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Animal Crossing: City Folk

Animal Crossing: City Folk

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From: Nintendo
Category: Video Games

List Price: $49.99
Buy New: $46.65
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New (19) Used (2) from $44.99

Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars 6 reviews
Sales Rank: 22

Platform: Nintendo Wii
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  (New: This Week)
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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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.

Accessories:

  • Official Wii Speak Microphone

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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.

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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 Pave 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:   Read 1 more reviews...

5 out of 5 stars Another great AC.   November 19, 2008
 0 out of 2 found this review helpful

I LOVE AC. This game is great and going into the city is fun. You will like this game it has more stuff in it and graphics are a lot better.


4 out of 5 stars Nintendo Could've Done Better   November 19, 2008
 4 out of 4 found this review helpful

Being a huge fan (HUGE FAN) of the Animal Crossing series, you probably couldn't even imagine how excited I was for CityFolk to come out. I even pre-ordered it. I got my game today from Amazon, I'm not here to complain about the price (which I could've made a good argument for) but the quality of the game. I noticed from the start it combined Wild World and the original one on Gamecube (I know there's one on N64) They had all the old job chores that they did in the Gamecube, and Rover's reappeared and is on the bus everytime you take to the city (which can get frequently annoying). But there are some pros aside from the cons, they made fishing addictive for me by taking full use of the Wii-mote instead of pressing a button you can just shake it (which I love and bought a fishing rode first day for), also the City (I haven't been to all the stores yet) but I like how they have Katrina the Fortunant Teller there and Crazy Redd's so you don't have to wonder "When's the next time Crazy Redd's coming to town...?" Or something like that. But another con I noticed is there is a small time to wait, which was never like that in the other two games which I was fairly disapointed in.

Bottom line is, for fans like me you'll find nothing much has changed, yet you'll be pleased with it if you like Animal Crossing (because hey it's Animal Crossing)for new players, you're in for a awesome experiance.



2 out of 5 stars How many times can Nintendo release the same game?!?   November 17, 2008
 12 out of 16 found this review helpful

I love the AC series, and I owned the other 2 games. I anticipated this one since the Wii was released; have been very excited to see what new things are in store. There really aren't any, so far. The game is fun, and if you do not own the DS one and like the premise, it is probably a safe buy. If you have played Wild World, however, do not waste your money. The city that you can travel to is the main addition - it basically consists of things that were in the last game like the hairdresser, fashion shop, etc. The game has the same main characters including the turtle mayor, Nook, the bird at Town Hall. They seem to say the same things and the tasks are the same as the other games - you have to plant flowers/trees for Nook before you can shop there, shake trees for fruit, dig for fossils, make deliveries, etc. I haven't played long, but all of the items and fossils I have found so far have been in the other games. There is nothing I can see that is truly novel here. The first AC for Gamecube had the NES games you could find and play - this was a big drawing point for the game but I doubt they're here since they are sold on the Wii Shop now. I cannot believe I payed $50 for this. I have been a big Nintendo fan since the early NES days; Nintendo has finally p@#sed me off and I do not think I will ever buy another Nintendo product again.


3 out of 5 stars More of the same   November 17, 2008
 7 out of 8 found this review helpful

While the Animal Crossing series is amazing for it's relaxing gameplay and customization options, it also seems mired in the been there-done that category.

Nintendo seems reluctant to really shake the series up or add anything noticably new or exciting. They just add new ways to do old things. While there are a few new design patterns and animal neighbor characters in City Folk, there's just as many that have vanished for no apparent reason. The New Mii makeover is the best part about the new game easily, the Mii heads even have animations and work with the emotions you learn. Sadly, they can't wear any headgear or accessories.

The bottom line is City Folk is definitely the best of the Animal Crossing games out there but only barely and there's just not enough new additions to bring back previous players unless you're a relatively die-hard fan.




5 out of 5 stars First impressions---Is this a NEW game? And is that good or bad?   November 17, 2008
 25 out of 27 found this review helpful

Anyone who knows Animal Crossing knows it's hard to really rate the game until you have played for a year or so, but I thought some people might like to hear some first impressions from a huge AC fan of the latest game!

My BIG first impression---very little seems to have changed. This game seems like a real cross between the Gamecube version and the DS version, both of which used up many hours of my time! The setup of the city is a LOT like the Gamecube version. The town have the same feel,with lots of slopes and rivers and the same somewhat tiring to get around town plan. Tom Nook, the Able sisters, Pelly, all are there in stores that look about the same. Blathers is even MORE long winded, and it's just as long a routine to get a fossil identified. It sounds like I'm complaining, but I'm not really, it's the AC I know and love. You have to go through the same internship with Tom Nook,and do even the exact same tasks you always have,and the first payment on the house is even just the same amount!

You DO get to pick your house, though,from four around town. You don't share a house, and they aren't all in a square. I picked a house on the beach, for easy fishing.

I bought a shovel and a fishing rod. Shoveling up things is the same,fishing seems initially a little easier---and yes,my first fish was indeed a Sea Bass!

The animals I visited all had furniture I recognized---modern black and white, cabin themes,etc. The animals were also about half ones I've had before, including Ruby, who I think has been in every town I've virtually lived in!

A few things I did notice---the sound was noticably better. One resident, Reuben, had a scary sort of voice, and it was really echoey and cool. The tops for sale at Able's and the designs on display were impressive---they looked a lot more detailed than previously.

I know at some point I will be able to take a bus to the city---I haven't yet---and I know as I go along I will find a lot more changes (I hope) but for now, I feel like I'm returning to a town I know well. I love Animal Crossing, and I will be happy even if there doesn't turn out to be much new. If you love AC too, buy this. If you have never tried AC, you are in for a treat---BUY IT! If you didn't like the first 2 versions but thought this one might be different---well....maybe wait and see!


 

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