There is only one week until gamers make a return trip to the mean streets of Stilwater in Saint's Row: The Third, but another milestone has just been met. The Initiation Station demo, that was released about a week ago, allowed players to create their optimal thug. According to Volition, the Initiation Station created characters have now hit the 1 million mark.
Kevin Kraff, Vice President of Global Branding at THQ said, "The characters we’ve seen are mostly ridiculous, often hilarious, and always over-the-top. And now there are a million of them...With the crazed creativity we’ve seen in only one week, we can’t wait to see what’s to come. One million is just the beginning.”
Some of the other statistics that Volition has shared are quite interesting as well. Apparently, the most popular skin tones, aside from the traditional ones, tended to be green, red and silver. Along with 24 characters created with the title of "God" and representing a variety of religious backgrounds. I guess only in Stilwater can you find Christian "God" teaming up with silver-skinned Lao Tzu or a red and metallic Bhudda to take on a luchador street gang for control of Steel Port.
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1:30 PM on 11.09.2011 | 
I should know. I contributed two or three knock-offs of famous comic/videogame characters to that clutter myself!
Isn't that part of the fun? 90% of the 'original' creations are crap. They just picked a shirt, pants and made both whatever their favorite color was. I'd say it takes more originality to skew the options in such a way that replicates something that wouldn't normally be possible in the game.
I'll have endless fun roaming around my game as Duke Nukem or Kinda Master Chief, because that just adds to the sheer ridiculousness already present in the game.
To be fair its more She-Hulk than Hulk so that makes it ok. Also
Enjoy The Poop! http://www.saintsrow.com/community/characters/details/126189308842716458
A perfect Killface (from FriskyDingo) doppleganger, and Blue Tobias (from Arrested Development).
I'm almost ready for a night of a million,billion ninjas at this point. Thinking of which, where are all of the Tick copy-bugs at? Is it because no one else can quite fill his tights?
No offense intended toward XSepjirothX, it's just an unfortunate name.
How in the world could I slip up and leave out the homophone for butt in a single sentence?!
The King of Saints competition is a bit of a damper on the fun of the Initiation Station,though. So much squandered potential in the character creation tool over there.
It reminds me of those Mario Bros. and GTA mash-up videos around the web. Now people can finally play it for themselves beyond hitting the Play button on the video player.
Hey, whatever, at least the art direction was cool in that game.
I gave mine a tiny one, I figure all the crazy, over the top violent things he does in the game is just overcompensating.
if you dont like it then go to another site.
No! The overexposure has been fantastic for a change. The whole Internet wets themselves over a Grand Theft Auto 5 trailer when we should be getting more of this about a game THAT COMES OUT NEXT WEEK!