Reception
Reception | |
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Aggregate scores | |
Aggregator | Score |
GameRankings | 86.6% |
Metacritic | 87 |
Review scores | |
Publication | Score |
Famitsu | (N64) 32 of 40 (GC) 37 of 40 |
Game Informer | 9 of 10 |
GamePro | |
GameSpot | 8.1 of 10 |
GameSpy | |
IGN | 9.1 of 10 |
Upon its release, Animal Crossing was subject to critical acclaim. It was named the seventh best game of all time on the Nintendo GameCube by the television show X-Play on the television network G4. On IGN, the game holds an "outstanding" 9.1 rating.
Animal Crossing was also rated the fifth-best GameCube game by ScrewAttack on their "Farewell to the GameCube, ten GameCube games" list, saying, "It's a game that plays even when you're not and can last up to 30 years!" The game's popularity inspired the creation of an animated film based on Animal Crossing: Wild World, which was released exclusively in Japan.
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Famous quotes containing the word reception:
“I gave a speech in Omaha. After the speech I went to a reception elsewhere in town. A sweet old lady came up to me, put her gloved hand in mine, and said, I hear you spoke here tonight. Oh, it was nothing, I replied modestly. Yes, the little old lady nodded, thats what I heard.”
—Gerald R. Ford (b. 1913)
“Hes leaving Germany by special request of the Nazi government. First he sends a dispatch about Danzig and how 10,000 German tourists are pouring into the city every day with butterfly nets in their hands and submachine guns in their knapsacks. They warn him right then. What does he do next? Goes to a reception at von Ribbentropfs and keeps yelling for gefilte fish!”
—Billy Wilder (b. 1906)
“Aesthetic emotion puts man in a state favorable to the reception of erotic emotion.... Art is the accomplice of love. Take love away and there is no longer art.”
—Rémy De Gourmont (18581915)