Animal Crossing: New Horizons
| Animal Crossings: New Horizons | |||
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| Original title | あ つ ま れ ど う ぶ つ の 森 | ||
| transcription | Atsumare Dōbutsu no Mori | ||
| Studio | Nintendo EPD , Monolith Soft | ||
| Publisher | Nintendo | ||
| Senior Developer | Aya Kyogoku | ||
| composer | Sayako Doi | ||
| Erstveröffent- lichung |
March 20, 2020 | ||
| platform | Nintendo Switch | ||
| Game engine | LunchPack | ||
| genre | Life simulation | ||
| Game mode | Single player , multiplayer | ||
| control | Joy-Cons | ||
| medium | Game card , download | ||
| language | German | ||
| Current version | 1.4.2 | ||
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Animal Crossing: New Horizons is a life simulation game developed and published by Nintendo . The game was released worldwide for the Nintendo Switch on March 20, 2020 . Animal Crossing: New Horizons is the fifth regular installment in the Animal Crossing franchise.
Gameplay
Animal Crossing: New Horizons follows the gameplay of the Animal Crossing series , in which the player moves into a city that is inhabited by animals and interacts with them. Like its predecessors, Animal Crossing: New Horizons is a real-time simulation. However, in Animal Crossing: New Horizons, the player moves to an island.
At the beginning of the game the player chooses the appearance of his character and whether he would like to move to an island in the northern or southern hemisphere . Then the player selects an island from a selection of four different islands. Together with Tom Nook , who organizes the trip through the “Ripe for the Island Package” from his company “Nook Inc.”, and his nephew Nepp und Schlepp, the player flies to the island in a plane. In addition, two other animal neighbors accompany the player to the island at the beginning.
publication
During a Nintendo Direct on September 13, 2018, Nintendo announced that an Animal Crossing title for the Nintendo Switch was in development and should appear in 2019. In a Nintendo Direct on June 11, 2019 at E3 2019, Nintendo unveiled the game's title, Animal Crossing: New Horizons , and postponed the release date to March 20, 2020. During the following days of E3, Nintendo showed more gameplay for the Nintendo Treehouse Game. On February 20, 2020, Nintendo published a Nintendo Direct for Animal Crossing: New Horizons , in which more information about the game was given and updates were announced.
reception
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| Average rating | |
| source | rating |
| Metacritic | 91/100 |
| Press coverage | |
| source | rating |
| IGN | 9/10 |
| GameSpot | 9/10 |
| 4players | 80% |
| GamePro | 90% |
Animal Crossing: New Horizons received almost exclusively positive ratings. On Metacritic , the game's Metascore - based on 109 reviews - is 91 out of 100 possible points.
Sales figures
In Japan, Animal Crossing: New Horizons sold over 1.88 million copies in its first three days of sale. So it sold more often than the previous Animal Crossing games in the first three days of sales. The game is the best-selling Nintendo Switch game in Japan.
In the UK, Animal Crossing: New Horizons sold more in stores in its first three days of sale than any previous Animal Crossing game combined in its first three days of sale. With that, it got the best single Nintendo Switch game sales launch in the UK as well.
In the first twelve days of sale through March 31, 2020, Animal Crossing: New Horizons sold 11.77 million copies worldwide.
Animal Crossing: New Horizons sold 5 million digital copies worldwide in its first month, more than any other console game in a month to date.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Animal Crossing: New Horizons. In: Nintendo. Retrieved February 22, 2020 .
- ^ Andrew Webster: Animal Crossing: New Horizons: hands-on with Nintendo's adorable Switch life sim. In: The Verge. February 20, 2020, accessed on February 29, 2020 .
- ↑ Tom Hoggins: Nintendo Direct: Animal Crossing Switch, Luigi's Mansion 3 and all the other news. In: The Telegraph. September 15, 2018, accessed on February 22, 2020 .
- ↑ Thomas Steidle: E3 2019 // Developers of Animal Crossing: New Horizons share extensive details about the title. In: ntower. June 11, 2019, accessed February 22, 2020 .
- ↑ Sebastian Zeitz: Animal Crossing Direct: Summary of all information about New Horizons. In: Gamepro. February 20, 2020, accessed February 22, 2020 .
- ↑ a b Animal Crossing: New Horizons for Nintendo Switch. In: Metacritic. Retrieved May 7, 2020 .
- ^ Samuel Claiborn: Animal Crossing: New Horizons Review. In: IGN.com. March 16, 2020, accessed June 2, 2020 .
- ↑ Kallie Plagge: Animal Crossing: New Horizons Review - Island Getaway. In: gamespot.com. March 20, 2020, accessed June 2, 2020 .
- ↑ Jens Bischoff: Test (evaluation) for Animal Crossing: New Horizons (simulation, Nintendo Switch). In: 4players.de. March 16, 2020, accessed June 2, 2020 .
- ↑ Ann-Kathrin Kuhls: Animal Crossing: New Horizons in the Test - The First Switch Kracher 2020. In: gamepro.de. March 20, 2020, accessed June 2, 2020 .
- ↑ Tom Phillips: Animal Crossing: New Horizons is Japan's biggest Switch release ever. In: Eurogamer. March 25, 2020, accessed on March 25, 2020 .
- ↑ Ryan Craddock: UK Charts: Animal Crossing: New Horizons Absolutely Smashes It Out Of The Park. In: Nintendo Life. March 23, 2020, accessed on March 25, 2020 .
- ↑ IR Information: Sales Data - Top Selling Title Sales Units. In: Nintendo. March 31, 2020, accessed May 7, 2020 .
- ↑ Worldwide digital games market: March 2020. In: Superdata. April 22, 2020, accessed April 24, 2020 (American English).