Shooters with a lot of weapons. Online shooters with leveling up

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10.Grand Theft Auto Online

The character editor in GTA Online is not the best (the hero's appearance is determined not by sliders, but by the genetic code of the parents), but if you go to a hairdresser directly in the game, you can be stuck there for a long time, sorting through stacks of prepared beards, mustaches, hairstyles and tattoos. And in the local store you will find a huge number of additional “goodies”: T-shirts, bandanas, leather jackets and other paraphernalia of a real bandit. The events of this online game take place 2 months before the single-player campaign, but the set of entertainment is absolutely identical: shooting at cops, robbing stores, visiting strip clubs, senseless and merciless fights on the streets.

9. Blade & Soul

Before diving into the world of ancient Korea, the game offers a short journey into the realm of shiny latex and combat nighties. The local editor is unusually cool in terms of variety of choice, but marked with a stamp of concentrated glamor. The characters in Blade & Soul look like living dolls that someone accidentally doused with sunflower oil. It looks beautiful, sexy, but completely unrealistic. In the game itself you will find “doboki” - costumes for taekwondo training, which in the game have nothing to do with this martial art. This is simply a collective name for armored swimsuits, the number of which amounts to hundreds.

8.Aion

Despite its age (Aion was released in 2007), this MMORPG still holds its own against many character customization games. Its editor traditionally offers a solid set of eyebrows, ears, eyes and other body parts, from which, unlike Blade & Soul, you can create a completely realistic character. Or, on the contrary, you can make a completely insane quasi-mode with large arms, tiny legs and an exaggerated head. After 10 years, this classic MMORPG feels great: 32 (!) updates, a huge number of awards (including a whole stack of “Best Game of the Year” titles), 6 localizations and consistently high online throughout the game’s existence.

7. Spore

Probably the only game in which you can create new species. It all starts with an ordinary cell, which happily splashes around in the primeval broth and mates with its relatives. The fun begins in the second stage, when the cell turns into a multicellular creature. You determine its shape and other features yourself - the number of tails, horns and other gills in the local editor is huge. The most interesting thing is that the resulting monster will be viable no matter what you stuff it with. This is where the adventures of the mad biologist end, and the adventures of the armchair strategist begin - in the next stages of evolution you have to steer entire tribes and civilizations.

6. Archeage

5. The Sims 4

A real life designer in which the characters go about their business, even if you don't press a single button for hours. In the fourth part, Maxis significantly updated the editor: now it is not a standard set of sliders, but completely manual settings. Grab the Sim by the ear/mouth/nose/eyebrow and pull in the right direction. It’s the same with the body: if you want, you can create a good-natured fat man, a steroid jock, or an anorexic woman concerned about weight. The only thing that spoils the impression is the sterile textures, which make the characters look like plastic mannequins.

4. Saints Row 4

In fact, a clone of GTA 5 with a parody twist, in which there was a place for racing, puzzles, superpowers and even aliens. Who kidnapped one of the “saints” and stuck him in the virtual reality of Steelport, where the main character can bend spoons with the power of thought, throw fireballs and cause earthquakes. The character editor in Saints Row 4 allows you to mercilessly bend eyebrows and other parts of the face, and thus create not just unique characters, but characters that look like real celebrities (YouTube is replete with videos where players easily sculpt “Keanu Reeves” and “Mike Tysons”) . In the game itself, everything can be customized, from the color of socks to the butt of the plasma gun.

3. EVE Online

It’s a paradox, but in a game where the character’s avatar is displayed as a static picture in the chat, there is one of the most technologically advanced editors. This is all an echo of the 2011 Incursion add-on, which was supposed to become the basis for the introduction of the notorious “walking through stations.” We didn’t have time to get to the stations, limiting ourselves to absolutely pointless walking around our own cabin. The idea, frankly, is not very smart, considering that EVE Online is a purely space MMORPG. Plans for the implementation of full-fledged heroes were shelved, but the editor remained a sediment, becoming a kind of tombstone to the developers’ attempts to introduce elements of casualness into “Eve.” In general, this game has great character customization, but there’s not much point in trying in the editor.

2. Fallout 4

RPG, shooter and “desert scavenger simulator” in one bottle. Today this is the largest and most detailed post-apocalyptic “sandbox” with complete freedom of choice, an incredibly cool crafting system “of everything” and a cool editor. The game was created on the Skyrim engine, so it looks clumsy in places, but in terms of the elaboration of the surrounding world it has practically no competitors. The world of the crazy Wasteland, created by Bethesda developers, is unusually attractive with its rusty atmosphere of general decline, in which the main character looks like an alien element. A worthy continuation of the series and a good reason to spend 400 hours on the computer - this is exactly how much, according to the authors, you will need to complete the main and side quests.

1.Black Desert

The character editor in this online game turned out to be so cool that the developers even released a separate version of it. Only the face in the editor has 38 zones, and each of them has 9 sliders. What can I say if even the length of the phalanges of the fingers can be adjusted. Depending on your goals, the result may be either an outright freak like the Joker, or a beautiful beauty who can even now be sent to the cover of a glossy magazine. The game itself is an excellent representative of a non-target MMORPG with a huge open world and large-scale battles for territories.

