Animal crossing City Folk

Today during their E3 press conference, Nintendo unveiled a game thats been in the works for a while now, Animal Crossing City Folk. We had heard small rumors about this title before but today we actually get some real info.

At the E3 2008 Nintendo Press Conference, Nintendo a video that talked about its series, Animal Crossing and announced the latest in the series, Animal Crossing: City Folk.

City Folk has two sections, the Town and the City. The Town seems to be the residential section of the game, whereas the city is the business.

"The Town is where you live and do the stuff you like."

The City portion of the town is the shops section of Animal crossing. Many of the normal shops that have been in the prevous games are here, as well as new stores.

Among the new features is the ability to make you character look like your Mii.

Animal crossing will also take advantage of Nintendo's newest peripheral, Wii Speak. Wii Speak is a microphone peripheral that allows players to speak to each other. It's not a head set, but rather a microphone that sits on the TV and allows multiple players to speak into it, like a teleconference microphone.

According to Reggie Fils-Aime, Animal Crossing City Folk will be out by the end of 2008


Here is the video from E3 video

Here is a seperate gameplay video

Here are some facts i noticed from the video

• City - You can leave your town and go to a city, which has various things to do. There are also many shops, including one owned by Gracie (please post each store or feature you noticed in the city to be included in this list).
• WiiSpeak - Talk with other people in your town... voice chat.
• 2008 - The game's release date is November 16, 2008. - source
• Gracie has a store in the city - called Gracie Grace.
• You take a bus to the city.
• The city has an "academy" where you can learn what other players are interested in/what they're doing.
• A return of some of the holidays like Halloween
• Auction House in city... see what items are for sale
• Happy Room Academy (HRA) has it's own building in the city... Lyle is in charge of it????
• Harriet's Beauty Salon is a building in the city.
• Masks - This is done at Harriet's as well. You can change the appearance of your face "to look like your Mii". I wonder if they can be taken off or are more like hair... where it's a change and not something you wear.
• Send letters to people in different towns (through WiFi)
• With letters, you can also attach pictures
• Well since he said that, it means you can take pictures too! This feature was actually introduced in the Japan-only updated game of AC on the GameCube.
• Send your pictures/letters to computers.
• Visit anyone in the world? He mentioned this when he was talking about Wii Speak... in ACWW you couldn't go to the towns of people in Japan for example.
• Either the Basement is back or the upstairs room is a lot bigger... they showed a big room with stairs going down... I guess it could be either one of those things.
• ACWW-like house placement. By this I mean the house isn't in one area for every town, it could be anywhere in the town, like ACWW. I can't tell if each player of the town gets their own house though. When showing the top top floor (like ACWW has), we see only one bed in the video. However, this could mean that the town being showed only has one person playing the game. Edit: It looks like there isn't anymore room for another bed! This is good news... I'd say the chances of there being a house for each player is greater than only one house.
• The cliffs in the town... like AC GCN... are back. This makes the town look nicer in my opinion.
• Watch a show at a theater in the city according to Nintendo's E3 press site.