Download the PSO2 Character Creator Now

As promised, Sega has released the Phantasy Star Online 2 character creator and benchmarking tool for public download.

The installer can be downloaded from the official PSO2 Web site here. Your download speed may vary due to high volume.

For those people who haven't participated in either of the previous two alpha tests (myself included), this should be a great chance to play around with one of the most highly demoed and discussed features of the game. Created characters can be saved to disk, and can apparently be uploaded to use in the closed beta once that begins later this month.

The benchmarking tool portion of the application outputs a score that you can use to tweak the game settings so that PSO2 will run optimally. Sega has provided the following suggestions depending on your benchmark score:

• Below 2000: Graphics settings should be adjusted down
• 2001 - 5000: Minor changes may be needed to play optimally
• Over 5000: No problems; use whatever settings you want

I'm interested to see how my laptop performs, though I'm pretty sure the desktop PC I eventually buy for this game will blow it out of the water.