Best Weapon Customization Games

Well, for those for whom customizing the appearance of the hero is not enough, we offer the five best projects with weapon customization. We're not talking about skins that fall out of loot boxes, but about detailed weapon customization to please your inner maniac.

5. Dead Rising 3

It's always fun to kill zombies, but it's even more fun to do it in unusual ways. Dead Rising 3 offers everything you need for such entertainment. From the local pieces of iron you can sculpt completely insane devices, like a killer shopping cart or a toy helicopter with blades instead of blades. The number of options is huge, and the outcome is not always predictable, which only adds to the absurdity of what is happening.

4. Payday 2

3. Combat Arms: Line of Sight

A strong representative of online shooters with one small feature. Weapon customization here is implemented at the highest level. Everything can be customized: magazines, muzzle brakes, sights, silencers, stocks, appearance. Each change is reflected in the characteristics of the “trunk”, which is kindly reported in the corresponding column. Unfortunately, most of the bells and whistles are available for donation. Line of Sight also has about 25 game modes, which, in fact, is a record.

2. Escape from Tarkov

1. Ghost Recon Wildlands

The war against drug cartels requires the appropriate equipment. And the game provides it. There are 89 basic types of weapons here, and each of them can be modified beyond recognition. True, you will first have to find the necessary parts, and they are scattered throughout the game world. Which, by the way, turned out to be indecently large. The main means of deporting bad guys to another world will be a sniper rifle, but other equipment is also in demand. Even a banal flare gun can be useful, for example, to distract the attention of base guards. Graphically, Ghost Recon Wildlands leaves a mixed feeling, but this is compensated by the well-executed co-op.

Oh, it’s a pity that the good Austrian doctor Sigmund Freud did not see the blessed times of the appearance, formation and development of video games - if only he had food for thought and a reason for writing countless scientific treatises! For example, when a young man in some RPG creates a girl and plays as her - what is this? Some latent danger? Or is it still a normal, peasant desire NOT to look at the buttocks of a male ward for 60, 120, or even all 400 hours? Without old man Freud, you won’t be able to figure it out.

At the same time, creating a character - regardless of gender - is a very, very troublesome matter. So, in order to need a psychiatrist or a sexologist, you still have to try. Otherwise, you wouldn’t have to call a plastic surgeon, or even a euthanasia specialist. So to speak, so that the most hopeless virtual creatures do not suffer.

Either the developers of some games do this intentionally, or it happens by accident, but often the character creation editors come out too funny or scary (or funny AND scary at the same time). In general, we decided to rank the five most egregious cases - especially since the reason is simply wonderful. Spoiler: he comes first.

5. Saints Row IV

IMHO of the author: Saints Row III and IV have the Best Character Creation Editors of All Times and Peoples. But these masterpieces of software engineering still had to be classified as inadequate. Because in the mentioned parts of Saints Row, having played well with the settings, you can create a dream woman who will make all the stars of the catwalks of Milan, Paris and London feel flawed, and all feminists burst with indignation.

Volition’s overt sexism will make you regret that the age of 3D printers printing cyborgs has not yet arrived, and the myth of Pygmalion and Galatea is just a myth. In fact, the character editor in Saints Row IV (and III, don’t forget!) can be called the most adequate. After all, thanks to its extraordinary flexibility, you can create a very corpulent girl who will stop a galloping horse, enter a burning hut, and crush any politically incorrect body shamer with her immense... intelligence.

Besides, the girls who played Saints Row - are there even such girls!? - they could come up with any male character they wanted: an alpha hunk, a slender handsome guy, or a hybrid of these two key ingredients in any proportions. Unfortunately, Volition then chose to take the easiest - conformist - path: in Gat out of Hell there was no longer a scandalous editor, and the new Agents of Mayhem, judging by the demo, will be a game for children.

4. Technomancer

Honor and praise to Focus Home Interactive and Spiders for the mere fact of their existence. The world of game development has long been split into two polar camps: AAA and indie. And only a few dinosaurs, on the verge of extinction, still risk creating 2A products, although the roar of an approaching meteorite is heard louder and louder.

Actually, Technomancer isn't that bad. We even recommend trying it out during the deepest Steam sale. And what? Stitching Dark Souls to a budget Mass Effect with rough threads is not a bad idea. If you do not support such games with long rubles, dollars and euros, then you yourself will then find yourself alone with the trinity of EA - Activision Blizzard - Ubisoft, and you will cry that they make the same products.

But we are not talking about the game now, but about the character editor. Which is disgusting. Spiders should have abandoned the options altogether and tried to make a complete hero, like the Witcher. But no. The player is offered to create several versions of the handsome man, and for “uniqueness” add several scars and marks to him, which look as if they were applied at the last moment by intern make-up artists from Bollywood. Yes, and there is no “Female” button at all. Complete failure.

