Alright! Time to imagine the HELL out of this beta!

Woo

Oh, are we pretending the game might be available to test soon?

Sorry, still bitter.

Only four types of faces? I would think that you would want to be able to customize the face the most.

@phoenixavatar2: I agree. Four face options is a bit lacking. Maybe it is limited to four in the beta. Let's hope.

I have mixed emotions about this.

A) The beta is full of fail.
B) I can't wait.
C) Who the hell created this and how come they can get in and I cant.

Nice to see they aren't allowing stupidily high voices, nothing more annoying than being yelled at by a chipmunk.

Wow I hoper other games adopt the voice pitch thing.

Go go go!

@phoenixavatar2:

The 4 face thing is kind of hilarious because you basically have a White, Black, Asian, and Other (Spanish?, Italian? etc..) category.

@Narynan:

Maybe hold off calling the beta a failure until you get to play it. I imagine in a few weeks, all the disgruntled people will be all over MGO

GO GO GO! GO GO GO GA GO GO.
just avoided ban Monday.

Coolio. I'm a sucker for character customization so this is awesome to me.

@LittleBigPlaneteer: Thats the Beuaty of it you can pick the face mask and glasses and your soldier has no race, he just IS

@LittleBigPlaneteer: I don't know what's so hilarious about it but I can't wait for some Latinos or Middle Eastern people to call the game racist ! "We have the right to make virtual war too !"

Anyway, the customization looks pretty decent, I hope there'll be more stuff in the real game !

I find it funny there's so much bitchin about a beta having technical problems. That's why betas exist people. They're for testing the infrastructure and balancing the game, NOT for your personal enjoyment. Maybe we were all spoiled by the slick H3 beta, but all these people bitching about the beta seem to have forgotten that it is not their god-given right to play this game a few months early. It's a beta, and technical problems are to be tolerated, if not expected.

Everything seems pretty except the face selection. I mean hasn't the ability to change the structure of your face been around like forever now? I hope this is just a beta thing. I mean, I play warhawk so it's not like I care that much but still.

And once again, I'm hyped for the beta. I'm guessing there will be more options when the full game is released. Plus, you know there should be a ton of DLC.

No Octocamo though? Looks like Snake will forever have that advantage in battle...unless that's put up for DLC too...which would be delicious.

@Shteve:

It's funny in that sad kind of way. Konami has basically categorized the human race into 4 categories.

Of course, no woman either from the looks of things. Of course girls don't play games so it's a moot point!

I found myself disagreeing with almost every choice he made. Dinky little vest with huge helmet? Fashion police, apprehend that man!

I'm both happy and sad that I have at two midterms and a paper coming up within the next two days to take my mind off of MGO till Friday...

Okay, people are all over the racial archetypes...

...you don't seem to be able to create a female character.
Or did I miss something?

Everything black? Real original...

This is as far as i got when i attempted to get into MGO. Still, very cool, got me all excited! But alas, time to wait.

Their current selection looks lacking now, but I'm sure they'll add a ton of new stuff after release.

@tajash: well theres not alot of colors to choose from, just black, brown and err a shade variation of those.

@beat89:
Halo 3 wasnt the only one that had a "slick beta". Warhawk had a great beta

@Achenar: It probably decided that with your Konami ID.

Black is the new Black.
Apparently, in 2008, it recycled back to black.

And MGO better work this weekend, or there'll be some blood. And it won't be mine (actually, it'll probably be mine, pouring from the wrist I just slit).

@tajash: I don't know if you realized it, but real military attire is usually those colors.

I hope you weren't expecting to have people playing this game running around in bright Halo colors.

I think the creation was pretty slick in this video. I think PS3 owners could need at least on exclusive game with great online and offline.

wow, that looks pretty in depth. Up to four distinct Heads of varying racial ethnicities.

And he got disconnected at the end!

@Nolite: resistance, fanboy

@KreacherOfBloodandRank: dude your flaming a beta

I was just thinking that it would have been cool to import your Home avatar into MGO. That is, if Home was released and Konami worked with Sony on it and stuff.

Why did this person spend almost 5 minutes creating such a boring look?

please tell me this isn't the extent of the customization. I eman really there isn't much to choose from, either in looks or the color of the character. The faces were decent, but really? Only 4 heads to choose from? I hope the full release will have more.

@DataScream: I'm pretty sure that it will have more when the actual Starter Pack is released. I hope so anyway.

If they don't, they will most likely add some through updates using the PS Store or something.

that's some pretty damn intense character creation music goin on there

I imagine a gazillion choir of "go go go" variants coming out of the same four faces cloned to infinity.

Finally was able to register my Konami ID a minute ago. Hopefully a good sign for the overall server stability.

go go speed racer.

@Knight-Zero: I really, really hope so. Because, well. That would be sort of shit.

Was that sarcasm, Mr. Ashcraft?

THPS, WWE, KOTOR, Mass Effect, and a ton of other games do character creation better than this. Of course, I can understand Konami's decision to go this route -- easier to make items fit on the models -- but I don't see any big differences between any of the characters. Fanny pack, or no fanny pack? You choose! Oh boy!

If they wanted to get people in a tizzy, they should have shown stuff like an alligator cap, or cleavage or something...SOMETHING!

I did not like my MGO beta experiance but i just found the ending hilarious.

@Beyene: The voice pitch modulation is a PS3 feature that games can offer an interface to, not a game specific feature. You can go manually set it to affect every game. Be warned though, it's hard to understand people on the really low settings.

@Shteve: Most middle eastern people look like Spanish people.

@Beyene:

I know PSU had the voice customization.

Man, I won't lie, the customization and level up progress is a huge pull for me. Like, huge lol.

I do wish that we had the option of lightening the skin tone and adding different facial hair or something.

For the Europeans, do we still have to go through the trouble of creating KONAMI ID's and GAME ID's? Haven't bothered to download the game yet (due to it being flooded out when I tried) but if I know that Europe still needs to create them in order to play I can get that sorted at least.

I am so glad they included safety helmets. With all those men running around someone could get hurt.

anyone else laugh at the network error?

@Sentientv2: IRL when explosions, debris and bullets start flying around you will be damned thankful for that piece of protection on your head.

No real camouflage, just colours? Eh, bit naff.

It's pretty deep. Be the white,black,latino or asian guy.