Animal Crossing: City Folk | 
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Category: Video Games
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Rating:  68 reviews
Sales Rank: 102
Platform: Nintendo Wii
Genre: artificial_life_simulation_games
ESRB: Everyone
Media: Video Game
Edition: Standard
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Age: 5 - 20 years
Operating System: Nintendo Wii
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.3 x 0.6
MPN: RVL P RUUE
Model: 045496901363
UPC: 045496901363
EAN: 0045496901363
ASIN: B001CM0PR8
Release Date: November 16, 2008
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| Features:
| • | DS Suitcase mode included which lets you carry your character from your Wii console to a friend's. | | • | A living, breathing gameplay environment where there is always something to do. | | • | Multiplayer support up to four players and 'Wii Speak' microphone functionality available (Mic sold separately). | | • | Extensive custotomizing options allow you to visit the salon and give your Mii a makeover. | | • | Befriend your animal neighbors by exchanging letters, gifts and favors in order to bring their memories and stories from their old towns into the game. |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.com
If you were given the keys to your own community, what would you do? Go fishing, collect shells or watch fireworks with friends? Build a snowman, exchange presents with family or decorate your house for the holidays? Take a trip to the city, go on a shopping spree or visit friends from all over the globe? In Animal Crossing: City Folk, life moves at a relaxed pace, but the world brims with endless possibilities. 
Build your own community | 
Enjoy mini-games against friends.
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Get to know your neighbors.
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Play at all hours of the day.
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Feel free to have company over.
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You make the whole story, as you and up to three other players move into a town and just live life. Befriend your animal neighbors, decorate your house with cool furnishings, fill up your wardrobe, get to know the local wildlife, hop on a bus to visit the new city and just explore the world. There are a million different ways to play. Every charming animal character has a personality: some are grouches while others are chatterboxes. And there's no final goal or high score to hit. The game keeps going for as long as you want to play, and your town will always be there when you return. Move into town, buy a house and then do whatever you want. Time and seasons pass as they do in the real world, so there's always something different happening. Collect more than 2,400 items, go fishing for rare and interesting fish, catch all kind of cool bugs, dig up dinosaur fossils and buried treasure, hang out with other players or spend the day in the city. There's so much to do, and you have all the time in the world to explore it all. DS Suitcase Mode
The DS Suitcase lets you carry your character from your Wii console to a friend's, thus giving people without an Internet connection the ability to experience multiplayer modes. Additionally, you can move your character from Animal Crossing: Wild World on Nintendo DS and play as him/her in Animal Crossing: City Folk. Key Game Features
- There's Always Something New To Do: In the living, breathing world of Animal Crossing: City Folk, days and seasons pass in real time, so there's always something to discover. Catch fireflies in the summer, go trick-or-treating on Halloween or hunt for eggs on Bunny Day. If you're in the mood for something a little faster paced, take a bus to a new urban city area that's unique to Animal Crossing: City Folk. There you can catch a show at the theater or check out the sales at Gracie's boutique. But if you don't show your face back home for too long, your neighbors will miss you.
- Play With and Hear Up to Four Friends: Up to four people from your household can live and work together to build the perfect town. Design clothes and patterns, write letters and post messages on the bulletin board for each other, or play online using your broadband connection and invite up to three friends to visit your town using Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection. With the new optional Wii Speak microphone (sold separately), it's like you're all in the same room. The microphone sits atop the sensor bar and picks up the conversation of everyone in the room to encourage a more inclusive experience.
- Get to Know Your Neighbors: The heart of Animal Crossing: City Folk is building relationships with the animals in your town as well as with other players. Befriend your animal neighbors by exchanging letters, gifts and favors. Animals can also move from town to town, bringing their memories and stories from their old towns with them. And since animals are notoriously loose-lipped, they spill all the juicy details.
- Express Your Personal Style: Customize your town, your house and yourself by collecting bugs, fish, fossils, art, furniture, clothes and accessories. You can also go to the salon in the city to change your hairstyle and get a Mii makeover. Plus, if you design clothes in the tailor's shop, animals will wear them and maybe even bring them to other towns.
Your Neighbors
Familiar faces such as K.K. Slider, Tom Nook, Blathers and Mr. Resetti all appear, as well as a bunch of new characters like Festivale host Pavé and Bug-Off judge Bud. Many characters who occasionally visited your town in previous Animal Crossing games have now set up permanent shop in the city, so you can see them anytime. Special Powers, Weapons, Moves & Features:
Use the Wii Remote pointer to type letters, use items, draw designs for clothing or wallpaper, drag clothing or items onto your characters, interact with animals or objects, or lead your character around the world. Use Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection to hang out in real time with up to three of your friends. You can also send them e-mails and text messages from the game. Play at different times of the year to experience different activities, holidays and seasons. And when visiting a friend in another country, experience the holidays native to their culture. Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection
Up to four people can play together in real time via Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection. The host opens his or her gate to allow friends into the town, where they can perform all sorts of activities: fish, write letters to townsfolk, shop at the store, swap items, play hide-and-seek ... anything. Up to four players can interact in real-time, communicating via text chat, mic chat and emoticons. WiiConnect24:
Using WiiConnect24, you can buy and sell items to friends by participating in silent auctions, view actual players' homes in the Happy Room Academy office or send letters to other players' towns.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 63 more reviews...
 fun game January 6, 2009
The game is very similar to the DS game. One drawback is only one person can play at a time.
