Animal Crossing PAL Europe

[Cyhwuhx]

JOIN THE INCREDIBLE WORLD OF ANIMAL CROSSING

The innovative gaming masterpiece known as Animal Crossing, which has already entranced thousands across Japan and USA, is finally coming to Europe on 24th September 2004. 

Since its launch in Japan and the USA, Animal Crossing has received worldwide acclaim.  Cube IGN hailed it as ‘completely addictive’ and in May 2003 it was voted by Edge Magazine as the Gameplay Innovation of the Year, as well as being described as “a fantastically relaxing way of gaming....you absolutely can't wait for tomorrow."

Animal Crossing is an animal populated town where you live your everyday life in real-time. As part of the thriving village community you can make friends with residents, fish in the sea and decorate your homes. Using the internal clock of the Nintendo GameCube, all events in the game happen at the same time as the real world. So as dawn breaks across Europe, the sun also begins to shine in Animal Crossing and when the stars come out, it’s bedtime for all your virtual friends!

Pick your character and give him/her a name, choose a house to call your home and meet and greet the local animals that live in the neighbourhood. You can earn a living by running errands for your neighbours or finding valuable treasures. You can also discover rare items by visiting vendors or trading with your forest friends. There is never a dull moment in Animal Crossing!

You don’t have to keep the world of Animal Crossing to yourself - up to four of you can enjoy Animal Crossing together, each player takes their turn in the game and can change events for the next player to experience! You can even leave messages for your friends on public message boards and using a special password system, send your friends presents!

The wonderful world of Animal Crossing is one to be shared, and by borrowing a friend’s memory card with an Animal Crossing saved game, players can travel to their friend’s town and explore it. If you need a break from it all, you can take a holiday to Animal Island by linking Animal Crossing to your Game Boy Advance with a Nintendo GameCube Game Boy Advance Cable.

Each day is packed full of unique events and challenges which make Animal Crossing one of the most innovative Nintendo GameCube titles to date. Join the growing population of players who live to play and play for fun in a land of dreams and wonder in Animal Crossing.

Animal Crossing will be available in Europe from 24th September for 60 Euros. Click on www.nintendo-europe.com for all the latest Nintendo information.

.::: At least we're getting it!

[Lazychu]

Better late than never or too little, too late?

If they've added new stuff to it, I'll buy it no doubt. Saves pissing about with Freeloader anyway.

[Pochacco]

It's been out in Australia (PAL) for ages.

CD-WOW do em.

[No Control]

.::: At least we're getting it!

Too late, I'll wait for the DS version.

[CouldBeWorse]

24th of September!!!

[Rev]

I was a relatively late adopter - and I've owned it for more than a year now.

Heck my girlfriends, sisters house even has it. They're hardly hardcore importers are they?

It's too little, too late as far as I'm concerned.

<--EDITTED TO REMOVE OVER THE TOP RANTING-->

[Cyhwuhx]

.::: Now I don't want it to bomb. I want it to succeed. I would, however, like some compensation for all the waiting in this version. More items, games, stuff, etc?

[taiAtari]

Or localised events. Although this would be hard to implement for all of Europe. Would love to see my whole town dressed in Orange and everybody selling their crap on Queens Day though (they can leave out the rivers of puke).

[Rev]

.::: Now I don't want it to bomb. I want it to succeed. I would, however, like some compensation for all the waiting in this version. More items, games, stuff, etc?

Editted the above to be less ranting.

I agree in theory - but if Nintendo think it's worth doing, why not start work two years ago. They really are the biggest idiots this side of jupiter sometimes.

Perhaps it's only to build interest in the DS version over here?

[bigfoot]

I hope they release it at a budget price and from the recent servey (sic) that I have completed, they might use the AMerican advert for this very soil. I hope they would NOT do that, NO AMERICAN Adverts works across the ponds. It would alienate ALL the potential customers.

NOE, please don't FUCK up!

[decider]

NOE, please don't FUCK up!

Oops. Too late.

[Cyhwuhx]

Or localised events. Although this would be hard to implement for all of Europe. Would love to see my whole town dressed in Orange and everybody selling their crap on Queens Day though (they can leave out the rivers of puke).

.::: *mails Bianca about translation*

[EDIT - for dutchies]

Dit is helaas nog niet bekend. Maar ik denk dat de kans heel klein is.

