You may think this is a game for kids, but give it a try and you'll find out why it's so addicting.
In Animal Crossing you are living among animals in a town where you are free to live at your own leisure. There are no strict goals or storyline, you play the game at your own pace. To the avid gamer you may be thinking, then what's the point? Honestly, there really is no point to this game except to build up a great town, become friends with your fellow townspeople, and upgrade and acquire items to make your house unique.
City Folk has a vast variety of items for your home and offers enough items and item sets to allow you to customize your house and make it fit your personality. Also new in City Folk, if you are using WiiConnect24, Nintendo will send you new items to celebrate events (New Years, Fourth of July, etc.)
Another new feature in City Folk is the ability to travel to the City. You can go to the city to get a Mii Makeover, bid on and sell items at the Auction House, get your fortune told, visit Redd's shop, go to the theater, and buy high end items at Gracie Grace's fashion boutique. With that being said, Nintendo could have done more with the city to make it more interesting, however it's a nice feature to be able to leave your town for awhile.
Nintendo makes use of the Wii's online capabilities by allowing you to visit other people's towns, or have people over to your town. This is a good feature if you know other people with the game, however if you don't you can't use the feature. Nintendo once again chose to use Friend Codes which limits your ability to show off your town to other people. Don't get me wrong, it's great to go to another town but let's be honest, the City should have been used as a MMO-style meeting ground where you could go meet other players and then head to a town from there. But, this is Nintendo and they were once again way too conservative and really missed a great opportunity with the Wii's online capabilities.
Animal Crossing: City Folk brings back all of the great features from previous games and adds a few new wrinkles that make it a very good game. With a few more additions Nintendo could really have made this game a masterpiece, however it's well worth picking up if you've never experienced the world of Animal Crossing.