The game was a critical and commercial success, garnering positive reviews from critics and selling a total of 11.75 million copies as of September 2020, making it the ninth best-selling Nintendo DS game and the third best-selling Animal Crossing game. New to Wild World is online functionality in the form of the Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection, which allowed players to visit other players' towns over the internet until the service's discontinuation in 2014.

Like all games in the Animal Crossing series, the game is synced to the system clock, which affects the gameplay based on the current time and day.

It is the second main installment in the Animal Crossing series released outside of Japan, and it is a follow-up to the 2001 Nintendo GameCube game Animal Crossing.Īn open-ended game, Wild World follows a player-controlled human living in a town populated with animals and performing various tasks, such as interacting with characters and collecting items. Multiplayer (1–4 player local wireless/online)Īnimal Crossing: Wild World is a simulation game for the Nintendo DS released in 2005.

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