics, or frustrating challenges, Animal Crossing plummets the player into a new, relaxed world, where your only concerns are to meet the animals, find all species of fish and bugs, excavate ancient fossils, and of...read the complete Animal Crossing: Wild World review at Just RPG
But the graphics are actually improved over the console version in many ways, the biggest being that the world now looks like youre on top of a mini-globe instead of a completely top-down, birds-eye-view. You can actually see trees and houses come into ...read the complete Animal Crossing: Wild World review at WHAM! Gaming
Lawrence
Like the GC version, you’ll start out by working for the local landlord/shop owner/raccoon Tom Nook to pay off your mortgage. You’ll perform tasks such as planting flowers and introducing yourself to your neighbors. Early on, your own abode is...read the complete Animal Crossing: Wild World review at Lawrence
Amped IGO
Sure, anyone can design their own “Pen Fifteen” flag and t-shirt in real life. But only in Animal Crossing: Wild World can a designer rest assured that the fat blue pig next door is actually wearing that shirt....read the complete Animal Crossing: Wild World review at Amped IGO
It could be labeled as that but after playing it, this reviewer really doesn’t think so. Think of it like this. Animal Crossing Wild World is an advanced version of an already great game. Not a sequel, but an improvement on the console version. Those...read the complete Animal Crossing: Wild World review at Jive Magazine
ThumbBandits
That is how Animal Crossing begins and your social life as you know it ends, because from that point forth this title will consume your very being. For those of you that have not had the joy of Animal Crossing on the Gamcube (review here – Ed.) this...read the complete Animal Crossing: Wild World review at ThumbBandits
The game starts out relatively similar to the GameCube version in which you are new to town and need a place to live. After you have picked your gender, given yourself and your town a name you will need to find Tom Nook so that he can build you a house....read the complete Animal Crossing: Wild World review at Videogame City
feels forcedGraphics: 8Not top-of-the-line, but cutesy and reflective of each player's personal styleSound: 7Cutesy music, but annoying "voicework" Replay: 9.5I dare you to find a reason not to keep playing thisOverall: 9...read the complete Animal Crossing: Wild World review at DailyGame
Computer and Video Games
look - and on it goes. More impressively, even when you think you've finally taken all the Animal Crossing you possibly can, all it takes is for another mate to pick up the game and you'll be sucked in all over again as more items squeak tantalisingly fro...read the complete Animal Crossing: Wild World review at Computer and Video Games
You also find yourself developing relationships with the residents of your town. Even though there’s only a handful of “personality types” for each character, the sheer amount of brilliantly written dialogue makes each character truly feel like an...read the complete Animal Crossing: Wild World review at DarkZero
For those poor souls out of the loop, the events of Animal Crossing play out as such: You're a human moving into a new town, populated by animals. Day turns to night, seasons change, and residents move in and out. Meanwhile, you pay off your house, fill...read the complete Animal Crossing: Wild World review at Yahoo! Games
Cubed3
As well as yourself, there are up to eight co-inhabitants of your town, as well as a number of set NPCs that act as shop workers, like good old Nook, or town guard dog double act Copper and Booker. Which animals you get living in your town are totally...read the complete Animal Crossing: Wild World review at Cubed3
Like its prequel, Wild World begins within the eyes of our character whilst traveling to an unknown destination. Sitting in the back seat of a taxi the rain cascades heavily on the vehicle’s windscreen and sitting just in front is a driver called...read the complete Animal Crossing: Wild World review at NTSC uk
The online portion of Animal Crossing: Wild World is based entirely on Nintendo's ‘Friend Code' system. This means that you cannot just visit any town, it has to be one that belongs to someone you have registered as a ‘friend' on your system. This...read the complete Animal Crossing: Wild World review at GamerDad
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