TotemBall Would Have Been Better If The Vision Camera Control Was Alot Better.
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THE GOOD : Its Funny If You Play With Friends Sometimes, The Music Is Alright.
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THE BAD : The 3D Graphics Are Of PS1 Quality, Achievements Make You Keep Playing, Levels Are Basically The Same.
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TotemBall came out in 2006 as a free downloadable arcade game, because of it being free many people thought that it would be good but they were all wrong.
TotemBall is a game that I tried to like but i just couldn't like it enough because of its poor controls and bad graphics.
Gameplay : The gameplay in this is just on the verge of being half decent, all's you do is roll around on a ball made of i dunno as a Turtle thingy.
Your main goal is to collect totems which appear on the ground as shiny blocks and when you pick them up they appear as floating concrete slabs with poorly drawn and stupid faces.
As you roll around you will come across many collectable items such as little crystals and CD thingys, there soul purpose is to increse your score, you can also pick up tiny black treasure chests that increase your score multiplier. There are several modes of Gameplay which include Story and Pinball and others. Pinball is proberly more fun than the stroy mode because its Pinball.
Achievements : There are a total of 12 Achievements in TotemBall with a total of 12 Gamerscore. The Achievements are somewhat hard to earn because they make you want to play the game more and i would rather play it less. The Achievements range from "Fit Player" to "Boune On Water" Bounce On Water Is Where you have to bounce on water 100 times which is kinda easy but it does take at least half an hour out of your life when you could be playing Gears Of War, and then there is Fit Player which sees you trying to stay active for at least 20 minutes without hitting a reststop.
Graphics : The grphics are not good, they look like they where done for a PS1 or N64. The water effects are proberly the best looking thing in the game but still they are not very good. There are a few shrubs, bushes and trees in TotemBall but they don't look very good.
Sound : The Sound is proberly the best part of TotemBall, the sound effects are alright, they range from Bouncing on water all the way to Pinball sounds. The music is good, each Totem plays a different instrument and they sound realistic and add a nice effect to the game.
All In All TotemBall is an average game that could have been good if not for the extremely bad controls and poor gameplay and graphics.
TotemBall is free which is good because if i knew it was this bad and it costed Microsoft Points i would not have gotten it.