Animal Crossing: City Folk

Animal Crossing: City Folk (PAL: Animal Crossing: Let's Go To The City) is the third and most recent installment of the Animal Crossing series. It received a 7.5/10 rating from [IGN.com], who described it as "mash-up between the DS and GCN designs". [GameSpot.com] also gave the game a 7.5/10. Animal Crossing: City Folk was also the first Wii game to support Wii Speak. It was released in America on November 16, 2008, in Canada on November 17, 2008 in Japan on November 20, 2008, in Australia on December 4, 2008, in Europe on December 5, 2008, and in South Korea on January 28, 2010. It is the sequel to Animal Crossing: Wild World.

Gameplay
The game has no plot (except from the beginning) and is a free-roamer. Players can decorate their town, their house and even themselves. The game lures you in by changing stock of shops each day and holding regular festivals and contests. Other animals interact with the player who can build a strong friendship with the animals and even take it to the extremes of sending them a Valentine's present to show they love them.

Controls
Using the wii remote and nunchuk, you can control player. Either by using the nunchuk analog stick or pointing and clicking with the wii remote you can move the player around the virtual world. The D-Pad allows you to equip/dequip equipment like the shovel or the axe. C (on the nunchuk) or A (on the remote) will allow you to perform the main action like talking to another animal or shaking a fruit tree. Z and B on the other hand will allow to player to things such as run or kick dirt back into a hole. - and + cycle through the bottom tabs while 1 takes a picture and 2 allows you to save it to an SD Card. At the top you can have up to four emotions which you can perform when you have learned them from Dr. Shrunk at the Marquee. These can also be found on the keyboard.

Online Play
Some copies of the game came bundled with Wii Speak, a semi-circular microphone which allowed the player to talk to people they interact with online. A USB keyboard can also be used to replace the in-built point and click keyboard. Keeping with Nintendo's family friendly policy, the game supports friend codes (FC's), 12 digit codes that both users are required to input before online play can be acheived. In HRA HQ, the spotlight room can be any of your friends, your neighbours, or your room and in the auction house, you can bid on your friends items or sell items to your friends. Nintendo also makes use of the Wii's WiiConnect24 feature to release DLC (Downloadable Content, items which you can receive by connecting your Wii to the Internet. These items are region specific, consisting of America, Korea/Japan, and Europe.