Product Description

If life were an endless vacation, 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 vis

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #117 in Computer & Video Games
• Brand: Nintendo
• Model: 045496901363
• Published on: 2008-11
• Released on: 2008-12-05
• Rating: To Be Announced
• ESRB Rating: Everyone
• Platform: Nintendo Wii
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: .56" h x 5.41" w x 7.51" l, .36 pounds

Manufacturer's Description
Amazon.co.uk
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

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Gameplay
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

In a world of your own...
This Wii version of the GameCube and DS classic is a faithful port - it instantly looks familiar. The music is the same, the old characters are all there - only this time it's all a bit bigger!

If you've played Animal Crossing before then you know the drill - you buy a small house and work for the local entrepreneur to pay off your mortgage - then you get a bigger house! Along the way you decorate, make friends, plant trees (and shake trees!), go fishing, etc. Only this time you also have the option of catching a bus to 'the city' where there are extra venues to visit and a cinema.

The controls seemed a bit fiddly - but that's because I attempted to the play the game just using the wiimote, which is an option - but the game is best played with the nunchuck as well which makes moving around far more natural.

If you already have a well established DS Animal Crossing game and want to keep your character, then you can 'move' the character and duplicate them on the Wii - although I haven't done this - it appears to be pretty easy and uses the WiFi capabilities of both machines.

Animal Crossing for the Wii looks great - but not much different to the DS version. Fans of the series will no doubt love this game, in fact I think that most people would enjoy playing around in their own world but there doesn't really seem to be much new. Apart from a few extra features and additional items, you get the feeling that you've been there and seen it all before.

Alas I've not played around with the WiFi connection yet, and that's perhaps where the Wii version will excel. If you have friends with the game then they can come round and visit your virtual house without spending a fortune on petrol. If you have the Wii Speak package you can chat verbally as well as typing out messages.

In a nutshell: Animal Crossing: Lets Go To The City shouldn't be a great game as it offers little more from the previous offerings other than sound and picture improvements. You realise that the novelty of visiting the City soon wanes when a lot of what you get there are the things you'd normally get in your town on the DS version. *BUT*....

...This is an addictive little game which you can never complete as it simply goes on forever, or until you get bored and your town becomes covered in weeds and cockroaches. Although this is really only a glossier version of the DS game, it still feels fun. I wish there had been more new features - but you never know, Nintendo might drop additional things into the game via Wifi software updates. The main strength of this game is personalising your own space - and that is easier to do on a bigger screen. If you're buying this because you got bored of the DS version then you might be disappointed. If you're buying this because you love the DS version then you'll be delighted.

maybe 3 1/2 stars....
Yes i've given this game 3 stars, maybe if i could use half a star that would go on too...

It's hard for me to believe i havent even been playing Animal Crossing for a year yet. I started with Wild World in July last year, then got this one on the day it came out in December (thanks Amazon!) i also joined a fantastic site and have learnt so much about the game it feels like i've been playing longer.

Now, i love WW for my DS. I love the interaction with the animals, i also love waiting for a new townie and wondering who it will be. I love the small-ness (if that's a word) of my little, private town too, and the portability of it. i havent stopped playing it since i got AC-LGTTC. But this review isnt for WW so i will crack on...

Ok, the reason i didnt give LGTTC more than 3 1/2 is for quite a few reasons really. i was quite annoyed they didnt call it the US version which is simply City Folk. And they didnt make enough changes to the game. it's still the same old AC. Which for many people, i know, is good, but they could of changed simple things like the colour of the floor in the museum or changed colours in the town hall. Made little touches like that. The City itself is ok, but not something you need to visit all the time, it's quite a small area really. Only so much you can do there. The grass! Well that has made a lot of people not very happy! It wears away, a little thing Nintendo have named "Animal Tracks" it's supposed to help you have paths to the most frequented areas like Nooks. It's clearly not been tested out properly. What the developers forget is that to truly experience AC in all it's glory, you have to explore all of the town to get your fossils, take out the weeds, water flowers, plant trees, catch bugs, fish etc. So in next to no time your town is like a desert. And this can affect bugs, like the grasshopper not appearing. Thankfully i knew this before starting my game so i could lay out paths myself to frequented areas and so i have kept quite a lot of my grass by sticking to those. I'm also taking advantage of the fact that in Spring and Summer grass grows back quicker than in the snowy Winter (although it's still slowwwww but faster if you plant flowers) so i have planted more flowers around the edges of my paths and this has helped. So when Autumn and Winter come i should have nice grass. Also the animals in LGTTC dont seem to be as nice as they are in WW. I mean they dont seem to care about friendship. Another big factor is that you cant collect their pictures in this one like you can in WW so there doesnt seem to be any incentive to make friends/talk/write to them. Although i still talk to them, just dont write so much. And they are more repetitive in this one, and they dont have hobbies really. They just ask you to find fossils/clothes etc. give you a couple of days and then feel sad if you havent managed to get them what they want. There are more things i'm not keen on but i should stop there.

And i know, it just sounds like i dont like the game at all, but i do, there are good points to it. It's probably great if you have never played AC before and dont compare it to the others. It does have good points. Wifi is still there, although i can only visit others, i cant get visitors but i think i have a dodgy disc, i'm not changing it now that Dibley (my town) is looking lovely. I dont have wiispeak but it's nice hearing other people, especially Americans :P Holidays like Christmas and Easter are back so i really like that aspect. The tool shift using your D-pad, i really love that about it. And the graphics are better but i still think WW has great graphics! You can change Tom Nooks store too, so once you get Nookingtons, every month he will ask you what you look for in a store and depending on the answer you can get the store to change so the options are - variety =Nookingtons, balance =Nookway, good hours = Nook n Go, nothing much = Nooks Cranny. So i like that and since Nookingtons is only open till 9pm, i've downgraded to Nook n Go which is open from 7am - 1am and that will be great in Summer catching all those late night, expensive bugs. :D

So, for me i do prefer WW. But there are aspects of each game that i wish was in the other. I still say get the game. I do enjoy playing it despite my negatives. That's all, if you have the game or are getting it, enjoy :)

A really fun and addictive game.
I had never played an Animal Crossing game in the past and after much deliberation trying to decide whether to spend what little money I actually have on this game I decided to go for it. I have to say, I am not disappointed. It arrived promptly yesterday morning and I've only played it for a few hours but I'm already addicted.

There's a wide range of things to do once you've been left to your own devices. I have yet to discover most of these things, but fishing, bug catching, snowman building, clothes designing and meeting the various characters in my town has certainly kept me busy. I decided to skip the Wii speak software and I don't think this has lessened my experience at all. It is still a lot of fun.

In many other reviews it has been said that this game is not too different to the previous games. However, I can say as a first time Animal Crossing gamer, its great fun. So if you've never owned the previous games it is a must.