Same Old, but Still Fun January 6, 2009
I am such a sucker; only a sucker would buy the same game 3 times. My family owned the old Gamecube version of Animal Crossing; we played it into the ground. When my sister moved out with it, it was only logical that I get my own version -- this time, for the Wii.
There were some things I wish that had been ported over from the Gamecube version. Anyone remember the gold spots? Blanca, the faceless cat on the train, whose face you drew horrible things on (one giant eye, the Superman logo, an upside-down face) so that later players would see her walking through town and break into laughter? The fact that there were 10 "soft spots" in the ground for digging up fossils (rather than a measly four), and all kinds of old NES games to collect? These things haven't come along. In fact, this game reminds me much more of Wild World than of the first Animal Crossing, from the "rolling barrel" worldview to shooting presents out of the sky. I suppose that's fine; those were all small features. It's still a lot of fun and the gameplay remains unchanged.
For the new and uninitiated, this is a game worth trying. Think "The Sims," except without any structure or story. There is a challenge to pay off the mortgage on your house, all the while building the house as large as you can. You collect fish, fossils, paintings, and bugs, opting either to sell them or put them in a museum (one of my favorite features!). You also collect furnishings, wallpapers, and carpets, and decorate your house to your heart's content. The seasons change, and there are fishing tourneys, bug hunts, and special holidays, all dependent on the month or time of day. Characters appear at certain times of the year, certain times of day, and on certain days, which means there's almost always something new and fresh to see. The appearances of fish and bugs also change with the seasons and time of day.
There are plenty of things to decorate yourself with. Clothes, umbrellas, hats, even your Mii's face -- the possibilities are endless!
You make "relationships" with the little animals populating your game, send them letters, and visit them on their birthdays and give them gifts. Each character has its own little personality; it's a ball to see them having conversations and being allowed to "listen in" on them!
My favorite part about City Folk is that it has addressed the problems with Wild World -- the City. You can go to the city, buy contraband from Redd, get a haircut, learn emotions, and put your items up on auction. My favorite element is that I can finally visit Gracie Grace whenever I want.
But my very favorite element about this game -- about all the Animal Crossing games -- is its pleasantness, its laid-back atmosphere, its friendly "play whenever you want, however you want" atmosphere. After playing a harsh, hard-core game like Bioshock or a very fast-paced, competitive game like Mario Kart or Super Smash Brothers, I like to come back to Animal Crossing, take it easy, and do a little fishing.
Now, to look at the hardware. Although you can play this with a Wiimote, I suggest using a Nunchuk. It makes your movements more accurate. For catching fish and bugs, this is a necessity.
I haven't gotten to use the WiiSpeak with Animal Crossing yet, but when I do, I'll be sure to update this review appropriately.
All in all, this is a must-buy. If you're not sure you'd like this, rent it and try it out. It's definitely something you'll either adore or hate, depending on your nature -- if you hate something with no structure, no plot, no real "game" to it, then this probably isn't the game for you.
Although even you might be pleasantly surprised.
It's Animal Crossing, Only Better January 3, 2009
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Animal Crossing: City Folk for the Nintendo Wii is Animal Crossing as you know and love, only better.
Think of this version as evolutionary, not revolutionary.
The game itself is very similar to the old Animal Crossing for the Nintendo Gamecube. You'll still fish and run errands to earn money for various items - from home remodeling to furniture and clothing, but now there's even more cool items to spend money (Bells) on.
Many of the characters from the original Animal Crossing have returned in Animal Crossing: City Folk, including Tom Nook, the mayor, and many of the town residents.
If you liked the original version, you'll like this one. Likewise, if you didn't like the first one, you wont like this one either. In my home, Animal Crossing: City Folk has been a hit with everyone from age 11 to 43.
What's improved?
- Movement is much quicker.
- No hesitation between "acres".
- Larger town.
- Ability to travel to the city.
- Ability to speed through long text dialogs more quickly.
- Graphics (although, they remain true to the original feel).
- Control. The Wiimote is a natural for this game.
- Much greater variety of fish to catch.
- More characters.
- More character customizations, including hair and makeover changes. You can even choose to make your character look like your Mii characters.
What hasn't improved?
- You'll still eventually run out of challenges and become bored. But it takes a while.
- Fishing is actually more difficult now.
- Resetti is still a pain.
- Character jokes are still lame.
Overall, this is a good game. There's nothing earth-shattering here, but it's entertaining.
 Fun but only one player January 2, 2009
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This game is fun, but you can only play one person at a time in the same household. I understand that you can connect to someone else and play with them online and visit each other's towns, but it seems like it would be fairly simple to allow multiple people in the household to play simultaneously as well. However, this is not an option.
You can create up to 4 "people" on the game, however, none of those people can meet each other in town at the same time. As a result, the toon that I created cannot meet my son's toon in game, which is sad.
Let's Go To Animal Crossing January 2, 2009
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The game is called Animal Crossing: Let's Go To The City in Europe, but I like the shorter US name better: Animal Crossing: City Folk.
The gameplay, graphics and music haven't changed that much since the N64 version. But I don't think that is a problem, since everything fit fine with the game.
I like that you can press the 1-button an take a screenshot and save it to a SD-card. That's how I made all the screenshots for my blog.
The game never ends. You collect insects, fish and dinosour skeletons which you can donate to the local museum. When you have played by yourself for a while, you want to travel or invite people to your town. You need a friendcode from people to travel to their city.
Is this a good game? YES. Does it offer anything new (if you played some of the other versions)? NO, not realy. But I recommend it for old and new Animal Crossing players.
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