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 visit friends from all over the globe? In Animal Crossing, 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, 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 trip into the all-new city and catch a show at the theater, check out the sales at Gracie's boutique, or change up your look at the salon! But if you don't show your face for too long, your neighbors will miss you! The perfect place to hang out with friends! The heart of Animal Crossing is building relationships with other players as well as the animals in your town

Live with up to three other people from your household and build the perfect town together! 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, it's like you're all in the same room! Get to know your neighbors! Befriend your animal neighbors by exchanging letters, gifts, and favors

Animals can also move from town to town, and when they do, they bring their memories of life in your friends' 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. 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

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Play at all hours of the day

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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.