Standard Edition
StandardUS$34.99 at launch
In the box
- Nintendo DS game card
- Case with cover art
- Instruction booklet
Nintendo DS
Animal Crossing: Wild World
Animal Crossing: Wild World is a 2005 social simulation video game developed and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo DS handheld game console. It was released in Japan in November 2005, in North America and Australia in December 2005, and in Europe in March 2006.
Simulator
- Update patch
- No patch
- Time to beat
- about 66.5 hours
- Plays offline
- Partly
Overview
Animal Crossing: Wild World is a 2005 social simulation video game developed and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo DS handheld game console. It was released in Japan in November 2005, in North America and Australia in December 2005, and in Europe in March 2006. It is the second installment in the Animal Crossing series, and the sequel to Animal Crossing on the GameCube.
Wild World focuses on living in a remote village populated with anthropomorphic animals, where the player character is encouraged to perform a number of tasks, such as collecting and planting. Like all Animal Crossing titles, the game is synced to the console's clock and calendar, allowing the game to be played in real-time, which affects the occurrence of in-game events based on the current time of day or season. Wild World utilized Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection, which allowed players to travel and visit the villages of other players via online play, until the service was shut down in May 2014.
The game received positive reviews upon release, garnering aggregate scores of 86/100 on Metacritic and GameRankings. Wild World is the ninth best-selling game on the Nintendo DS with 11.75 million copies sold worldwide as of March 31, 2016. It was additionally re-released on the Wii U Virtual Console in October 2016.
Official trailer
Trailer. Watch on YouTube
Gameplay
Animal Crossing: Wild World - Nintendo DS Gameplay High Resolution (DeSmuME), John GodGames. Watch on YouTube
Screenshots
Game details
- Genres
- Simulator
- Developer
- Nintendo Entertainment Analysis & Development
- Publisher
- Nintendo
- Series
- Animal Crossing
- Platforms
- Wii U, Nintendo DS
- Age rating
- ESRB E
- Modes
- Single player
- Yes
- Co op
- No
- Age ratings
- ESRB
- E
- PEGI
- 7
- USK
- 0
- ACB
- G
- CERO
- A
Release dates
| Platform | Region | Date |
|---|---|---|
| Nintendo DS | Japan | 2005-11-23 |
| Nintendo DS | North America | 2005-12-05 |
| Nintendo DS | Australia | 2005-12-08 |
| Nintendo DS | Europe / PAL | 2006-03-31 |
| Nintendo DS | South Korea | 2007-12-06 |
Editions
Space and patches
Update patchNo patch
Playable today
Playable offline todayPartly
Town life and local visits still work; online visits and gifts are gone.
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Price at release | US$34.99 |
| Ever released on disc | Yes, on Nintendo DS game card |
| Ever released in the store | Yes, 13 October 2016 On the Wii U Virtual Console. |
| In the store to buy today | No The Wii U eShop closed on 27 March 2023. |
| Can be downloaded again if you already bought it | Yes Wii U Virtual Console purchases can still be downloaded again. |
| Disc runs with no patch | Yes |
| Disc runs with the final patch | Does not exist No patch was ever released. |
| Has online features | Yes Town visits, item and pattern trades, and gifts from Nintendo over Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection. |
| Online servers running today | Shut down Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection closed on 20 May 2014. |
| Playable offline today: campaign | Yes |
| Playable offline today: local multiplayer | Yes Up to four players in one town over local wireless. |
| Playable offline today: online multiplayer | No Online play ended on 20 May 2014. |
Online
Plays offlinePartly
Reception
- Aggregates
Outlet Platform Score Scale Metacritic DS 86 100 - Critics
Outlet Score Scale Computer and Video Games 9 10 Electronic Gaming Monthly 7.8 10 Eurogamer 8 10 Famitsu 37 40 GamePro 3.5 5 GameSpot 8.4 10 GameSpy 4.5 5 IGN 8.8 10 Nintendo Power 9.5 10 Nintendo World Report 9.5 10
Staff and cast
- Staff
Role Name Developer Nintendo EAD Publisher Nintendo Director Hisashi Nogami Producer Katsuya Eguchi Designer Ryuji Kobayashi Programmer Masaru Nii Artist Koji Takahashi Writers Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka, Toshihiro Kawabata Composers Kazumi Totaka, Asuka Hayazaki
Notes for collectors
- The first Animal Crossing with online play: friends visited each other's towns over Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection.
- Up to four players, one resident and three visitors, can be in a town at once.
- A 2006 revision of the card fixed the Gulliver UFO glitch and updated the profanity filter.
- The Wii U Virtual Console version has no local or online play, so items and villagers that came through them are missing.
- Characters can be moved to Animal Crossing: City Folk on Wii.
- 11.75 million copies sold by March 2016.
Credits
- Publisher
- Nintendo
- Developer
- Nintendo Entertainment Analysis & Development
- Director
- Hisashi Nogami
- Released
- 2005-12-05
- Age rating
- ESRB E
- Region
- US
- Time to beat
- about 66.5 hours
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