We’ll kick things off where most games begin, character creation. However, before I even began to think about deciding what my character would look like, the game asked me the most important question affecting gameplay, what class would I be?

In terms of the Alpha, players only had access to one subclass of each of the three major classes. Warlocks had access to the Voidwalker class and got to wield the absolutely devastating Void Bomb super move. Void Bomb is the flashiest super move (in terms of the Alpha) and has the user launching into the air and hovering as they shoot off a massive cannon ball of explosive purple energy.

Titans got the Striker class and had the chance to introduce enemies to the Fist of Havoc super move. For those who don’t know, Fist of Havoc is the explosive area of effect ground pound. The animation does a grand job of showing off the strength that one would expect from a Titan.

Lastly, the Hunters have the Gunslinger class. They wielded the most skill based super of the alpha, the Golden Gun. The Golden Gun is a “hand cannon” made of golden fiery energy which kills a good amount of things (such as other players in PvP) with one shot and lasts as long as you’re super charged.

Needless to say I had a “who could have just one” mentality and made a character for each class. Two characters in the case of the Titan and Warlock classes due to a bit of OCD, which will be mentioned later.

Once I had picked a class, that’s when the intense customization kicked in. Bungie’s character creation system wasn’t nearly as in-depth as certain games (such as Black Desert), but it had all the options I needed to make rather stunning characters.

When pulling together my Guardian I had four pages full of options to go through. First off I had to pick a race and gender for my fresh-faced warrior, the options being Human, Exo (the robots), or Awoken. The races vary in nothing more than appearance and dance skills. Meaning that you’ll never be hindered by having to decide if you want stats or the look you’re going for.

After picking a race, I was tasked with picking out my characters eye color, skin color, facial structure, lip color (or the color of the glow in the mouths of the Exo), hair style (optional “head features” for Exo), color, and last but not least, optional face markings and their colors. With all the colors and options available it’s not over reaching to say you might spend about 5-10 minutes with the character customization if you care about how you look. Even more time if you’re a little OCD about it, like me.

I found that Bungie certainly did not drag their feet with the character models either. The skin looked soft and natural, and the contours of the faces all look right. Nothing stood out as some strange anomaly or horrible mutation. Bungie’s attention to detail didn’t just stop at the faces; even the hair textures looked like they had been meticulously worked on. The curly hair looked like every strand had been put through a curling iron and vice versa for the straight hair. Even the frizzy styles looked nice.

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Myles K Farrington is a new writer on the MONG team and a rather dapper fellow. Keep up with him over at IGN, Twitch, and Twitter as well!