3. The Elder Scrolls: Morrowind (+Oblivion)

We get it: it was 2002 (and 2006), Bethesda was making character editors the best they could. Of course, what we present to you directly here for judgment are cases in extremis. But remember that pressing the Random button led to very disastrous results, albeit less severe than the following.

Even in order to turn the initially proposed homunculus into the semblance of a great hero, the sliders had to be moved well. Well, to create a beauty or a handsome man, you had to spend hours studying voluminous fan guides. And it’s not even the low polygonality of these cult RPGs, released almost 15 and 11 years ago, respectively. Bethesda just messed something up with the anatomy of the human face.

It's nice to know that the company is learning from its mistakes. In Fallout 4, players were already offered by default a completely decent Italian immigrant (?) with a wife. The couple didn’t even cause fear, and if desired, they could be turned into a real picture.

2. The Division

The Division is a great game and I've spent countless hours playing it. But there is one point for which we will never tire of criticizing Ubisfot’s creation, and this is not even balance in the dark zone. And the character editor. “Well, where are you girls?” - asks the once popular ensemble Ruki Vverh in its song of the same name, and we join this cry of the soul.

No, of course, unlike Technomancer, The Division has a female gender. But he's kind of androgynous. A set of six faces of homosexual singers and tired dark-skinned pharmacists is unlikely to inspire anyone. And it's not just about faces. Surely many of you are familiar with the joy of trying on new armor on a character, especially if it is the Adamantium Thong of Wisdom or the Silver Corset of Dexterity. But in The Division, your ward only has 20 colorful down jackets and 20 shapeless cargo pants. Eroticism over 9000.

Even before the release, the creative team of The Division said that they would like to see female heroines in a game in the style of a girl next door. That is, they should look like an ordinary neighbor. The author has not been to New York, but is inclined to assume that there are neighbors there that will make you rock. And Ubisoft, most likely, just wanted to avoid any feminist showdowns with Anita Sarkesian, who was at the peak of her popularity at that time.

1. Conan: Exiles

So we get to the great and terrible Conan, who inspired the creators of Dungeons & Dragons, in fact, to create Dungeons & Dragons. Arnold Schwarzenegger, incarnated as Conan the Barbarian, went into exile, and other exiles, that is, players, are periodically sent there - to the desert.

Norwegian FunCom, which previously released serious MMOs like The Secret World, has now turned to something more fashionable and modern: open world survival. We explore, collect, craft, survive, build - in general, everything is like in Ark: Survival Evolved. Only instead of dinosaurs and jungles there is a desert, giant monsters and giant...

The fact is that at the very beginning of the game, when creating a male character, you will be asked to choose the size of the causal place. If a slider with the size of a woman’s breasts, buttocks and hips is familiar to everyone, then the same strip for the phallus is already an innovation! But what is its meaning? Maybe this is the objectification of men, and it’s time to sound the alarm and organize a movement a la Sarkesian, only in defense of the male sex? One more question: will young men playing as male characters default to XXXL size, or will they honestly stick to more realistic sizes? In the end, personal belongings are needed in order to make a tea bag, and funny screenshots are already appearing in the Steam community in which tea is brewed with the help of defeated female warriors.

To summarize. You need to sit down at the table, light candles, take a deck of cards with letters and a magnifying glass: without a spiritualistic session with Freud, it is physically impossible to understand such subtle (or thick!?) issues.

At the request of our readers, we have compiled the TOP 20 of the best RPG games of all time, in our opinion. Absolutely all the games on this list were released on PC, which makes them accessible and especially popular. The TOP includes both generally accepted masterpieces of the past and the latest blockbusters from the gaming industry. Go!

21. Arcanum: Of Steamworks & Magick Obscura

The game from developer Troika game may seem a little more than just Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines with its fantasy races and magical spells, and by introducing a significant amount of steampunk technology into it, you are on the way to something special.

Arcanum is a tricky beast, with plenty of unbalanced turn-based combat. It's also packed with a compelling story set in a world where magic and technology collide in a non-linear do-what-you-want fashion.

When I first entered the world of Arcanum, almost everyone hated me. I had the intelligence of a baby and could barely hold a conversation, I was an orc and was constantly the victim of fanaticism, I could make a deal with a demon, so everyone thought I was evil. My mechanic Goblin, with his arachnid structures, weapons and sharp tongue, had a much more successful experience. The choices made during character creation have a significant impact on the entire game, with the character's race and background having a tangible impact on their relationships with non-player characters.

More than any other game on this list, Arcanum makes you feel like you're playing a tabletop RPG. Dungeon Masters isn't always fair, and you may be disempowered, but it's still worth it to enjoy the game through character development and how the world reacts to your half-elf demon circus.

20. Shadowrun Returns/Dragonfall

Shadowrun Returns is a welcome relic of the '90s. Based on the classic tabletop role-playing game, it's a neo-noir cyberpunk mystery with lots of magic, fantasy elements and combat that's reminiscent of XCOM. She creates a lot of things and they are all just wonderful. Set in a future land where science and the realm of mysterious struggle coexist and creatures such as elves and trolls walk the streets alongside humans, players find themselves in the guise of a shadow courier, a dark mercenary skilled in espionage.

