Create-a-player
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Create-a-player is a video game mode where, as the title states, players can create a character. Usually found in sports games as a means to add a player to a roster, it's also common in other types of games as well, such as fighting and RPGs.
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[edit] Team sports
The most common and possibly earliest occurrence of create-a-player is in team sports games, where you can simply add a person to your team by giving them a name, choosing features like skin color and vital stats (height, weight, birthplace, etc.) and then adding them to a team. In games featuring professional leagues, they usually end up in the league's free agency pool, in which case you can sign them to the team of your choice. In collegiate sports games, you usually have to choose a team beforehand, as there is no free agency in the NCAA. In most cases, you can customize your abilities by distributing attribute points. Sometimes there is a limited number; other times there isn't.
[edit] Career mode
In some games, a feature known as career mode in most titles allows you to create a player and then focus solely on that person. Tasks you have to complete usually include fighting for a place on a team, negotiating your contract, demanding trades and deciding when to retire.
[edit] Individual sports
In games based on individual sports, the create-a-player is similar to the career mode in team games, only features and tasks are tailored to the events and tasks of individual sports, such as Tennis or Golf (e.g. moving up from low-tier events to major ones, being sponsored/endorsed, etc.).
[edit] Fighting games
While not included in many titles, a feature of some fighting games may be to modify the costumes of fighters, purchase new items to wear from some sort of currency won during gameplay, or create an entire fighter from scratch. Other games, like Fighter Maker, Mortal Kombat: Armageddon, and Def Jam Fight For NY allow you to create a player completely, similar to the individual sports game model, including their fighting technique.
[edit] Create-a-Superstar
One of the first wrestling games to include create-a-player is WWF War Zone from Acclaim in 1998. It was at this time the feature for creating wrestlers in video games became more or less known as create-a-superstar, primarily because wrestlers that work for World Wrestling Entertainment are known as WWE Superstars. As wrestling itself usually portrays, the possibilities are near endless for the type of character that can be created, which spawns various creations depending on the variety of the game's feature. There are websites in which people share their creations as well as their own versions of actual wrestlers, filling gaps of people not included in a game's rosters (e.g. adding Brock Lesnar to Smackdown vs Raw 2006).
