I forget if you can do that with the character creator.
I didn't play that game as much as I would have thought... Saints Row II jumped the shark with a smile, but it did have an actual game, with decently written story... SR:the third is ALL SHARK, zero substance, kills off it's best character in 5 minutes, and it's very very short, with lots of pay-for DLC, which still fails to flush out the game much. And it has this 'vibe' to it which is very "this is how rich college kids imagine a gang setting" feel to it. whereas SR 2 had a believable universe (underneath the over-the-top moments). In other words, SR3 is a mockery of SR2.
And yet all game review websites rate SR3 much more highly.
Game reviewers have become one of the most corrupt career fields in the country.