A Career in Shadowrun Returns is a realistic detective story that begins with an investigation into the death of a friend, with the promise of payback, and evolves into a tale of conspiracy, corrupt police, serial killers and a crazed cult. Without voiceover, the recording carries a story with a twisted sense of humor.

Free-form character building will allow players to create all sorts of unusual species, from spirit casters who can also enter the digital kingdom and fight computer programs to samurai who run around with a bunch of controlled robots. Investing points in charisma also unlocks affinities with different types of people, corporate security, other shadow couriers or street gangs, new streets in your investigation and dialogue options.

While the career path is short and mostly linear, Dragonfall nips this issue in the bud. This is a substantial expansion with a hub, containing many additional missions and a group of suitable characters with their own motivations and stories. The game comes with a comprehensive editor that contains the prospect of the user creating countless campaigns. Someone has already recreated the old game Shadowrun on SNES, which is also worthy of your attention.

19. Mount & Blade: Warband

The top of the line, Mount & Blade: Warband is an open world fantasy RPG meets medieval simulator that basically means you never have to look at the real world again. Warband immerses players in a giant sandbox where six factions fight each other for supremacy, there is no story, and it leaves it up to the player to decide what they want to do.

Perhaps the showman in you will inspire you to become a master of the spear and a champion of many tournaments, or perhaps your eye for making deals will lead you to the path of a wealthy merchant, and you will use your mountains of gold to finance an army of mercenaries who will protect They will bring you fame or maybe you are just a good-for-nothing scammer, and if so, then the gangster life is for you.

As you travel around the map, you will no doubt find yourself ambushed by enemies, or maybe you will become the one who arranges them, but either way, you will undoubtedly find yourself in a brawl. Skill-based combat that requires fancy footwork, excellent timing and the right weapons to attack with precision in different situations. It's hard to figure out what's going on there, but in the long run it's very useful. You will likely have an army on your side, leading to some particularly large conflicts. She can undergo training, gain experience and be equipped with new equipment, although you will have to pay her a salary.

Warband adds multiplayer and a variety of mods, including some impressive overhauls. This game will easily consume your life if you let it.

18. South Park: The Stick of Truth

Surprisingly, South Park manages to be not just great, but one of the best RPGs we've ever had the pleasure of playing.

This is South Park at its best. Oto perfectly recreates the city with a piercing, insightful, and often grotesque satire of gaming and pop culture. Fantasy tropes, the Kardashians, Nazi zombies, Morgan Freeman's mystical powers - they're all there.

And it's all wrapped up in an RPG that draws on many sources, from JRPG-style combat to Western open-world deals. There's even a sizable dose of metroidvania exploration. Progress never stops - there's always something new around the corner, be it new combat mechanics or a giant dildo.

South Park is a game where you can dress up your child as a punishing Valkyrie and fight Jack Daniels-slurping hobos or anus-possessed aliens - it's incredible.

17. Deus Ex

More than an FPS/RPG hybrid, Deus Ex more than deserves a place on this list, as even after 13 years it remains a joy to play. It is one of the best games ever released. It's probably a little old-fashioned to sing its praises, since it's been a consistent feature of almost every best PC games list since its release in 2001.

I could spend a lot of energy recalling a dramatic story that interweaves themes of conspiracy, terrorism and transhumanism, with intriguing characters and a believable dystopian future. I could go on and on about the extent of character customization, allowing players to mourn JC Denton's shadow and long cape as a cybernetically enhanced soldier, a professional hacker, or a ghost lurking in the shadows. But what I really want to discuss is the incredible level design.

Each map is a comprehensive sandbox for experimentation. Each combat encounter has the potential to be played in strikingly different ways. Should you actually engage in said fights instead of walking past them? Secret paths, hidden caches, informants waiting to be bribed and confidential information revealing new routes and features that spread out the levels, ensuring that when players discuss their experiences, they seem to be talking about different games.

And it's all so organic. There's usually a strong temptation for developers to clearly highlight the choices that can be made, essentially explaining the mission objectives - where you can go and what you should do, but in Deus Ex this is a surprise to everyone. You don’t know that hacking a computer and reading personal letters will give you a code that allows you to defeat a tough enemy without a fight, and you don’t know that a product hidden within the level will open up a previously invisible, unimaginable route to the mission goal - you you should just go and explore.

Thanks to my bad memory, and all the places I'd never gone, the fights I'd missed, and the people I'd never met before, going back to it a couple of years ago and playing it again felt like it was the first time. I can't wait to play Deus Ex again in a couple of years. But you must do it now.

16. Dark Souls

Dark Souls is a masochistic RPG game. Brutal, merciless combat in a dark, dead land where the words “You're dead” begin to become an old friend, albeit a mocking one, is grueling gaming scum, but endlessly rewarding. Each battle is a puzzle that requires skill, good timing and observation of the enemy's stories. It is exhausting because death is always a missed attack or a misunderstanding of the opponent. But this is what makes every victory a worthy prize, creates the potential for increasing power, and moving on to a new, even more difficult area.

