Animal Crossing: City Folk | 
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Platform: Nintendo Wii Genre: artificial_life_simulation_games ESRB: Everyone Media: Video Game Edition: Standard Autographed: No Memorabilia: No Number Of Items: 1 Batteries Included: No Age: 5 - 20 years Operating System: Nintendo Wii Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4 Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: RVL P RUUE Model: 045496901363 UPC: 045496901363 EAN: 0045496901363 ASIN: B001CM0PR8
Publication Date: November 2008 Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| • | 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 when used with 'Wii Speak' microphone (Microphone 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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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. View larger. |  Get to know your neighbors. View larger. |  Play at all hours of the day. View larger. |  Feel free to have company over. View larger. | 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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low adventure, but fun November 5, 2009 LarLar (Virginia) very relaxed game
do things at your own pace
real time is cool
the random events constantly draw you back
good for people who aren't so talented at traditional video games
Not sure why people like this. November 4, 2009 Supraman 0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Got this game brand new played it and thought it was rather boring. Not really sure why people enjoy playing this game. The space within this game seem to be very limited. Not only that but it is a single player game. Moreover this game does not have any story line.
Did not keep my 4 1/2 year olds attention at all November 2, 2009 Alan E Archbold 0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I bought this after reading so many reviews and wish I had rented first. It was a waste of $50 for us. My four year old loves the Cars game and the Party games but this one just bored him. My husband and I kept trying to help him open different places and he was just bored. "The game doesn't DO anything, Mom". I have to agree. It's just kind of there. If your kids like very slow moving, there kind of things by all means buy this game. If they like Cars and fun action, don't waste your money
Lots of fun playing AC City folk for Wii October 28, 2009 Edgar Ardon Herra (Costa Rica) Prior to playing this game, I read a lot of reviews about AC City Folk and all of them said it was a great game, but that if you had played an Animal Crossing game before, such as the one on the DS and Game Cube, this Wii release would not surprise you.
I had never played this game before so I immediately fell in love with it. I strongly suggest playing on line as you can learn tips and tricks from other online players, as well as getting more from the game.
I totally recommend it if this is your first time with the Animal Crossing franchise.
Mom and Dad fight kids over game October 26, 2009 Patricia Tice (Orlando, FL) The kids enjoy decorating their own homes and shopping around. The younger one hasn't gotten the idea that she needs to earn money to buy things, but she still enjoys it anyway and we all pitch in and buy her things she would like. The older one is terribly competitive and tries to win every weekend contest.
Mom and Dad love it too. Fishing is serene. Bug catching is fun and frustrating. Holidays and seasons all change before your eyes.
The game teaches the value of work in concrete ways as well as mortgages, debit cards, investing (and watching your investments), spending no more than what you have, and working with and for others. Kids get to express themselves in any way they want but there is no sexual innuendo or crudity. The behavior of the other characters is not always innocent, but you get to see consequences fairly quickly. You even get to see the results of philanthropy. In addition, they have also learned to recognize bugs, fish and dinosaur skeletons that I could have never taught them otherwise.
We have not opened up the wireless functionality of the program but it seems fairly well safeguarded with open and closed areas.
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