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Many early female video game characters (such as Ms. Pac-Man) are identical to an existing male character, except for a visual marker of their femininity, such as pink bows, lipstick and long eyelashes. [72] [73] Female video game characters have been criticized as having a tendency to be objects of the "male gaze". [74]
Pages in category "Female characters in video games" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 258 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Pharah, real name Fareeha Amari, is a character who first appears in the 2016 video game Overwatch, a Blizzard Entertainment-developed first-person shooter.Voiced by Jen Cohn, she is an Egyptian woman trying to follow in her mother's footsteps, enlisting in a military unit and helping to defend her local community, going by the call sign "Pharah".
Samus Aran (Japanese: サムス・アラン, Hepburn: Samusu Aran) is the protagonist of the video game series Metroid by Nintendo.She was created by the Japanese video game designer Makoto Kano and introduced in the first Metroid (1986) for the Nintendo Entertainment System.
In the 21st century, we’ve encountered different types of women in the games we play — from the smart and resourceful, to the kind-hearted, and even the strong and ambitious.
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The player can change their character's first name, but if the default names of Sara or Scott are kept, NPCs will occasionally refer to the character's first name in voiced dialogue. The Ryder siblings are cryogenically frozen and dispatched alongside their father and tens of thousands of other colonists on a 600-year journey to the Andromeda ...
Reviewing Heart of the Swarm, video-game journalist Alec Meer from Rock Paper Shotgun said that "initially laudable attempts" to make Kerrigan a strong female were undermined by the game only using men to talk her out of making violent decisions. He was particularly critical of the sexualization of both her human and infested forms, calling her ...