The free-form character development and enemy design are top notch, both in terms of their grotesque appearance and tricky mechanics that are highly commendable, and in the sense of completion that comes from surviving despite the oddities, which makes Dark Souls worth continuing to play. despite constant failures.

A gratuitously old-fashioned game design philosophy permeates throughout the tense adventure, but it's also equipped with modern complexity and scale. Different weapons and armor completely change the flow of battle and the feel of the character, with a hefty sword and heavy armor covered in armor having a huge, tangible impact on strikes and movement. Hidden throughout the vast, semi-open world are cornucopia trinkets and magical items, rewarding inquisitive players for their adventurous explorations of long-forgotten tombs and underground cities.

15. Divinity: Original Sin

The latest version of the Divinity series from developer Larian is not just a return to classic RPGs, but a continuation of them. It's a modern game, but builds on the classic design philosophy of games like Ultima and Baldur's Gate.

From our review of Divinity: Original Sin: “When I play Divinity, I'm back in my parents' office, happily avoiding homework as I explore the vast city of Atkatla. I'm overstaying my welcome at my friend's house and chatting with Lord British. And it's not because the game captivates me with nostalgia, but because it can evoke the same feelings: that excitement of doing something crazy and watching it work, the surprise when an inanimate object starts talking to me and sends me into a portal jumping around the world. There is fantasy and excitement there, and these things have become rare values. But Divinity: Original Sin is full of them.”

This is an RPG game that focuses on what the genre could be, rather than what it has become. Where conflict isn't just about fighting, where magic can be used to solve puzzles and manipulate the environment rather than just kill enemies, and where simple, non-main quests can be turned into rewarding, huge undertakings.

And it comes with a robust editor so you can create your own adventure, and expand the game's co-op mode so you don't have to wander the world alone. Stopping the evil in him is, after all, a job for friends.

A sequel called Divinity: Original Sin II was launched on Kickstarter.

14. Legend of Grimrock 2

Legend of Grimrock 2 was released relatively recently, but it actually comes from a time when playing an RPG meant you needed a constant stream of graph paper and the patience to draw lots of maps.

It builds on the excellent foundation laid by its impressive predecessor, taking four adventurers within one, large dungeon and giving them an entire incredibly diverse island to explore. There are towers, crypts, dungeons, forests, swamps, beaches and all sorts of fantastic locations that are waiting to be explored. She's huge. So big that I admit I needed the automap a lot more than I did in the previous game. I have so much graph paper.

Hero parties take up one tile and are essentially just their strength and combat abilities, but that's not what they're about. Journey through dark and dank dungeons, intense real-time combat with disgusting, often hulking monsters, the terrible fear you experience when lost in a maze, riddles that sometimes require factual notes - that's what it's about.

Class and race selection has been greatly improved, allowing parties to hold off gun-carrying informers, or farmers who gain experience by eating a variety of foods. Complete nonsense.

13. Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn

While my love for RPGs stems from Ultima, which is missing from this list due to being outdated, I also love Baldur's Gate from developers Black Isle and BioWare. From the first issues of 1998's Baldur's Gate to 2001's expansion Baldur's Gate II: Throne of Bhaal, the successive plans, trials and tribulations of adventurers from the rugged Sword Coast to the wealthy city of Atkatla, where magic is at mostly illegal, and beyond to the turbulent kingdom of Tetur.

However, in Baldur's Gate II there are a lot of inaccuracies in the action sequences.

Dungeons and Dragons of the Land of Forgotten Realms is meticulously recreated and filled to the brim with a luxurious setting just waiting to be explored. And what kind of quests are there! Hundreds of hours of saving villages, diving into mines, fighting mad wizards, killing gnolls, and even a trip to the Plains, explored in more detail in Planscape: The Trial, and a deadly adventure into the Underdark.

Baldur's Gate juggles wit and satire with solemnity and significance, drawing players into seemingly simple quests. It's a party of adventurers joining the hero, who of course gets none other than the notorious Ranger Minsk talking to his space hamster Boo. Baldur's Gate II also has the distinction of having one of the best adversaries of any game in John Irenicus, masterfully voiced by top-notch villain stunt double David Warner. Arrogant, powerful and disfigured with a hint of tragedy around him, Irenicus has all the hallmarks of a classic villain, and even though he is not present for most of the game, his influence permeates everything around him.

12. Torchlight II

If you are looking for an action RPG game, then Torchlight II is definitely for you. There's no time for an intriguing plot or interesting characters, they'll only get in the way of the many - and I do mean tons - of loot and the ruthless horde of monsters.

Torchlight II has a frantic pace, seeing its players running across a huge map, killing oceans of enemies, and never stopping to catch their breath (unless you're on a fishing trip). Gold and items explode from fallen enemies in absurd quantities, covering the land in treasures and trinkets. There's always some new trinket to play, some new, colorful armor to show off, or powerful items to purchase, giving the game a constant sense of progression and trapping that will draw you into its world for many hours.

