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Animal Crossing: City Folk

Animal Crossing: City Folk

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List Price: $49.99
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Seller: sshayler
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars 145 reviews
Sales Rank: 267

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

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 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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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.

'Animal Crossing: City Folk' game logo
Build your own community
Fishing with friends in 'Animal Crossing: City Folk'
Enjoy mini-games against friends.
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Meeting a neighbor in 'Animal Crossing: City Folk'
Get to know your neighbors.
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Night time fun under the stars in 'Animal Crossing: City Folk'
Play at all hours of the day.
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Having friends over to your house in 'Animal Crossing: City Folk'
Feel free to have company over.
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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.




Customer Reviews:
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3 out of 5 stars City is fun, but otherwise not really anything new here   November 11, 2009
ChibiNeko (Whereever I go, here I am.)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful

Let me just say, I've loved everything Animal Crossing has put out in the franchise. If I have the system, I purchase the game within a few days or weeks of it's release. Sure the fundamentals of the game are the same, but generally there's enough new additions to the game to make the new purchases all worthwhile.

With that in mind, I was eager to pick up City Folk. I'd loved the stuff that had come out on the GameCube & the DS, so I figured that I'd fall just as much in love with the Wii version. Well... after playing it off & on, I came to one conclusion: while the game was interesting, it was just much more fun to play this on the DS & GameCube. Granted, this version has a few new tricks such as being able to go to the city & a few new characters to meet. But there were just a few things that I thought got in the way of gameplay.

It was strange getting used to playing with the new remote of the Wii. It made it a lot harder to position my character to move things about in the house or pick up or use my tools. After a while practice made it easier, but it was still a pain to get used to. The same thing goes for writing letters- letter writing is sort of a dull task to do now.

The worst thing I've come in contact with so far though, is that the grass gets worn down depending on how frequently your character walks across it. If you were to run across the grass, it'll wear it down even faster. Since there's no quick & easy way to get the grass BACK, this makes for a huge pain- especially since there's stuff in the game that's grass dependent. I can understand that this is to make the game more realistic, but it's just something that is pretty much a pain in the tuckus. You can supposedly plant lots of flowers that will help the grass come back, but come on... not all players want to spend hours maintaining their towns- they want to PLAY! (My house is a great example of that- my mom & sister don't mind spending time maintaining everything, but my niece & I just want to get out there & play around.)

Overall, this is something I'd recommend for most AC fans. For the newbies, this game will be illuminating- they'll more than likely love it. For the AC fans though, we won't find much new stuff here. It'll be mostly for the novelties.



5 out of 5 stars 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



1 out of 5 stars 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.


2 out of 5 stars 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


4 out of 5 stars 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.


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