[Update] Animal Crossing: City Folk – Trailer
Tuesday, July 15th, 2008 at 3:41pm by Will
Hit the jump for updated information!
Animal Crossing®: City Folk
Launch Date: Holiday 2008
ESRB: RP (Rating Pending)
Game Type: Community Simulation
Accessories: WiiSpeak microphone (sold separately)
Players: 1-4 alternating, 2-4 simultaneous via Nintendo® Wi-Fi Connection
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: City Folk, 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: 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.
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 WiiSpeak 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 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.
July 15th, 2008 at 3:55 pm
Looks pretty promising…
July 15th, 2008 at 4:12 pm
Yeah, but it also looks like EXACTLY the same game as the previous two Animal Crossing games, except the Mii compatibility (which is a wonderful idea in general, not necessarily for myself) and the weird little city thing. It’d be nice for the game to stick to its’ roots, I just hope it’s different enough to be a new game worth buying. I also hope that the connectivity is as easy as they originally made it sound, though I doubt it very much.
July 15th, 2008 at 4:15 pm
yup, it’s basically the same version with slightly better graphics and that city thingy, as mentioned above.
collecting fish, fossils, insects, basically all items all over again which can be fun but it can get tedious, right? nothing really new… but I still want to get my hands on that game. too bad I don’t own a Wii … yet.
July 15th, 2008 at 4:23 pm
DS 1.5, but who cares?!
Its animal crossing, what do you want, bloom lighting, sub-pixel scattering, rag-doll physics? This is not Gears of War people!
I will by it and play the S*#% out of it.
July 15th, 2008 at 4:23 pm
Somehow I was expecting more. I mean, the game is still fun… but that trailer didn’t show any real evolution in the gameplay. No judgement will be made until the game is released, but it would be rather disappointing if Nintendo doesn’t provide any new or different goals.
July 15th, 2008 at 4:33 pm
I think everyone here is jumping way too far ahead and making conclusions shown on just a preview.
They just showed us that it has what all the other games have had.
They never showed us what additional things it will have.
But didn’t someone mention it had voice communication as well?
There’s a big feature then if that’s true!
July 15th, 2008 at 4:53 pm
A keyboard feels nice to be using again.
I wasn’t interested in this one little bit, but now I am. Not as much as I’ve always been in Wii Music, but it’s more than I was originally in Wii Sports.
July 15th, 2008 at 5:03 pm
animal crossing will be cool with the wii speak. it would be cooler if you could have four players per console online though to make it truly you can hear everyone etc. a 16 player animal crossing online experience would have been killer, but it seems it isnt to be.
BUT AND ITS A HUGE BUT and more importantly! I think they needed to add stuff to animal crossing personally.
If you think, all these so called casual gamers on the DS who bought wild world, are they really going to shell out for somethign to to all intents and purposes looks pretty much like a clone with a microphone.
Yes, i know theres and city and stuff, but even then its just the hair shop and mailbox just moved out of your town into a different place instead. They needed new collectables as well on top of skeletons art and clothes. To be honest it looks as if they couldnt be bothered to remodel everything as it would take so long, they just upped the polygon count on the characters.
There should be more events and activities i think, a mesh with harvest moon style mechanics could have been nice, or maybe getting a job at the post office where you deliver letters and get to read them or somethign, would have been cool. I love the idea of the microphone, but i can’t see enough of a difference with the GC version yet for me to want to buy it again. Sorry guys, i just don’t
I hope that they have something up their sleeve. I dont want to go around collecting all the same stuff. Give me a job when i get there, that would be much better.
July 15th, 2008 at 5:14 pm
When he gets the Mii head, he really looked creepy. @_@
July 15th, 2008 at 5:38 pm
Need more information about the online mode. I’d like to use the game as a way to stay in touch with friends who’ve moved to other cities, so being online together simultaneously is most important to me. multiplayer games/activities would be great too.
July 15th, 2008 at 5:47 pm
It looks like the DS game with a bit of a dusting off of. Seriously? I’m supposed to buy this just to get Wii Speak apparently? I can’t even wait for a price drop, because that won’t happen. Not feeling like smiling Nintendo, not at all.
July 15th, 2008 at 5:53 pm
I wonder if you can have characters of different races…
July 15th, 2008 at 8:13 pm
I wonder how did they implement motion controls in it. It may be fun to chop trees down, go fishing… It is not the same DS game. It may be fun for some people, but I still don’t know if I am one of those people :/
Best!!
July 15th, 2008 at 8:53 pm
“Yeah, but it also looks like EXACTLY the same game as the previous two Animal Crossing games, except the Mii compatibility ”
“It may be fun for some people, but I still don’t know if I am one of those people :/”
“It looks like the DS game with a bit of a dusting off of. Seriously? I’m supposed to buy this just to get Wii Speak apparently? I can’t even wait for a price drop, because that won’t happen. Not feeling like smiling Nintendo,”
“it’s basically the same version with slightly better graphics and that city thingy, as mentioned above.
collecting fish, fossils, insects, basically all items all over again which can be fun but it can get tedious, right? nothing really new…”
“To be honest it looks as if they couldnt be bothered to remodel everything as it would take so long, they just upped the polygon count on the characters.”
“but that trailer didn’t show any real evolution in the gameplay. ”
WOW…again.
THIS was Nintendo’s BIG game of the E3 conference? Again, this is a FANboy site and look at the negative comments….
I am getting worried that my Wii will have even less activity this year. To bad, I used to be such a big Nintendo fan…
The game looks nothing more than a rehashed version of several of the other rehashed past versions. I hope it turns out different, but so far it is disappointing to be honest.
July 15th, 2008 at 10:03 pm
I just have never seen the appeal of playing a game like A.C. on a home console. I almost exclusively play Wild World when at my friends houses or on the road and I don’t see myself sitting down on the couch to play it. That’s probably just me, though.
July 17th, 2008 at 4:35 am
Wow is right..
I mean it’s Animal Crossing, so not like I was expecting a massive leap forward, but come on…
Some polished graphics, a brief moment of excitement in the hair-do machine.. and erm.. yeah..
Why wouldn’t they show all the amazing new stuff? Afraid that the Animal Crossing thieves will steal all their ideas? Come on.. more likely Nintendo know people will buy AC wether they bother to add and improve the formula or not so they go back to not bothering.
The online component may make the title have some value to those owning the GC or DS versions but I doubt Nintendo will do it right.