Even though there are only four classes in the game, each of them has three separate skills associated with different fighting styles that completely change the class. One Engineer might be a heavily armored tank charging into battle with a comically large hammer, while another might stalk enemies from afar with equally comically large guns. Within each class there are tons of completely different skills, inspiring experiments and multiple playthroughs.

And, of course, everything looks bloody beautiful. It may be a game of robbery and murder, but there's no rule that says the setting can't be bright and colorful. The monster designs are worth emulating, featuring a range of bizarre abominations to kill, and colossal bosses that are both mechanically and visually impressive.

Torchlight II also allows you to travel with your pet. Having good taste, I am never without my faithful bulldog, unless I send him to the stores to sell the loot. Yes, these animals are mercantile specialists. If all of this isn't worth the price of admission, then I don't know what is.

11. Mass Effect 2

Wedded to the subgenres of speculative fiction and soap opera, Mass Effect 2 is BioWare's greatest achievement in terms of peace, or rather, the rise of the galaxy. The exploration and pseudoscience of Star Trek, the cinematic action of Battlestar Galactica, and the fantasy elements of Star Wars or the wimpy science fiction of the early 20th century are all here and combined expertly.

Humans are newcomers to the galactic community, and they must stir things up to get the elder races to acknowledge the growing threat to their existence. How do they do this? With the help of a temperamental soldier, of course. Commander Shepard is a great character because he's my character. It's impossible to characterize him because for many he is really a she, and instead of being a grizzled, oppressed, glory-hunting hero like he or she was in my game, he or she may be cruel, a racist bastard, or a paragon of virtue , which does not allow anyone to die.

There is an entire galaxy to explore, with realistic alien races steeped in knowledge, settlements to escape, smugglers to kill, or desperate cases to complete. But Mass Effect 2 is really focused on preparing for a suicide mission despite the possible benefits. All good company of aliens must be recruited and their loyalty must be won if there is any hope of destroying a threat that most of the galaxy seems to ignore.

Dramatic and artful set-pieces, if not particularly interesting, are the team combat highlighted by BioWare's trademark, excellent dialogue and just wandering around alien locations that are seriously captivating. Suspend your disbelief for ten minutes and you'll find yourself on a sci-fi ride from hell.

There are plenty of games where you can create your own hero. Here is a list of the best games that have a very good character editor. If you want even more games where you can create your own hero or character, then look towards life simulators.

Series (The Elder Scrolls)

Release date: 1994-2014

The Elder Scrolls is one of the most famous and beloved series of RPG games with a completely open fantasy world. Each part of “The Ancient Scrolls” is an amazing adventure, where the main character is not tied hand and foot by the main plot, but is free to independently choose what to do and where to go. A lot of different quests, extensive character leveling and a huge game world without “seams” or additional loads - these are the main features of the series. Skyrim is also included in .

In the penultimate part, called Oblivion, the game's graphics and mechanics were seriously tweaked, and a detailed character editor was also added, allowing you to create not just a faceless and nameless avatar, but literally your own or a copy of one of the celebrities. In the last part of the series - Skyrim, all the successful gameplay developments were further developed, and today The Elder Scrolls Skyrim can be called without a twinge of conscience one of the best RPGs of all time!

Star Wars Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy

Release date: 2003

Saints Row is a series of games in which the player has to control the leader of the Saints gang, conquer the city and liberate it not only from rival gangs, but even from aliens. Despite the fact that the first part of Saints Row was created with an obvious eye on the famous GTA, the game has its own unique features and features that have earned it the love and respect of gamers around the world (in particular, some unreality and even surreality of what is happening).

So, in particular, if in the same GTA the main character is always a specific person, then in Saints Row our protagonist is always freely customizable. At the same time, you can change your appearance, physique, race and even gender not only before starting the game, but also during the process by visiting special plastic surgery clinics. Otherwise, the mechanics of Saints Raw are reminiscent of GTA - in most missions you need to kill, rob, catch up and earn money. However, starting from the third part of the game, the plot develops with a fair amount of fantasy.

Mass Effect series

Release date: 2007-2012

Mass Effect - A fantastic action role-playing game in three parts, telling us about the confrontation between Captain Shepard and a race of ancient intelligent machines - the Reapers, who pose a threat not only to people, but to the entire galaxy. The entire series received many positive reviews and is rightfully considered one of the best in its genre (especially since the developers do not often spoil players with real space operas). It is also worth noting that the main character of the series, Captain Shepard, was awarded the “Hero of a Generation” award by the magazine “Gaming”!

Before starting the game, you have the opportunity to customize your character by choosing his gender, appearance, and one of six game classes (soldier, engineer, adept, scout, stormtrooper, guard). The hero is controlled in real time, and there is also a tactical pause that allows you to change weapons or tell your companions which ability they should use now. The plot and the surrounding world here are worked out to the smallest detail, and the choices made, for example, in the first part, can affect the plot in subsequent parts.

