Putting On Your Game Face

Posted by simoniker on Monday October 6, 2003 @08:42AM from the but-it's-hideous dept.

Thanks to GameSpot for their editorial discussing the ability to alter in-game characters to look like yourself in videogames, specifically citing EA's Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2004. The author admits to having "a definite penchant for games that allow me to play as a character resembling myself", and muses: "I've already spent an unhealthy amount of time putting myself into Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2004 - imagine how cool it would be if that same character could be transported to FIFA Soccer 2004, Madden NFL 2004, or even SSX 3." With other forthcoming titles such as Tony Hawk's Underground highlighting this type of feature, is playing as yourself a much-desired extra for everyone, or would you prefer controlling someone more... handsome?

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Yeah, but everyone always plays as Tiger Woods by wrexsoul · 2003-10-06 08:48 · Score: 3, Informative

Penny Arcade already covered this one... Or I guess you'd have to read the news post. But that's also been made fun of recently.

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trespasser and body image by simoniker · 2003-10-06 09:20 · Score: 2, Informative

In an attempt to hijack this topic with sexist piffle, I just remembered that the not-good Jurassic Park:Trespasser had a particularly amusing body-image 'angle' if you looked down while playing - see this Games First review and scroll down for the screenshot in question. Uhoh.