Games in which you can build your own characters

You can be in video games whoever want you to be. Adventurer, warriors, soldiers, magicians. Black hair, pink eyes. There are no borders. And especially in modernity with ever better graphic opportunities, you allow more and more games to create a very own and individual character.

Also in the Xbox Game Pass, you will find a whole series of titles in which you can design your old ego as you want to either reflect yourself in the game, or to create an interesting person.

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1. Black desert

Genre: MMORPG | Release: 4 . March 2019 | Developer: Pearl Abyss

What is it? In the world of Black Desert, you experience the fight between the Materialistic Republic of Calpheon with the spiritual kingdom of Valencia. The gameplay is especially interesting because of the dynamic combo system. Thanks to this, the struggles play a lot of flotters than that of the usual MMORPGs with target connection.

This can be the character editor: in Character Editor Selects between nine different classes. However, they are bound to a certain type as well as gender. While male heroes can become for about warriors, only women are allowed to take the way of the valley. In the look itself you have the more freedom. You can not only form the face completely free, but even the hair and the body.

2 . The Elder Scrolls Series

Genre: RPG | Release: 9 . June 2015 | Developer: Zenimax Online

What is it? On the Xbox gets your Game Pass Morrowind, Skyrim and Elder Scrolls online. While the former is already a little elegant, Skyrim is still seeing and Elder Scrolls is still receiving updates. Freedom is very important in the series and many players are already losing themselves in the exciting side tasks that all tell their own history.

The character editor: While the character creation of Morrowind was still limited, it is much more extensive from Skyrim. You can not only create people, but also fantasies like the cat-like khajiit, orcs and night elves. In Elder Scrolls Online you also have the choice between classes such as necromancers and dragon's knights.

3 . Fallout series

Genre: RPG | Release: 14 . November 2018 | Developer: Bethesda Softworks

What is it? From Fallout 3 to Fallout 76 you get four of the role-playing games in the Game Pass. The send you in the postalapalkalypse after a nuclear war, but always in other areas of the country. The gameplay is greatly based on the Elder Scrolls series and also impresses with its numerous small stories that tell the quest series.

This can be the character editor: Not only the gameplay reminds of the modern fallout games at The Elder Scrolls, also the character editor. Mutants may not tinker you together. You can only create a human Vault resident. Particularly interesting is the special system. You distribute attribute points that really affect the player's course. The series became known for reacting NPCs to a character with very few intelligence points differently.

4 . Mass Effect Series

Genre: RPG | Release: 23 . March 2017 | Developer: Bioware

What is it? Because EA Play is part of the Xbox Game Pass, you can play all four parts of Mass Effect. In the first three, it is about saving the world from the invasion of mechanical engineering, in the fourth (Andromeda), on the other hand, you make yourself in another galaxy, explores foreign worlds and paves the way for new colonies.

The character editor: your Commander Shephard created in the first Mass Effect can take you to the third part. You fits his / her face and also sets you a specific class. Everything is possible from simple soldiers to biotic warriors. Similarly, this works in Andromeda, except that you determine the appearance of the "Scout" Ryder.

5 . The Sims 4

Genre: Simulation | Release: 17 . November 2017 | Developer: Maxis

What is it? The SIMS 4 is a life simulation in which you create so many lively dolls as it is popular. After that you can watch those in your daily drive, but also affect it with various commands and decisions. They concern not only the everyday life of the Sims, but also larger life decisions like career choice.

This can be the character editor: The editor gives you all sorts of freedom. Beginned by the body to the face you can customize the Sims according to your ideas down to the smallest detail. With the hair you can choose from numerous different prefabricated hairstyles. And even with the clothes you can let off steam. The different body shapes, gears, vocal and clothing are not bound to a gender.

6 . GTA online

Genre: Action | Release: 1 . October 2013 | Developer: Rockstar North

What is it? GTA 5 and its online mode GTA online let you hatch in the skin of a big city gangster. Here you turn for all sorts of clients Krumme Dinger with the aim of making the big money! You can then spend this not only for equipment like new weapons, but also vehicles and real estate.

This can be the character editor: While you get three specified characters in single player mode, you create your very own gangster in GTA online. For this you determine the appearance of the parents, whereupon the game generates your character. Then you adapt individual values ​​such as strength and Co., which also affect the appearance. In the game itself you can then make further adjustments and buy something other clothes.

7 . Pillars of Eternity

Genre: CRPG | Release: 29 . August 2017 | Developer: Obisdian Entertainment

What is it? Pillars of Eternity is a role-playing game of the very old school. In the world of EORA, it takes over the role of a so-called "watcher". Its special ability is that you can see past lives and interact with souls. This makes it ideal for a problem in the nation of Drywood to go for the bottom of the ground. Because their children come to the world without a soul.

This can be the character editor: The creation of your character runs in a total of seven steps. First of all, you decide you for a biological gender. You choose your kind and specialization and one of a total of 11 classes. After that, attributes, culture, background and finally the look follow. The latter, however, is generated to large parts on the basis of your previous decisions. However, you can make some smaller modifications.

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