SR3 and customizations

Those who have Saints Row Double Pack (xbox) ordered on steam (or Red Faction: Armageddon preordered) might know about the Iniation Station already. Iniation Station is little extra for those, who want little something to their hands before the game itself releases. Think it as a demo, but without the "play" part. Only thing you do here is to create a character you want to play with on SR The Third, or if you wanna get creative, alien-a-like chacaters, hulks, whatever things your mind can get out.

I have preordered this game elsewhere so I didn't know about this Station but in few days ago. And because I didn't have Red Faction coming in, I had to get this character customization software via unlocking it with code (was it gamespot or other site?) which was publicly accessable.

After getting to know what you can make and what you are restricted to do (and for while I thought the Stations cloths were all this game is going to had - which isn't true I believe) I started doing my character. Like in any MMORPG nowadays, there is only female character to make for me. I don't know what is it, but it feels like I have no ideas for male character: only to make some big hulk like person and not a normal guy in any kind of ways (has to have big beard!). Face customization is pretty huge, but the body part isn't as customizable as I hoped for. One thing I raise my hands for is 'sex appeal', but there is little downside to this: I know there will be characters in co-op modes with cleavage bigger than pornstars and bigger junk than...okay let's not go there now!

One other thing what got my eyebrow to rise in clothing department: unlike in Saints Row 2 which had options for jackets and undershirts, The Third has only upper part covered, where you select jacket and shirt combinations, but not separately. Alsothere wasn't any option for socks (this particularly were noticable for me 'cause I'm big fan of thigh highs, sexy isn't sexy without them - unless you have great legs) but shoe wear was improved. Even though this is just for Iniation Station, but this is still lacking so much potential. If you have option to customize your character, do it right!

You can be in space suit or be a bear

Oh well, still the Station is optimized pretty well considering needed items missing. And after you have created something you wanna use or just something awesome you want to share with everyone, you have option to upload those creations of your's to saintsrow.com website - if you have account, creating account takes only minute or two. Before game release, you can only give thumbs up for other gamers creations and upload some more. In the future if you want, you can play saved games on the character you have "downloaded" from the site - or just used it on your gameplay.

The site has big minus from me to this upload system of theirs - if they won't "clean" it up for certain amount of characters: nudism is big word. It's nice thing, but like in these games, it gets out of hand almost instant you release these games. Teenagers (and why not part of the older audience) are too horny and want to create nude or partial nude characters, and there are a lot of these. And if you add the thumbs up system with this, all the creative creations are left to side for the mindless crap users put up.