Features:

• Touch screen simplifies item management and world navigation - Tap the touch screen to type letters, draw designs for clothing or wallpaper, drag clothing or items onto characters or just lead them around the world
• Players and up to three friends can hang out in the same village and interact in real time - either through wireless LAN or over Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection
• Travel to a friend's village -- even if it's thousands of miles away
• Interact with members of the original cast of Animal Crossing - K.K. Slider, Tom Nook, Blathers, Mr. Resetti and more
• Meet all the new characters, including animals of all shapes and personality types

Editor Reviews:

Product Description:
Animal Crossing: Wild World takes you into a real-time virtual world where an entire village is waiting to be explored. Whether you want to decorate your home, catch bugs or fish, or just chat with the characters in your village, there's always something to do. Days and seasons pass in real time, and you can visit the vilages of online players -- even if they're a thousand miles away.

Rating : - Addictive Fun
This is not really a game in the technical sense. Your character does lots of silly, mindless little activities. So... why is this so much fun?! Many have asked themselves this; I don't think anybody really understands why this game is addictive.

For the new and uninitiated, this is a game worth trying. Think "The Sims," except without any structure or story. There is a challenge to pay off the mortgage on your house, all the while building the house as large as you can. You collect fish, fossils, paintings, and bugs, opting either to sell them or put them in a museum (one of my favorite features!). You also collect furnishings, wallpapers, and carpets, and decorate your house to your heart's content. The seasons change, and there are fishing tourneys, bug hunts, and special holidays. Characters appear at certain times of the year, certain times of day, and on certain days, which means there's almost always something new and fresh to see. The appearances of fish and bugs change with the seasons and time of day.

There are plenty of things to decorate yourself with. Clothes, umbrellas, hats -- the possibilities are endless!

You make "relationships" with the little animals populating your game, send them letters, and visit them on their birthdays and give them gifts. Each character has its own little personality; it's a ball to see them having conversations and being allowed to "listen in" on them!

There are cool options that take advantage of the DS's second screen, such as shooting presents (and other flying malcontents) out of the sky. Very fun!

For the first time, you can use the DS's WiFi capabilities, jump online, and visit other people's towns -- while they can visit yours. Characters jump town to town and you get to find out about all the shenanigans your friend has been carrying on via the letters his previous town's denizens are so willing to show you. You can buy letters in a bottle to throw out to sea, which randomly appear on a random friend's shore.

Perhaps my favorite addition was when I made the little animal characters like me. When they really like you, they give you their photograph. It has become a lot of fun and a great challenge to work on each character, collecting all the photos you possibly can before they move away.

Is this any different from the Gamecube version? Oh, yes. For one thing, due to the smaller cartridge, there are less options available as far as furnishings and decor is concerned. There are no longer 10 fossil spots to dig up; only 4. There are no gold spots. Most annoyingly, you can have up to four players -- but those four players must share one house. OUCH! Now, eventually, you get a four-room house, but as anyone knows: sharing the same house is not fun at all. Since you can use Wi-Fi, you might as well consider this a single-player game and leave it at that.

All in all, this is a very enjoyable and very worthwhile game.