One of the joys of any online roleplaying game is that of course, you’re not limited to playing your own sex. Fancy seeing life from the other side? Go right ahead.

As well as male and female characters, City of Heroes offers a third option for the males - the Huge body type, specially designed for those oversized types often found as Tankers within teams. (That certainly doesn’t mean you’re limited to that stereotype though; how about a Controller or Blaster that looks like an oversized bouncer?)

Your choices don’t stop there though. Thanks to the Body Scaling options, you can recreate almost any physical look you want with a move of a slider. You can alter your hero’s overall physique, shoulders, chest, waist, hips and legs, and there are four standard body types to help you along.

By default, you’ll start with a male hero of ‘athletic’ build, standing a heroic six foot, five inches tall, but don’t stop there… experiment! How about a teenage hero? Or a stout, stocky dwarf from the pages of a fairy-tale? A tall, elegant society belle turned into a crimefighter - or a blue collar worker with a touch of middle-aged spread. It’s all possible with some imagination and a bit of tweaking.

Remember, you really want to try and coordinate your Body Type choice with your hero’s costume - the good news is, if you realise half way through your costume choices that you need to tweak your Body Scaling, you can do just that. One word of warning though: change your hero’s sex and you’ll lose your costume choices so far, so be careful… but have fun!