Sea of Thieves' character creator won't be for everyone

In so many games, you create characters using a raft of customisation options, tweaking sliders to pick from a variety of faces, body types and skin colours, among many other things, to create the character who will see you through the game.

Sea of Thieves, the upcoming shared-world pirate adventure game from Rare, does character creation differently - via a mechanic called the Infinite Pirate Generator. In short, don't expect to see a character slider anywhere in the game.

When you start Sea of Thieves, you're asked to pick your pirate. Inside a virtual tavern, the game generates a random selection of eight pirates in real-time based on a number of component parts which are blended together. You get a mixture of age, ethnicity, gender, body size, "wonkiness" and how pirate they look versus how heroic they look. It looks like this:

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