SAINTS ROW: THE THIRD Professor Genki's Hyper Ordinary Pre-Order Promotion Announced

2011 is sequeltastic: with follow-ups to Arkham Asylum, Battlefield, Elder Scrolls, Resistance, Gears of War, Uncharted and Modern Warfare all hitting at the end of Q3 and the start of Q4 life is good in the world of extended franchise gaming. And in among those releases, Saints Row: The Third will explode across multiple platforms in November. As with all major releases, the game comes with a pre-order special offer, and we now have details thanks to THQ of what that promotion means to anyone who takes up the offer. Pre-order Saints Row: The Third and you will receive a Professor Genki's Hyper Ordinary Pre-Order Pack free with the game. The set, based on the "hit game show" that forms an integral, and ever so slightly unhinged part of the wider Saints Row universe will include the following: Professor Genki's Super Ballistic Man-a-pult:Cruise Steelport in style with this vacuum-action human-cannonball truck. Suck up pedestrians and use them as live ammunition against the forces of evil, and everyone else.Professor Genki's "Octopuss" Cannon:Fire baby octopi onto your enemies' heads! Watch as the octopi massage their scalps and your enemies fight for you! Enemies can be friends too!Professor Genki's Leisure Stunt Suit:The ultimate in comfort and tight-fitting apparel, the Genki Leisure Stunt Suit is perfect for skydiving over Steelport or to wear while ejecting from high-flying fighter jets. Free Genki mask included! Free stuff! Sorry - free, obviously mental stuff. Imagine if for one minute you thought these items weren't exclusive game add-ons, and were in fact going to be released as real-life items. That's exactly where I was for about thirty incredible seconds there... Anyway, for anyone unfamiliar with the distinctive charms of Professor Genki's Super Ethical Reality Climax, here's the low-down:

Professor Genki's Super Ethical Reality Climax is the hit game show that has taken the world of Saints Row: The Third by storm. Shown in 31 countries and localized in 13 languages, it's cute, it's crazy... and above all else it's, MURDER TIME, FUN TIME. Filmed in front of a live studio audience, the Professor Genki's Super Ethical Reality Climax takes contestants and puts them in friendly games of life and death, where success means fabulous prizes and continued life, and failure leads to other less desirable outcomes. Popular Genki Games include Baby or Cobra, Monkey Money Grab, and Professor Genki's Super Sparkle Lab in which one Steelport resident gets to fight through Genki's booby-trapped laboratory, shooting targets for points and humans just for fun. But look out! Shooting the helpless panda makes everyone sad.

Murder time, fun time!