Animal Crossing 3DS may not be released this year, but its fishing game appears in the pre-installed AR Games collection. Expect to be getting up late at night to catch those rare fish.

After the initial excitment of what seemed to be a fully functional version of Animal Crossing 3DS, I was a little dissapointed to discover that this was only a tech demo showcase to depict what the game would look like on the device.
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Animal Crossing: Let's Go To The City may seem an unlikely past time for a board game family, but it slowly drew us in and wrapped us up with the minutiae of its rich island. This is something we'd not experienced in a board game.

Animal Crossing: Let's Go To The City has easily been the most eagerly anticipated game for us, since making the foray from board games to their digital counterparts. The kids seemed to "get" it straightaway (or at least were not bothered by the issue of "getting" it): in their respective half hour debut slot they each managed to achieve a lot. Iona discovered a shop selling clothes and fabrics and had already produced some designs of her own. Aurora had made a full exploration of the town including the municipal buildings.
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As a huge fan of the Animal Crossing games I could hardly contain my excitement when I got the 'Let's go to the City' game, bundled with Wii Speak. I couldn't wait to get writing about how the new game works out. I'll be blogging my way through the experience right here on this page - so you can enjoy it too.

The longer I carried on not playing, of course, the longer the catch up period! Eventually I resigned myself to giving up completely. However, the lure of summer in Oakwood became too much, and so, during my summer break, I decided to play the game again.
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Animal Crossing: Wild World is the DS version of the island life come friendship simulator that was previously acclaimed on the Gamecube.

Simulation games focus their efforts on creating an ongoing, usually organic, environment in which players can exist. The fun of playing these games is in working with the simulation model and the various happenstance events that occur because of this interaction.
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Animal Crossing has been in our family since we switched on our first DS. We played it, lived in it, discovered in it and grew in it.

It was a wonderful playground that didn't suffer whether you played for hours on end or once a month. It seemed a natural progression to move into that world on the Wii, and what we found was a familiar place in scope and character. Somewhere we could live our lives just like we had on DS - but virtually unimproved. This somewhat anticlimax soon passed when we realised that this was Animal Crossing in all its glory but now crisper and prettier, why would we want for anything more? Why re-invent the wheel?
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Animal Crossing : Wild World was the long awaited follow up to Animal Crossing Gamecube. It was released for Nintendo DS in December 2006 and was an immediate hit both with existing Animal Crossing fans and new players alike.

The game is essentially very similar to the Gamecube version in look and feel; the graphics don't even seem very different, and in fact the premise of the game is exactly the same, but there are a number of crucial gameplay changes that make this version of the game even more appealing.
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Animal Crossing for Gamecube was originally a Japanese game (Dobutsu no Mori, released in 2001) which finally made it to Europe in 2004. First impressions may well be that it is a kids' game, as the graphics are bright and cartoon-like, and it seems like a simple premise to live and work in a fantasy town, but there is far far more to the game than that.

At the start of the game, you are taken on a train to your town. At this point you name your own character and your town, and you enter into conversations with a couple of key 'cast members' in the game. As your character arrives in town he or she is whisked off by Tom Nook, the shopkeeper and landowner, and given errands to run in order to earn yourself a little house. These errands teach you the basics in the game; communication with other characters, finding goodies in various places, etc. After that you're on your own, but Tom Nook is always on hand to help you out one way or another, and there are clues to be had from the other residents in town, too.
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