Da's shit. Erg shit. Weg kans op Fabeltjeskrant licentie, en Koninginnedag natuurlijk. Ach we hebben kerst nog... :/

[Jack]

Full price? Fuck off. Though I suppose it was expensive to translate, I still wonder...

[squirtle]

24th September will be exactly 2 years to the day that I got mine.

[GinzaUK]

Full price? Fuck off. Though I suppose it was expensive to translate, I still wonder...

The US version has been out a lifetime and its about £20 i think. You better import it mate.

Im pretty sure they will charge double that price over here in September but then again you could have it like within a week for half the price from tronix or therage etc.

[decider]

The US version has been out a lifetime and its about £20 i think. You better import it mate..

He can get it from the Next Level. They have a preowned import copy for only £40.

[Jack]

The US version has been out a lifetime and its about £20 i think. You better import it mate.

Im pretty sure they will charge double that price over here in September but then again you could have it like within a week for half the price from tronix or therage etc.

I've had it for a year mate.

[Alex W.]

You know what? When it's released, I'm going to get a Freeloader and the US version.

Just because this is the most embarrasing U-turn I've seen outside of politics.

[DarthSquirrel]

Just because this is the most embarrasing U-turn I've seen outside of politics.

You mean like:

"Nintendo gamers don't want online connectivity"...

"Here's our new DS with Wi-fi capabilities"

AND

"Nintendo gamers don't want to see Link growing up so we scrapped our beautiful looking Zelda game and did a funky cell shaded one" ...

"Here's that beautiful, realistic looking 'cube zelda game that you all wanted! We are Nintendo, we deliver!!"

[Alex W.]

Well, maybe not the most embarrasing U-turn.

[c-cat114]

ah now on the zelda side of things I feel sorry for the big N. everyone moans like mad about the celshading, so the do a realistic looking one so everyone moans like mad that they`ve done a realistic one... Message learnt: focus testing sucks.

As for Animal Crossing yeah it`s too little too late, unless a: they bring it out at a good price (£20ish) or with something that would make the European market feel a little better about it. Me I don`t have the game yet. I want it, and would buy it from cd-wow, but I know I don`t have the time to play the game properly anytime before August so theres no point. After then I`ll be gettin it and if the UK launch looked worthwhile then thats where I`d go.

Little worried that they`ll see bad sales figures and assume that means game apathy rather than import frenzy tho`.

[taiAtari]

.::: *mails Bianca about translation*

[EDIT - for dutchies]

Da's shit. Erg shit. Weg kans op Fabeltjeskrant licentie, en Koninginnedag natuurlijk. Ach we hebben kerst nog... :/

Nu doe je me alleen maar nog meer pijn door te wijzen op het ontbreken van de Sint

En AC is inderdaad gewoon de fabeltjeskrant, kijk alleen maar naar de bomen. Bah, ik ga even naar het Enge Bos om uit te huilen...

[McNeillR]

My card had the town deleted, soif this has some improvements, I'll be getting it again. Plus I missed out on the first few months of the US release hype were people were trading and such, would be nice to get into that again.

[Mr Spew]

This is embarrasing. Oh dear Nintendo. You really know how to make people think you're totally stupid and ignorant.

Why not just bring it out soon, for £19.99, and no fanfare? Surely starting the translation ages ago and bringing it out without drawing to that fact that they have been useless in releasing games here (read: AC and Mario Golf) is only going to bring them bad rep?

Hmm!

[Popo]

Oi! Nintendo!

Sorry, I just wanted to post a Delorean too.

[emjay2kay]

Nintendo, with this release of a two year old game, you are really spoilling us!

Meh, I suppose they can hope it catches on with all those who've not heard of it before, and it becomes some sort of, mini-pokemon-esque craze.

[DC Lemon]

If they just put a proper Xmas Day in the European version it will have been worth the wait.

[TheSlugFormerlyKnownAsNap]

I still don't understand why they bother to release it after all this time if it's just the same game. Why not earlier? Why not not at all?

The good news is, that we can play PAL Animal Crossing while we wait for the Nintendo DS, which will be released 3+ months later in Europe!

Although I think I'll sooner be playing Animal Crossing DS on my imported DS...

[bigfoot]

I think the whole point of releasing Animal Crossing in Europe is to hype up the NDS version of animal crossing, give the general public a taste of things to come.

I hope NOE is kicking themselves for not releasing AC sooner.

[Guest]

Goosen. HE LIES!

aka "Oh help every publisher in the world* is abandoning the GC, we'd better release something for it..."

*ish