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Pokémon Ranger: Guardian Signs

The third installment in the action-packed Pokemon Ranger series lets players take on the role of a Pokemon Ranger tasked with protecting Pokemon, people and nature. With Ranger Signs to call powerful Pokemon…

69 6 March 2010

Pokémon Ranger: Guardian Signs is an adventure developed by Creatures Inc., released 6 March 2010 on Wii U and Nintendo DS.

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What Pokémon Ranger: Guardian Signs is

Pokémon Ranger: Guardian Signs is an adventure game developed by Creatures Inc. and released in 2010. It was published by Nintendo. It is available on Wii U and Nintendo DS.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Pokémon Ranger: Guardian Signs is an action role-playing video game developed by Creatures Inc. and published by The Pokémon Company in Japan and by Nintendo worldwide for the Nintendo DS. It is the sequel to Pokémon Ranger and Pokémon Ranger: Shadows of Almia, and the third installment in the Pokémon Ranger series. It was released in Japan on March 6, 2010, in North America on October 4, 2010, and in Europe on November 5, 2010, and was later released on the European Wii U Virtual Console on June 9, 2016. Gameplay revolves around capturing Pokémon with the Capture Styler by drawing circles around them. The game received mixed or average reviews, holding a score of 68 on Metacritic and 69%…
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How it plays

It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action and fantasy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.

Where it sits in the Pokémon series

Pokémon Ranger: Guardian Signs is the 162nd of 306 entries we hold in the Pokémon series. The next entry was Wobbuffet's Puzzle Pack in 2010. Its critic score of 69 is 5 points below the series average of 74. The highest-rated entry is Super Smash Bros. Melee at 100.

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How it was received

Pokémon Ranger: Guardian Signs holds a critic score of 69 out of 100. That places it above 32% of the 7,530 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2010 averaged 70, so it scored about average for its year.

What it launched against

Pokémon Ranger: Guardian Signs launched on 6 March 2010, within three weeks of Batman: Arkham Asylum Game of the Year Edition, God of War III, Metro 2033 and Battlefield: Bad Company 2. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Batman: Arkham Asylum Game of the Year Edition, God of War III, Metro 2033, Battlefield: Bad Company 2.

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Pokémon Ranger: Guardian Signs was released on 6 March 2010 for Wii U and Nintendo DS.

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