The Top 7… extreme game character makeovers

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The gaming stars who went under the knife for drastic redesigns

Facelifts and other forms of cosmetic surgery aren’t just for aging MILFs, dried-up Hollywood C-listers and 40 stone blobs who have to get forklifted out of their beds. No, sometimes our favourite game stars need a bit of a nip and tuck too. After all, there’s no point battling hordes of the undead or saving the planet from a cult of religious alien zealots if you’re sporting last season’s armour or an out of date ‘do. In the spirit of self improvement, the following image-conscious characters all went under the digital scalpel for radical and flirty design changes in the hope of catching fickle gamers’ eyes.

7. Master Chief

Before…

When Spartan 117 hit the Xbox scene in late 2001 he debuted with a reasonably fetching, if rather bland ensemble. While his spacesuit might have given him sturdy protection against plasma grenades, it wasn’t that eye-catching. Observing his old get up now, he looks more like a common ODST than the monosyllabic saviour of humanity.

After…

Oprah! Make Over My Man!


Above: We’ve not seen her show in a while, but Oprah still speaks with a Cockney accent, right?

Before…

This Arabian Hugh Grant wannabe might be a bit of a bumbling fop… but he was our bumbling fop . A gentle action hero, the Prince and his game Sands of Time were perhaps too pure and polite to survive in the cutthroat, testosterone-twisted gaming market of 2003. Still, the Aladdin–esque baggy trousers and circa 1998 curtains hairstyle affirmed that this guy was the unthreatening sort you’d love to take home to your doting old mum…

After…

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