How Elder Scrolls Online’s character creation improves on Skyrim

Many people credit The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim as one of the best role-playing games in its genre, but, arguably, its character-creation system could have more options.

That doesn’t look like it’ll be a problem with The Elder Scrolls Online, the massively multiplayer fantasy online title coming from Skyrim maker Bethesda Softworks. ZeniMax Online Studios and sister firm Bethesda Softworks are teasing some robust new tools in ESO’s character-building engine, showing how the developers have overhauled the entire system to let players drastically tweak their heroes’ faces, bodies, and features.