I agree the character creator is awesome. There is a skill you can select as you level up that lets you go into a third person view when you are interacting with an object. That means if it takes you 5 seconds to plant a bomb on a door or when you are interacting with a command station it will flip to a 3PS camera and let you look around so you aren't completely blind and waiting to be killed while doing it. You could admire your character then. Other than that there isn't a 3rd person mode in the game so you will have to be satisfied knowing that people saw your awesome character right before they got a respawn notification.

I was so disappointed when this got delayed from September to next spring but as long as they polish it to a gleaming shine I guess I can wait.