Animal Crossing: City Folk

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Animal Crossing: City Folk
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Developer(s)	Nintendo EAD
Publisher(s)	Nintendo
Platform(s)	Wii
Genre(s)	Social simulation

Animal Crossing: City Folk is a video game in development for the Wii console. It is part of the Animal Crossing series. The title was announced as a Wii game that markets the WiiConnect24 feature of the console. The game was officially announced at E3 2008 on July 15 at the Nintendo press conference, where it was revealed that it will be released in North America in 2008. Nintendo later announced their goal for the release date of November 16, 2008.

Gameplay

In a 2006 interview, Katsuya Eguchi – leader of Animal Crossing's production development – stated, "someone could send a letter from their cellphone or from an email address on a PC to the Wii, and then the player living in the town in Animal Crossing could receive that letter." In another interview with IGN, Katsuya Eguchi also discussed how his team continues exploring potential ways to take advantage of the WiiConnect24 feature such as allowing friends to visit other towns or leave messages while the machine is in standby mode.

While including the same objectives from previous games by having players live in and expand their own, unique towns, City Folk includes a city area accessible by bus. It contains many locations related to former timed events and characters. It was revealed that the game includes a salon where the player will be able to get a mask modeled after a chosen Mii character. Returning to the series are real-world holidays such as Bunny Day (Easter) and Halloween, which were absent from Animal Crossing: Wild World.

The game will take advantage of WiiSpeak, a new microphone option for Wii that allows several people in the same vicinity to talk into it, as well as being used for live voice chat.