Animal Crossing: A New Start?

The new Animal Crossing game is set to burst onto the Nintendo 3DS some time during 2012; but will this Animal Crossing be more than a bland remake of the Animal Crossing: Lets Go To The City for the Wii. Or will it finally start to build on the ideas and show the world that Animal Crossing for the 3DS is more?!

Animal Crossing is a series of games by Nintendo and has been around since the Nintendo 64 period. The first time it was released was onto Nintendo's N64 system; this release was only really in Japan and by the time word of this game reached the west part of the world it had transformed into Animal Crossing for the Game Cube.

(Below: Front of Animal Crossing for the Game Cube)

This was the first time we saw Animal Crossing and it was an interesting idea. Animal Crossing plunged the player into a world inhabited by walking, talking animals. The game was mostly based around paying of a morgage for the house the player picked from the four avilable and whenever the player payed off the loan they would be offered an exstention; which would lead tho yet another loan to pay off. This is pretty much the the story for the whole game until you pay it off. The game also featured a clock that you would sync with real time witch was a feature that had started to pop up in games during its release.

The game would also go though each season and even had special events; such as celebrating your birthday.

This was followed by the release of the game on the Nintendo DS where many issues were resolved. This also meant that other people could visit your town by connecting by wireless communication which was a new feature added to the DS. The two screens also meant information could be displayed better and you could look at the sky while running around.

(Below: Front of Animal Crossing: Wild World for the Nintendo DS)

While this release dealed with many of the issues in the first release and added a few new features and items it didn't really change the gameplay in anyway. The main idea was still to pay off a loan and gain a bigger house.
The third release was for the Wii and finally it sounded like something big had finally been added to the game! And at first it seemed it had.
(Below: Front of Animal Crossing: Lets Go To The City for the Nintendo Wii)

As the name impleys this game allowed the player to venture into the city where they could shop and meet diffrent charcters. This was a great concept and had some good potential to add something new to the game. This chance to make the game better was saddly missed and many feature that could e found there could origonally be found in the home town in Wild World. For example; Shampoodle, fortune telling and shady Redd's shop.

So, what is Animal Crossing for the 3DS going to be like and will their finally be some note worthy changes made? Well, the good news is the several new features have been confermed and are deffinetly going to be in the game!

Examples of these new features are: swimming, being about to change shoes and trousers, customising furniture and becoming the mayor! Yes! This is the things I was waiting for, acctually becoming the mayor!

(Below: Some screen shots from the new game showing some of the new features and items)

Plently of imformation can be found at the official Nintendo site including videos and more pictures.

And that is it for my look at the new Animal Crossing game! I'm looking forward to it dispite the number of disapointments their have been during earlier releases.