Reception
| Reception | |
|---|---|
| Aggregate scores | |
| Aggregator | Score |
| GameRankings | 88% (52 reviews) |
| Metacritic | 87% (51 reviews) |
| Review scores | |
| Publication | Score |
| 1UP.com | A |
| Allgame | |
| Electronic Gaming Monthly | 8.5/10, 9/10, 9/10 |
| Eurogamer | 9 out of 10 |
| Game Informer | 6.75 out of 10 |
| GamePro | 4.25 out of 5 |
| Game Revolution | B |
| GameSpot | 8.9 out of 10 |
| GameSpy | |
| GamesRadar | |
| GameTrailers | 8.8 out of 10 |
| GameZone | 9.4 out of 10 |
| IGN | 9.5 out of 10 |
| Nintendo Power | 9.5 out of 10 |
| Official Nintendo Magazine | 87% |
| X-Play | |
| Gamestyle | 9 out of 10 |
Upon release, Elite Beat Agents was critically acclaimed, receiving an average score of 87.7% on GameRankings. From the date of its release to November 28, 2006, Agents sold 120,000 copies. Reggie Fils-Aime has stated that while sales were strong, he was disappointed that they were not better, having expected 300,000 copies sold in light of critical acclaim. He has also stated that he hopes that Nintendo can work with iNiS on a sequel. Only 179,000 copies of the game have been sold in North America by January 2009.
Elite Beat Agents won several awards in 2006. It won the Nintendo DS game of the year award from both IGN and from Nintendo Power. IGN gave it several other DS-specific awards, including Best Music Game, Best Artistic Design, Best Story, Most Innovative Design, and Best Licensed Soundtrack. They also awarded its developer, iNiS, with best developer for the DS for its development of Elite Beat Agents. Nintendo Power gave it several other awards as well, including Best Nintendo DS game, Best Music Game, Best Alternative Game, and Best New Character in regard to the Agents. They later named it the best Nintendo DS game released and the seventh best game of the decade. Other notable awards include Best Music/Rhythm Game from GameSpot, an entry on the list of "52 Games We'll Still Be Playing From 2006" from Gaming Target, Best Puzzle Game from GameTrailers, and Quirkiest Game from Electronic Gaming Monthly.
Read more about this topic: Elite Beat Agents
Famous quotes containing the word reception:
“To the United States the Third World often takes the form of a black woman who has been made pregnant in a moment of passion and who shows up one day in the reception room on the forty-ninth floor threatening to make a scene. The lawyers pay the woman off; sometimes uniformed guards accompany her to the elevators.”
—Lewis H. Lapham (b. 1935)
“Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own; which is the chief reason for that kind of reception it meets in the world, and that so very few are offended with it.”
—Jonathan Swift (1667–1745)
“To aim to convert a man by miracles is a profanation of the soul. A true conversion, a true Christ, is now, as always, to be made by the reception of beautiful sentiments.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)