Drakensang: The Dark Eye

Release date: 2008

Genres: RPG

Drakensang: The Dark Eye is an RPG game based on the popular German board game Das Schwarze Auge. The player begins immersion into the fantasy world by creating and customizing his character. And here there is room to turn around! In addition to the already typical appearance customization for the genre, the game also allows you to choose your race (each with its own unique traits) and class (of which there are as many as 20!).

A significant role in The Dark Eye is played by the support system, which allows you to recruit partners for your team. Your assistants will not only have their own unique skills, but also a detailed character that manifests itself during the game. The battles are done in real time, but there is also a tactical pause here, which allows you to carry out certain manipulations with your team. The plot is excellent with a whole bunch of conspiracies, secrets and heroic deeds, and the world is worked out almost to the smallest detail.

Spore

Release date: 2008

As in most games of this genre, much attention is paid to the creation and development of your character. So, our protagonist has four main characteristics, which in turn influence the secondary ones. There are many skills, in particular: magic, combat, shooting, crafting, criminal and general. A number of skills cannot be obtained simply; to unlock them, you need to read the corresponding knowledge book. In addition, there are skills here that can only be used if you have certain weapons. There is also alchemy here, which allows you to create a variety of potions with one effect or another, but for crafting the player will have to look for the necessary ingredients.

Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning

Release date: 2012

Genres: RPG, open world

Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning is a single-player RPG with a vast fantasy world consisting of 5 different regions. There is deep character customization. So, in particular, the player can choose one of four races, and leveling up occurs in one of three “class branches” with 22 abilities in each. The choice of race affects not only the appearance, but also the initial characteristics and skills of the character. In addition, the so-called “Fate” system is implemented here, through which various class skills can be available to the character.

Character development here is very flexible. And despite the fact that the initial characteristics and skills are determined by the choice of race, the player begins his journey virtually with a “clean slate”, returning from the other world and waking up in a heap of dead bodies. Special mention should be made of the combat system, based on quickly pressing certain keys (this is found in some Action/RPGs). Despite some minor technical issues, Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning won positive reviews at the time of its release, and even today is considered a strong project that all fans of the genre should check out.

Dragon's Dogma

Release date: 2012

Genres: RPG, open world

Another RPG game on our list with a huge, completely open fantasy world, which also incorporates some elements of such genres as survival horror and hack and slash. The plot here tells how the dragon stole the heart of our main character, but he did not die, and over time he realized that the kidnapper had his own plans for him. The game has a flexible character customization system, several types of professions, it is possible to choose the gender and appearance of our protagonist, and the system of classes and professions will radically influence the gameplay and the tactics available for use.

The main feature of the game is the pawn system. Its essence lies in the fact that the main character can recruit assistants into his squad (up to three characters), while one assistant will be from the player’s world, and the other two will be from the world of other players, borrowed from them via the Internet. You can give orders to squad members, and they themselves can ask you for help or provide information about opponents. It is better to listen to advice, as sometimes it is vital for completing dungeons or surviving traps. The world of Dragon’s Dogma is impressive in size (in the cities alone there are at least 200 NPCs with whom you can somehow interact). Also, a change of day and night is implemented here, and the time of day will also affect the gameplay (at night the game turns into a real survival horror).

Guild Wars 2

Release date: 2012

Genres: MMORPG

Guild Wars 2 - Also on our list is an online role-playing game set in the fictional world of Tyria. The world in the game changes under the influence of players. In addition, Guild Wars 2 decided to move away from the traditional division into classes, the use of magic and the use of most abilities. Each character can develop in the way that is convenient for him, taking, for example, an attacking ability for himself, and in support of it - one of the various healing skills. In general, each profession can fulfill several roles here; the main thing is to choose the right equipment, skills and talents.

Another advantage of the game is the active combat system, when projectiles fly where they were launched and you can dodge them (as well as blows). There are no miss or block parameters here either - everything depends on the skills and abilities of the player himself. An underwater combat system has been implemented. In addition to standard PvP, there are also battles between servers and many different types of battles. Separately, it is worth noting the presence of two storylines - the player’s own story and the general history of the world, which differ from each other, but have an interconnection. For example, a decision made during the passage of one’s own storyline can affect the development of the global plot.

Grand Theft Auto V

Release date: 2013

Genres: shooter, open world

GTA V is a magnificent, grandiose, chic video game in every way that can be described almost endlessly. Surely, if you have not played any game in the series, then at least you have heard a lot of positive reviews about it. The fifth part absorbed all the best that had already been implemented before it, expanding and multiplying the already huge world of GTA. Now the player has a choice of three characters with their own history and unique skills, which can be switched between during the passage. At the same time, despite the fact that our heroes are specific individuals, the possibilities for customizing their appearance are almost limitless.

The plot is interesting and very voluminous. There are 62 main missions alone! Add to this the side quests, as well as the ability to step away from them altogether and do whatever your heart desires (for example, race, play golf, skydive, etc.), and you get a truly monumental game. Tired of playing alone? Create your unique character online and cause total mayhem in Los Santos - rob banks, fight with other players, buy luxury cars, real estate, etc.

