100
While kids will love the bright and colourful characters and graphics, adults will love the subtle nuances of collecting, decorating, Feng Shui, natural history lessons and sheer delight of pleasures as simple as catching a huge bass in the nearby river.
90
The game that never ends... So why is it so much fun to play? [Feb 2003, p.96]
90
It's easy to see why everyone in Europe was importing this from the US; there is simply nothing else like it.
10
It's a really fun and laid back GameCube game where you can just relax and enjoy the atmosphere. Animal Crossing has a memorable character design as well as a cool art direction. You can do interesting activities like digging and fishing. You can also decorate you home any way you please. I remember when I was a kid and this game was new for the first time. Now it's a retro game but this classic in my opinion is still worth playing. You just need a good memory card to store you saved data in and you're good to go!
10
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8
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Animal Crossing
GameCube
Released On:
Sep 15, 2002
Metascore
Generally Favorable
87
User score
Generally Favorable
8.6
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100
A highly addictive and entertaining game, with hundreds of hours of depth available. The animals are cute, with their own personality quirks. And if they annoy you, just remember they can't read.
91
It looks plain on the surface, but once you've established yourself in your new town, you won't be able to put the controller down. Not for everyone, but very good. [Oct 2002, p.38]
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Dec 29, 2025
10
It's a really fun and laid back GameCube game where you can just relax and enjoy the atmosphere. Animal Crossing has a memorable character design as well as a cool art direction. You can do interesting activities like digging and fishing. You can also decorate you home any way you please. I remember when I was a kid and this game was new for the first time. Now it's a retro game but this classic in my opinion is still worth playing. You just need a good memory card to store you saved data in and you're good to go!
90
It's in real time, so if you go a week without visiting your town, a week will have passed there and your neighbours will ask you where you've been.
90
The game that never ends... So why is it so much fun to play? [Feb 2003, p.96]
85
Unlike most developers Nintendo can take an ingenious and unusual idea and turn it into an inventive game of discovery and fun. This, you might say, is the Nintendo difference.
80
It's certainly not perfect and isn't for everyone; however if you're looking for something suitably different, something that you can just whack on and enjoy for a few hours here and there and more importantly something so Nintendo, then you may just end up devoting your life to Animal Crossing.
70
Certainly not for everyone, this "life simulator" seems tailor made for the younger set. [Oct 2002, p.83]
Oct 12, 2022
10
A Gamecube classic that still has aged well. I recommend it to people of all ages and I promise you it will never get old.
Feb 5, 2014
7
This game is good, has just as much charm and character of the other games, but there are things here that are quite monotonous that get fixed in the other games. This game is good, but It pales in comparison to city folk and new leaf. It's just hard to love as much as those games. And those close up graphics. Ewucguh, :(
Apr 1, 2023
5
Yeah, I know that a lot of people love this game, but it definitely could have been a lot better. The problem is that they were originally gonna get Francis Ford Coppola as the director for this game, but he was busy with the Godfather part III (which I've never seen), so he had to be replaced with some other guy instead. And the other guy clearly didn't understand how to make a good game, because this game is riddled with glitches and bizarre decisions. For example, there's this glitch where you will NEVER receive oranges unless you start with oranges or peaches. Stuff like that makes the game unplayable compared to modern games with microtransactions.
Sep 1, 2011
4
i bought this game in the advice of a friend who just raved how great the game was and we usally like the same games. this how ever was not one of them . the game is basically like the sims to a point except feels like it was made for a 5 year old. i even gave the game a chance and played it for about 15 hours . all i did was get more and more bored of what i was doing which wasnt much because ultimatley there isnt much to do in this game. i mean unless your idea of fun is collecting dinosaur bones , fish , butterflys, and doing delivery quests also collecting clothes and makin your house better looking . there is no fun gameplay at all . i wanted so bad to take that shovel and beat all the other anamals to death with it but it wouldnt let me >< . all i could do is send them threatening letters which i would only get a response to i couldnt understand your letter. i dont know whats hard to under stand when you tell them to "go die you jerky **** head moose" . the game is differnt ill give it that but its made for a very certain typ of person and i am not that person.
Mar 27, 2020
3
Great game. But again, like every other review. It's 1 island per switch system! Which is ridiculous and player 2 literally cannot do anything on the island. Absolutely ridiculous if you ask me
SummaryAnimal Crossing allows you to interact with a virtual village of animals that are doing something different every minute of every day. With Animal Crossing's 24-hour clock, the game's unique events can be in synch with real time--as day turns to night in the real world, the sun will also begin to set in the game. The dynamic setup requ... Read More
Rated Efor Everyone
