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| Animal Crossing: Wild World (Nintendo DS) | 
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| From: Nintendo
Category: Video Games
List Price: £29.99
Buy New: £18.97
You Save: £11.02 (37%)
New (10) from £18.97
Avg. Customer Rating:  223 reviews
Sales Rank: 166
Platform: Nintendo Ds
Rating: Universal, particularly children
ESRB: Everyone
Media: Video Game
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Number Of Items: 1
Batteries Included: No
Age: 3 - 18 years
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 5.4 x 4.9 x 0.8
MPN: 100730
Model: 73592
UPC: 045496735920
EAN: 0045496735920
ASIN: B0009Z3MQK
Release Date: March 31, 2006
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1 to 2 months
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Amazon.co.uk Review:
In a nutshell:
Start a new life on your DS with the most unlikely source of online addiction you’ve ever experienced. You’ve complete freedom to customise your home and the town around it as you socialise with the locals and your friends alike. The lowdown:
The world of Animal Crossing seems a peculiarly simple one at first: there are no levels to be beaten or bad guys to overcome, just a cheerful little village to maintain, as you water flowers, catch fish and dig for fossils. But before you know it the game has its hooks in you, as you meet friends via the Wi-Fi Network Connection to chat and compete or start playing the turnip stock market. With over 600 different pieces of furniture to collect the game has a near infinite lifetime and by running in real-time with special events all through the year you’ll find yourself checking in daily with what’s going on around town. Most exciting moment:
Winning a fishing competition against three friends and rubbing their noses in it via the online chat. Since you ask:
The first Animal Crossing game was actually released on the N64 in Japan – the GameCube version was a slightly enhanced version of this. The bottom line:
Live the life idyllic on your DS with the best use of the Wi-Fi Network Connection yet.
HARRISON DENT
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| Customer Reviews: Read 218 more reviews...
 Brilliant game November 14, 2008
Animal crossing is a brilliant game if you are under 10. Let's begin from the start. You find yourself in a taxi being asked all these questions by the driver. Then he drops you of in front of the town hall and hands you over to Pelly the ever helpful duck. Pop round to your house and do the jobs for Tom Nook the shop keeper super fast. Then the real fun begins. You can pick up shells, shake trees, chat to the other residents, send letters and if you buy the right equipment, fish, dig up holes and catch bugs. sell things to Tom Nook or give them to Blathers at the museum. You can buy furniture from Tom Nook and if you get really good pay off your mortgage and get a bigger house. Compete in Fishing tourney(biggest fish) and bug offs (biggest bug). When you get bored(and that won't be for a year or something) simply delete your town and start all over again. There aren't any minigames so if you are after them don't bother. as I said at the beginning if you are over 10 go for Sims 2 Castaway instead, just ignore the 12+.
 BORING! November 9, 2008
My friend recommended this to me as she got incredibly addicted to it and kept raving about it so I bought it to give it a go. The first hour was OK but after that this game is SO SO SO BORING! I can't even stress how BORING it really is! I think it's the lack of things to do that really makes this game so dreary or the repetitive conversation from the few characters involved but this put me to sleep. Try it if you like games like Nintendogs where you really don't do much but other than that STAY AWAY! It's NOT fun!
fantastic game November 9, 2008
Animal Crossing is a great game and there is someone called Tom Nook who you buy stuff from and you can even play online with your friends ask them for their friend code then go to the gate and go to the guard on the right hand side and talk to him. To move to another town write in there friend code and wait to your friend to write in your friend code then you can go to their town, but one thing you need is the Wi Fi internet connection to go into your friends towns or other peoples.
Great game you should buy it.
 I love this game October 31, 2008
Animal crossing is really fun!
I have had it 3 years but i still love it!
Meeting other characters, good, mean or sporty is really nice but
sad when they go! Building neverending extensions to your house
is really fun and difficult in a good way.
I love this game from it's connecting to it's dressing up and i think
anybody would to.
No problems with the game at all
and at eleven i still love it.
(it is not a just a girls game there is fishing, bug catching and my
brothers love it.)
A definate buy
 Boring world full of nasty characters, NEEDS wi-fi. October 29, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I bought this on the strength of the good reviews here, and I loved MySims so I was hoping for something like that. I think you really need wi-fi to get anything from this game, and as I don't, I felt really let down.
You start off in debt, and have to work that off. Once you've done that, Tom Nook forces you to take out an even bigger loan. I think this sets a really bad example- what's wrong with saving up to buy the bigger house?
My next problem was that the characters in the town were just plain nasty. Only two ever had nice things to say, the rest just criticised me, demanded I bring them stuff, whined on about how they hoped someone (ie me) would bring them something completely unobtainable. These weren't even missions I could take on, there was no way of getting half the things they wanted. If you fail to meet an appointment set up by one of the townspeople, they come and shout at you, telling you to shut up and that they're too angry to talk to you.
This is why I think wi-fi is necessary- at least then you can visit your friends' towns and talk to someone who isn't programmed to abuse you. Also, your own town is so small and has so little in it, I think you need to get into other towns if you are to stand any chance of making decent money or collecting any of the fossils and insects etc.
The most fun I had was after a couple of weeks when I decided I'd had enough of the townspeople and their endless criticisms, and started sending rude letters to them, and making their catchphrases rude words when they demanded I change them. Childish and puerile, I know, but quite satisfying in response to the abuse they were dishing out to me.
The graphics are really nothing special, and the control system is clunky. There's a glitch that means you sometimes have to restart the game- whereupon a mole pops up and gives you an earful for not saving properly.
I play games for relaxation and escapism, and Animal Crossing:Wild World is not somewhere I want to escape to any more.
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