Animal Crossing Let's Go to the City (Wii)

Gamecow’s Price	RRP $99.95     Save $10.95 $89.00
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Genre	General
Platform	Nintendo Wii
Release Date	04/12/2008
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Animal Crossing Let’s Go to the City allows you to take control of your character and watch them grow.  The beauty of this game is that events occur in real-time and it allows you to play on-line with friends and visit their villages.

If you love The Sims, you will love this game.  If you have never played The Sims, then give this a go, you will not be disappointed.  An excellent fun game.

Animal Crossing Let Go to the City (Wii) Product Information

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: Let's Go to the City, 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: Let's Go to the City 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: Let's Go to the City. There you can catch a show at the theatre or check out the sales at Gracie’s boutique. But if you don’t show your face back home for too long, your neighbours 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 Wii Speak 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 neighbours. The heart of Animal Crossing: Let's Go to the City is building relationships with the animals in your town as well as with other players. Befriend your animal neighbours by exchanging letters, gifts and favours. 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. Customise 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.

Animal Crossing Let Go to the City (Wii) Review

If you’re unfamiliar with the Animal Crossing franchise, here’s a basic run-down of the series: Your main goal is to live the best and most fulfilling life as possible. There’s no end to this game or final boss fight. Animal Crossing has and always will be a game that can technically never end. You can buy property, do chores and make friends, all in a cute world that is void of any of the major problems affecting the real world today.

Let’s Go To The City has a money system known as Bells, which are earned through performing tasks and then selling off the earned items, such as fruit grown in your garden or items you’ve come across in the world. As you first begin, most of the Bells will go directly to Nook as you pay of the mortgage for the house he so kindly sold to you. Bells can also be discovered randomly throughout the world, even by shaking trees and knocking some down onto the ground.

The monetary system definitely works well in the game, but it’s nothing new from previous Animal Crossing titles. You’ll still be earning money the same way with the same difficulty and through the same sort of people. This system is where the games inability to feel like a true sequel shines through, as veterans of the series will have to re-live the somewhat repetitive nature of buying, earning and selling.

The village in Let’s Go to the City works on real-time, with realistic changes in weather, animal patterns and chore requirements. Animals move and migrate depending on the weather and most of the action occurs during the day before the sunsets. As you progress and become more accustomed to the lifestyle, they’ll be more to do and you’ll soon feel like you’re being bombarded with chores and activities in the town. This is not a bad thing at all, as it makes the town feel genuinely alive and happening.

The online play in Let’s Go to the City is practically exactly the same as the DS version, with your friends scattered around the village doing their own thing as time goes by (after you all input each other’s 12-digit codes, of course). The only difference is that they may be playing on a different clock with different weather patterns. So while you may have a clear day that is perfect for harvesting, your friends might be stuck inside during a thunderstorm with nothing to do, even though they are clearly visible to you.

One of the incredibly cool aspects of the online play is that whatever item you pass onto villages – be it a household item or piece of clothing – they take it with them when they move to another village. So if they appear in another gamers world, they’ll be using or wearing your items. It adds a whole new level of interactivity to the game-play and in a way makes you feel obligated to pass things on to your neighbours.

Animal Crossing Let’s Go to the City will let gamers down in the visual department. Everyone knows that the Wii isn’t the most powerful console on the market, but it can do a hell of a lot better. Besides sharp and bright colours, there’s nothing that really stands out in the visual side of things.

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