Product Description

Includes Wii Speak

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 visit friends from all over the globe? In Animal Crossing: Let's Go To The City, life moves at a relaxed pace, but the world brims with endless possibilities.

• There's Always Something New To Do: In the living, breathing world of Animal Crossing: Let's Go To The City, 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: Let's Go To The City. There you can catch a show at the theatre or check out the sales at Gracie's boutique. But if you don't show your face back home for too long, your neighbours will miss you.
• Interact With 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 invite up to three friends to visit your town using Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection. With the new Wii Speak microphone, 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 Neighbours: The heart of Animal Crossing: Let's Go To The City is building relationships with the animals in your town as well as with other players. Befriend your animal neighbours by exchanging letters, gifts and favours. Animals can also move from town to town, bringing their memories and stories from thei

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1647 in Computer & Video Games
• Brand: Nintendo
• Model: 045496901370
• Released on: 2008-12-05
• ESRB Rating: Everyone
• Platform: Nintendo Wii
• Dimensions: 2.03 pounds

Customer Reviews

Addictive
My daughter has this game on her DS but I decided to buy it for the Wii (due to the screen being too small on the DS for me to play too!)
It is a brilliant game. Infact, I play it more than my daughter (much to her annoyance!)
If I had realised before hand, I wouldn't have bought it with the Wii Speak as I don't intend using it 'connected' (hindsight is a wonderful thing!)
A truly brilliant game.

A nice addition to the crossing series, but its a shade dissapointing from what was initially promised.
Animal crossing is a quirky series that started all the way on the N64 as Animal forest, basically its kind of like the sims but with animal characters instead of people and believe it or not this formula actually works quite well. Basically you control a character which you can name, and move into a town which you also can name. You manage how your town operates, try and earn money to pay off your mortgage and try and find rare items for your house.

One of the new features is that you can now take your character into the city, where you can take part in auctions to buy items, watch shows in the theatre amongst other things and as a whole the game is quite relaxing. Although its a little dissapointing as the game is hampered by the wiis limitations and setup as a console.

For instance if you wanna play with friends, you can with up to four people but in order to do so you need to register those rediculous friend codes which is tedious affair compared to the xbox live approach where u just press a button then your done.

The wii speak microphone is a nice idea but its arkward getting the thing stuck on the tv, especially if its a flatscreen where i had to improvise with stick tack to keep it in place. Nintendo i would have prefered a headset to talk to friends, the sound quality is ok but it aint exactly a replacement for Skype on the pc. For the money i would just get the game on its own and the mincrophone seperately when more games are compatible.

Heres a summary of Pros and Cons:

Pros: *A relaxing experience that has the potential to last years.
*The city feature is a nice touch that adds incentive to play.
*The rotating globe prespective is improvement of GC version.

Cons: *Friend Codes are a nightmare to play with each other.
*Wii speak device is seldom supported at the moment.
*This version doesnt take the series anywhere new from previous versions.

So personally if you never played a version before, id give it a shot. Otherwise you may wanna give this version a miss as it dont take the series to new heights as promised at E3. Thanks for reading.

Brilliant family fun:-)
I find as a mum that this game is fun for all the family, I mean even I can play it !! The game has encouraged healthy competition along with the idea of sharing:-)

However the game also encourages my kids to think about the environment, helping people out, saving and the ideas around finances and family life.

Would very much recommend this game to children and adults alike!!

Animal Crossing: Let's Go To The City with Wii Speak (Wii)