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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: £24.99
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Rating:  234 reviews
Sales Rank: 77
Platform: Nintendo Ds
Genre: simulation-games
Rating: To Be Announced
ESRB: Everyone
Media: Video Game
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Number Of Items: 1
Batteries Included: No
Age: 3 - 18 years
Operating System: Nintendo DS
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 24 hours
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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
Product Description
Animal Crossing goes mobile! Venture into a virtual village, where you can decorate your house, go for a spot of fishing or just shoot the breeze with your fellow animal residents!
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| Customer Reviews: Read 10 more reviews...
 BRILLIANT! January 2, 2009
You create up to 4 characters and walk around the place trying to avoid cracks in the ground, you talk to people and go to places. What I really enjoyed was going into museums to view tombs, dinosaur fossils and animal skeletons, which were very realistic.
 Fun in small packages December 29, 2008
Helen (UK)
I am an "older gamer" being over 25 and thoroughly enjoy this game. It can get a bit boring when you have nothing else left to do in the town until the next day, but this is when you work at your fishing skills, or shake trees, or even plant them!
I like that I can sporadically turn it on and have fun with it, and then turn it off and come back to it and its moved on in time. The world keeps going even when you turn it off (so to speak). The game gets more and more interesting as you play it longer, but it doesn't change format. If you don't like the format from the beginning then you won't like it after weeks of playing either.
Personally, I enjoy Runescape and other online games so this game is entertaining for me.
I can play this for hours! December 20, 2008
L. Ainscow (At the computer, UK)
i bought this game, originally just to play on the plane journey, of which was 2hours as i heard it was better played in short bursts; but i was hooked all week!! Sadly enough i found myself going on it before i went to bed, for about an hour or so, trying to collect money to pay of for my 2nd, bigger house.
Its totally awsome! id definetly reccomend!
 Animal crossing, review. December 3, 2008
C. mayer (Stafford)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I bought this product a while since, I found the game very pratical at the start. But once i had played it a numorous amount of time's it became to repetative, there is'nt much life in the game. But younger ages e.g
7-10 Yr's would very mcuh enjoy this game, I at the age of 13 found it a game that i would play if i happened to be bored. But overall i would'nt reccomend it to above 12's, i do happen to reccomend it to people who enjoy creating thing's
Here is a few thing's that you can take part in:
*Build your own house, but at the cost of bell's; Animal crossing money.
*Do active thing's i.e fishing, catching nature.
And more etc etc.
One thing I happened to really enjoy is the fact you can invite anyone from other towns including friends who have nintendo's near by.
Thankyou for reading my review I hope you find it usefull with your purchase.
 THINK CAREFULLY BEFORE BUYING THIS FOR YOUNGER CHILDREN November 28, 2008
P. J. Whitehead
10 out of 24 found this review helpful
This is harsh but I'll explain why. 95% of the time this is the harmless sort of game it appears to be, in tune with its PEGI rating of 3+. BUT in certain circumstances (mainly if your child keeps switching off the game without saving it properly first) a fierce-looking mole appears and starts abusing the player for doing so. Abusing? Well, it repeatedly used the word "punk" in what I can only describe as a two or three minute aggressive rant. Why do they think "punk" is an acceptable way to address young children? Other terms were used as well. This may be OK for older children but my 7-year old was literally shaking afterwards, and even my 9-year old was visibly upset. The younger child had a couple of nightmares about it. To make it worse, there's no way to cut short the mole once it has started and if they turn the game off to "make him go away" he comes back even more vituperative when they next start the game. There is no warning about this mole anywhere in the manual, and no alternative but to let him run his course.
Other than this it seems OK as a game, the main problem being the amount of time they'll waste on it, and now that they've learnt (mostly) how to avoid the mole coming my children enjoy playing it. It's better pitched for older children, however (eg my children asked "what does 'dork' mean?" part way through playing it the other day - symptomatic of an expectation of older players by the designers), and I can't help wondering how many other shocks are lying in wait in the game. I therefore CANNOT recommend it for the under-10s at least.
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