Hellgate: London Character Creation Overview

[GameBanshee News]

IAHGames' official Hellgate Resistance website has been updated with an overview of the different options available to players during character creation.

Gender: Male or Female. The only bonus for creating a female avatar is more whispers and group invites.

Face: The included faces represent a variety of ethnic groups to give a distinct look.

Hair Style: From the standard Caesar cut to a flamboyant Mohawk, your avatar can take on a variety of cuts until that big metal helm comes down and crushes it flat.

Facial Hair (Male) / Accessories (Female): Controls beards for male characters and facial piercing for females.

Skin Color: Selectable from a color palate that runs from deathly white to pitch black.

Hair Color: Also selectable from a color palate, includes the standard brown, blonde, black and red, with a few crazy colors like turquoise.

Height: Slider adjusts your character's height.

Bulk: Slider adjusts your character's bulk. Bulk is added as muscle, not fat. There are no flabby soldiers in The Resistance!

[DesR85]

Gender: Male or Female. The only bonus for creating a female avatar is more whispers and group invites.

Group invites into what? A faction? Guild?

[BuckGB]

They're being humorous. Female avatars in any online game always receive more /tells and /invites, presumably because the player sending the message is hoping the avatar reflects the player's real life gender. Fire up both a male and female avatar in a typical MMORPG for an hour or two each and you'll see what I mean.

[DesR85]

Originally Posted by BuckGB

They're being humorous. Female avatars in any online game always receive more /tells and /invites, presumably because the player sending the message is hoping the avatar reflects the player's real life gender. Fire up both a male and female avatar in a typical MMORPG for an hour or two each and you'll see what I mean.

Oh, I thought the author was referring to the single player aspect of the game. Anyway, I never tried playing as a female character in an MMO before so I can't say much about that (I used to play MMOs a few years ago but now I lost interest).