Start your own race and you can go batshit. As well as picking out uniform designs and colours to enhance that. But crucially, the enormous array of facial options means you can create a completely unique Ferengi, Andorian or Human. It makes sense - you're dealing with established species. You can give a Ferengi a big head, but you can't change his ears, or give him blue skin. A Vulcan has to have pointy ears, but he can also have Klingon dreads that hide them: He's not a handsome chap, but it could be worse. Default Bolian:Īnd the most messed up Bolian I could make: And most of all, you won't be able to give him hair. Attempt to go crazy and you'll be able to make something odd, but not insane. So for instance, pick a Bolian and it will offer you a generic blue seamed head. Rather than letting you go crazy-go-mad with the settings, each is carefully fixed so you can't step outside the boundaries of realistic (if you'll pardon the term being used when dealing with making alien faces). What they've done for pre-established races is very smart. Each setting is able to interact with the others without distorting it, so if you want to mess around with your head width, it isn't going to muck up the mouth size or nostril depth you so carefully picked out. The nuance available to you with the tiniest of tweaks is fantastic, and unlike so many competitors' creators, changing one value doesn't obliterate your hard work with the others. (I'd say the one exception that I've spotted is Saints Row 2.) The same is true here. Others attempt to offer the same lists of options, but almost none are able to produce the same results. If you've played City of Heroes or Champions Online you'll know quite how extraordinary Cryptic's character creators are. But of course there's also "Unknown", the option to let you mould a new alien race for the Star Trek universe. Currently there's only access to the Federation side, which means the pre-created races available are Human, Andorian, Bajoran, Bolian, Vulcan, and Ferengi. Can you guess whether it's brilliant or not? It's brilliant. So of course this means spending my entire afternoon playing with the character creator. The Star Trek Online beta has for some reason allowed us in.
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