Dragon Age: Inquisition

Release date: 2014

Genres: RPG

Dragon Age: Inquisition is a continuation of the series of RPG games in which the player will have to revive the Inquisition and eradicate evil in the world of Thedas. Wars, intrigues, political strife, as well as an invasion of demons, pouring out as if from the opening heavens, await you. Explore a vast and detailed world and stop a new threat, enlisting the help of old and new friends.

Character creation in the game is given no less attention than in the previous part. So, for example, in addition to choosing a race with its own backstory and the class of its hero, the player can customize his gender, appearance, name, voice and even sexual orientation! Initially, there are only three classes (warrior, robber and mage) with four branches of unique abilities, but in the process of passing, a separate branch of inquisitor skills will be opened, as well as nine specializations (of which you can only choose one). As in previous parts of the series, huge emphasis is placed on the plot and the player’s interaction, both with NPCs and fellow party members. The locations have become larger, and interactive objects have been added to them.

XCOM 2

Release date: 2016

XCOM 2 is a turn-based game with RPG elements that takes place twenty years after the events of the first part. The aliens won and colonized our planet. People live mainly in large cities, where they are under total control. And, despite the complete utopia (the absence of crime and disease), it becomes obvious that people are destined for some unpleasant role. For this reason, the XCOM organization is being revived in one of the remote areas, the stronghold of which is the Avenger mobile base, created on the basis of an alien ship. The player takes control of this ship, whose task is now to hire a squad of soldiers, solve the problem of resource extraction and deal with foreign invaders.

As before, our mercenaries are fully customizable, and each of them has their own development tree. Among other things, the base also requires development, for which you will have to obtain alien artifacts. One of the features of the game is generated levels, making each new playthrough unique. Players can expect interesting tactical gameplay with many unique enemies (among which it is worth noting vipers and alien-human hybrids).

Online Games with customization

Neverwinter

Release date: 2016

A role-playing multiplayer game based on the Dungeons & Dragons series, in particular the Forgotten Realms setting. At the beginning, players are invited to create a character for themselves by choosing one of eight classic D&D classes, while the deep customization of their protagonist, both external and his initial parameters, deserves special attention here.

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Another strong point of the project is its strong storyline. Players will often feel like they are playing a solo game on the level of Oblivion or Dragon Age, rather than an MMORPG. And the third key feature of the project is the presence of an editor with which users can create their own content. And this is not only supported, but also encouraged by the developers!

Aion

Release date: 2007

Genre: MMORPG, customization

A game in the MMORPG genre, in which three irreconcilable races – Angels, Demons and Dragons – fight in a fantasy setting. The entire gameplay here is based on this confrontation, and each player is able to influence the outcome of the war. Interestingly, the game has a very deep character customization, which can be customized in detail, both externally and by leveling it up as you play. Those. in this project, you can turn your character into literally anyone by choosing the appropriate class, skills, etc.

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A significant part of the gameplay here is also tied to crafting and trading, since by creating items players can obtain especially valuable things. However, the main goal of the game here is still battles with other players and battles with bosses, for which you will have to carefully select a group.

• Overwatch is an online game. Having decided on a hero, choose a mode - escort, object control or capture the flag. Once on the battlefield, your task is to complete the assigned task and kill as many opponents as possible. After the battle, everyone will have the opportunity to customize weapons and skills. But for this you will need special cards and game currency;
• Tom Clancy's The Division is a shooter with a huge amount of weapons. An epidemic has covered New York and the survivors are divided into several fronts. You have the right to become a marauder, devote time to leveling up or completing quests. Explore the nooks and crannies, collect equipment, learn skills, set up ambushes, etc. etc. A huge selection of weapons and uniforms awaits you;
• Rainbow Six Siege: before you evaluate the skills of the heroes, join the special forces or terrorists. Each character has unique abilities. One can hack cameras, another can launch drones, and the third can set up barriers. Among the features, it is worth highlighting a huge selection of weapon modifications and the ability to destroy any object;
• Infestation: Survivor Story: When the virus left the walls of the laboratory, most of the population turned into zombies. learn to hide, create weapons and confront countless hordes of the walking dead. Unfortunately, zombies are not the only danger. So if life is precious, look for weapon modifications;
• Dark Times is a shooter with a lot of different equipment and weapons. It's the end of the world. Mutants have filled the Earth, but you are lucky, your immunity allowed you to avoid a fatal fate. Are you ready to visit dungeons, take part in shootouts, level up and explore destroyed locations? Then you will definitely enjoy playing the online shooter Dark Times.

Variety of genres

Not all shooters with weapon customization will delight you with graphics, gameplay and content. If none of the above games are suitable, pay attention to other shooting games. Other projects worthy of respect await you on the RBK Games platform. When you get tired of killing, turn your attention to racing games, strategy games, RPGs and simulators. Some will teach you how to win, while others will teach you how to cope with difficulties, control a starship, travel between worlds, etc. The strong point of any shooter is a large selection of weapons. Other games will impress with deadly moves, modern technology, dangerous adventures and flights under the stars. Now you know that there are many interesting projects available on our platform. Stop wasting time, new impressions and emotions are just a matter of registration.