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Rockstar Social Club revealed, set to coincide with GTA IV's release
Grim03.27.08 - 2:47 PM 24 comments

Rockstar Social Club revealed, set to coincide with GTA IV's release screenshot

As most of you already know, Grand Theft Auto IV will be released on April 29. Although its launch will undoubtedly be huge in and of itself, Rockstar Games is going even further by unleashing a new Web site called the Rockstar Social Club on the very same day.

In addition to having leaderboards that follow your various in-game statistics, performance-based competitions and awards will also appear on the site. You'll be able to register using your gamertag or PSN ID as early as April 15, so that way we don't all sign up on GTA IV's release day and bring down the servers.

Specific details on some of the different challenges we'll see on the Rockstar Social Club can be found after the break.

GTA IV, the first game featured on the Rockstar Social Club, has
exciting features beyond multiplayer leaderboards, including:

* LCPD Police Blotter -- A virtual map and tracker of single-player
criminal activity logged in Liberty City from the aggregated data of
millions of connected players - showing the most dangerous areas of
town, most commonly used weapons and more.

* The Story Gang -- This special single-player leaderboard recognizes
players who complete Niko Bellic's main story arc of Grand Theft Auto IV
- The leaderboard ranks players according to the total amount of playing
time it's taken to complete the story, as well as a historical rank by
who has completed it first.  Members of this club will receive special
online widgets and merit badges marking all of their in-game
accomplishments.

* The 100% Club -- Watch to see who will be the first to complete 100%
of the game. The first ten people to be identified on the Social Club as
reaching 100% will be sent an ultra-rare commemorative 'key to the city'
to mark their accomplishment.  In the future, the 100% Club will then
carry a historical leaderboard showing rankings of who has completed
100% of a game in the shortest span of playing hours.

* The Hall of Fame -- This area will dynamically recognize those
singularly elite players who have reached the top of the hill on various
statistical leaderboards, and will also contain a personal awards
display of special in-game landmarks and successes in Social Club
competitions.

* The Liberty City Marathon -- A ranking of special physical milestones
achieved in the game - from the amount of miles walked, driven, or swam
- to the number of bullets fired and stunt-jumps jumped.  There will be
additional special marathon-based competitions in the future from this
area as well.

The Rockstar Social Club doesn't stop there. With special competitions,
leaderboards and challenges rolling out regularly in the weeks and
months following the game's release, this is just the beginning of an
on-going Liberty City experience and is a small taste of what's to come
from Rockstar Games for GTAIV and beyond...


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MrSadistic's Avatar
MrSadistic at 03/27/2008 14:43

Sounds spiffy. I, for one, cannot wait for this game to come out.
binny101's Avatar
binny101 at 03/27/2008 14:45

I'm going to buy it, then put it inside of my 360 game machine, and then play the video game that erupts into my soul!
Surf314's Avatar
Surf314 at 03/27/2008 14:45

I am so completely uninterested in this game.
Cheeburga's Avatar
Cheeburga at 03/27/2008 14:54

Holy shit this is awesome.
Hoygeit's Avatar
Hoygeit at 03/27/2008 15:03

I think that's a really nice addition.
mistic's Avatar
mistic at 03/27/2008 15:05

sounds great! I'm pretty curious about that LCPD Police Blotter, that sounds really fun!

I love stats and this is just an accumulation of stats to the max :-)
Justice's Avatar
Justice at 03/27/2008 15:05

Great addition!
Polish Hill's Avatar
Polish Hill at 03/27/2008 15:11

Wow way to fuel people who are already addicted to a game not already out. I feel bad for the hordes that will race to get on top of those boards and don't make it, that would not be fun.
brainderailment's Avatar
brainderailment at 03/27/2008 15:14

I would never try to race to 100% completion of a game that I enjoy. That would be like putting a plate full of steak in front of me and just scarfing it down as fast as possible.
king3vbo's Avatar
king3vbo at 03/27/2008 15:25

Spiffy is right
Unicorn's Avatar
Unicorn at 03/27/2008 15:26

asians win. leaderboards over.


unless people hack the game/stats first.
TrailerParkJesus's Avatar
TrailerParkJesus at 03/27/2008 15:36

this reminded me of buena vista social club, whatever that is

and this idea seems novel, but I don't know about that race to 100%
Tubatic's Avatar
Tubatic at 03/27/2008 15:55

@TPJ yeah, since that'll probably cause a lot of people to barrel through the game and completely gloss over the story elements and the quality of the game
jpitner's Avatar
jpitner at 03/27/2008 16:00

Obviously the keys will go to 8 ps3 players and 2 360 players, given the inevitable RRoD for the rest of the 360 players trying to play nonstop to get a key ;)
B-Radicate's Avatar
B-Radicate at 03/27/2008 16:24

This seems really cool. I only have one issue... will "100%" be like GTA3 and Vice City 100% where you actually had to do EVERYTHING that was offered, or will it be like San Andreas 100% where you only actually had to complete a certain portion of what was available to have the game say you beat it 100%?

'Cause there's a big difference there. And as a proud completionist of both GTA3 AND Vice City... I needa know how much I hafta do to get that key.

For the record, San Andreas actually bored me before I even attempted a 100% run. It was the series low point in my eyes.
Technophile's Avatar
Technophile at 03/27/2008 16:26

Goddammit thats great.
Samit Sarkar's Avatar
Samit Sarkar at 03/27/2008 16:47

What brainderailment said. I’m going to take my sweet time with this game.

Also, all this stuff sounds pretty damn cool, especially that LCPD Police Blotter. But I don’t care as much for the leaderboards, since I won’t be anywhere near the top on any of them.
dronkmunk's Avatar
dronkmunk at 03/27/2008 18:18

Thanks a lot Rockstar. Now I HAVE to get a key..
Necros's Avatar
Necros at 03/27/2008 20:36

I want the key!
chaos591's Avatar
chaos591 at 03/28/2008 00:08

Never really into Stats Like who killed the most or most deaths but who achieved achievements the fastest sounds fun and life-consuming. This "Key" will unlock my death!
luvmysegadc's Avatar
luvmysegadc at 03/28/2008 20:06

This forces me to state something that I hate saying:

OMG! OMG! OMG! OMG! OMG! OMG! OMG! OMG! OMG! OMG! OMG! OMG! OMG!
xe-cute's Avatar
xe-cute at 03/28/2008 23:21

I'd really like to take my time on my 1st run through and enjoy the experience in full.


I hope you can re-start the game from scratch at a later stage to do a specific speed run-through.

Or have more than one saved profile not reliant on gamertag.
HarassmentPanda's Avatar
HarassmentPanda at 04/01/2008 23:50

There seem to be a lot of cool features coming out for this game, but I'm still not sold. I'm just so bored with GTA.

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