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E308: WiiSpeak with Mario
Nintendo's WiiSpeak demo was one of the freakiest things that happened during E3. Basically, Nintendo had an Animal Crossing demo running in their conference room, with a WiiSpeak mic connected. In an undisclosed location somewhere else in the convention center, Charles Martinet was also playing City Folk, with a Mario-style avatar, and riffing in the Mario voice with whoever happened to wander by.Mostly, this entailed yelling at other players for messing with his flowers, and complaining about the lack of bugs nearby. I tried to interact with Mr. Martinet, but the WiiSpeak couldn't pick up my normal speaking voice (which is admittedly mousy and whisper-quiet). As I was walking away, Mario started smacking the other players with his axe.%Gallery-27704%
First City Life screens are erected
The DS's feature-set seems ideal for a city-building sim, yet we're still waiting for a truly shining example of the genre to emerge on the handheld, a game that can suck up afternoons, Advance Wars stylee.PC-to-DS build-'em-up City Life will be looking to fill that gap when it releases later this year, and comes with 150 different types of building, a hefty Campaign mode, and six distinct social groups that -- typical! -- you have to keep happy. No news just yet on whether it will let us build cities from Nintendo consoles, but consider our fingers and toes crossed.Hit the gallery below for the first seven screens.%Gallery-15745%
