avatar?

We play x box, PS3, Wii... and in all these console games we create our own avatar to participate the game. personally, I play x box games and I like it very much. In the game I have my own avatars and it seems really cool. 

Which factors will make people to decide which avatars to create? probability male and female will have different ideas. Male are more willing to create a strong and powerful one while female are more willing to create a more lovely one. Also people will create their avatars depend on the game they are playing. For some role playing games people will more likely to create a stronger one to win each game while in some skill games people are more willing to chose a smart one to do each assignment. 

Different console will offer different avatars. For example, in Wii, the avatars are totally different than those in x box games. In Wii, there have a lot of cartoon characters. In a Racing game, there are many different avatars can be chosen, and all of them have different skills and abilities. I will chose different characters depend on the different matches.

Overall, avatar can be chosen by people themselves in the games. Although they are not realism, but they are people themselves in some way, because they are controlled by people.