Video: Facial hair - gaming's best storyteller?

Whatever your stance on the humble moustache, mutton chops, beard or goatee, facial hair can be found growing with reckless abandon on a number of gaming's most memorable protagonists (and a few forgettable ones to boot). Once you delve a bit deeper, however, a pattern starts to emerge from among the bristles; facial hair is, basically, game developer shorthand for emotional development.

Don't believe me? Watch the video below and you'll soon see that if a game character wants to do a bit of grieving, they best chuck away their shaving kit first.