Rockstar Games Social Club
Rockstar Games Social Club is a free online service provided by Rockstar Games for use with their latest generation of games. Rockstar Games Social Club was first announced on 27 March 2008,[1] with pre-registration beginning on 14 April 2008.[2] However, that date was moved to 17 April 2008.[3] The name is a reference to organized crime, which commonly uses the term "social club" to describe a meeting place or hideout.
Games
Features
Rockstar Games Social Club provides certain different features based on the type of game.
Grand Theft Auto IV
- LCPD Police Blotter - The Police Blotter collects data from all online users of GTA IV, and shows how much crime is committed in each area of the city. It also shows the most dangerous areas of Liberty City, what the most popular weapons are and further details about city's crime rate.
- The Story Gang - The Story Gang is a leader board showing list of users who have completed the story mode of the game. There are two parts to this: The first part shows the first 10 players to complete the story mode of the game; and the other one shows the quickest times that the story mode has been completed in. Members of the gang receive special online bonuses marking their achievements in the game.
- The 100% Club - The 100% club is similar to the story gang, but this time marks the achievements of gamers that have completed the game 100%. There are two leaderboards, one showing the first ten people to complete the game, and the other showing who has completed the game quickest. Eligible players who completed the game with 100% between 12:00 am 29 April 2008 and 11:59 pm 19 May EST were sent a 'key to the city' to mark their achievement.
- The Hall Of Fame - The Hall of Fame marks various records and statistical achievements completed by users within the game. It also contains a personal awards display of a gamers personal in-game achievements.
- The Liberty City Marathon - The Liberty City Marathon is a ranking of special physical milestones within the game. There are also competitions based on marathons for this area of the Social Club.
- ZiT Music Service - Players are able to tag songs heard on in-game radio stations by calling "ZIT-555-0100" with their in-game mobile phone. If the player's gamername is linked to their Social Club account, they will be able to then access a list of songs they have tagged via the Social Club website. Songs can then be purchased via iTunes.
- Multiplayer Leaderboards - On 28 May 2008, Rockstar launched the multiplayer section of Social Club. The section currently consists of a player's rank, their ranking compared to other players, their score, and the amount of games a player has won and lost.
- The Millionaires Club - Millionaire status is determined by totalling all of the money you've ever earned in single–player–mode from completing missions, winning races, doing vigilante side–jobs, and fortuitously picking up ‘dropped’ money in the street. Millionaires Club launched in 29 July 2008.
- Viral Infection - With the Viral Infection feature at the Rockstar Social Club, members can now see whether their in-game multiplayer character is currently infected, the number of total global infections and the number of infections in the last 24 hours. Digging deeper, Social Club members can also browse a colour-coded world map tracking the spread of the infection worldwide, including breakdown for all 50 US States. Infected players can set a zombie skin for themselves at the multiplayer section. This part was announced in 29 July 2008 and set off in 24 October 2008.
- Social Club TV - The PC version of Grand Theft Auto IV features a video editor where players can take, edit and upload footage of their gameplay to the Social Club TV site. Once a video has been uploaded to the site, other Social Club members can then rate, favourite and comment on the video. Currently, Social Club TV is exclusive to the PC version of Grand Theft Auto IV and it is not yet known if other Rockstar games will use this feature.
Midnight Club: Los Angeles
- Los Angeles Driving Test - Tracks certain stats of the player via their console gamer-name such as wheelie distance and consecutive wins and includes in-game rewards such as an Audi R8, Hydraulic/AirBags and TIS Modular Rims.
- Gallery - Displays pictures that the player has taken in-game.
- Hollywood Auto Garage - Lists all in-game vehicles based upon the most popular, the most wins, and the most driven.
- Multiplayer - Players are able to compare their stats and times with other players in every event.
- Player Profile - Displays various stats and features a customizable user title screen.
- Rate My Ride - Similar to the in-game aspect, players can see how their vehicle as been rated and have the ability to rate others online via pictures uploaded.
- Tournaments - This feature allows for players to sign up for time trial tournaments. Once signed up, the player can pull up the tournament menu from the game and participate. So far, Rockstar has given prizes to people with the best time.
- LAFM - Allows players to listen to and buy songs they have favorited in the game.
Rockstar has confirmed that there is one more Social Club feature in the works for the game.
Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars
- Player Stats - Allows people to view their game stats. The feature also allows for players to view their friend's stats.
- Mr Wong's Laundromat - An online web-browser minigame were players can earn money for use in Chinatown Wars by laundering money.
- Guardian Lions - As soon as players finish the main story line, two lion statues appear in different areas of the map. Once the player finds the statues, they can sync their game to Social Club and unlock two extra missions for "Xin".
- Rampage Tracker - This feature allows players to see where all the rampages are located and their stats for each rampage.
- Downloads - Features wallpapers, ringtones and papercraft models of stuff from the game.
- Fully Cocked - People who pre-ordered the game from either GameStop or Amazon received a code to unlock an extra bonus for use in the game. This feature allows for players to redeem their codes.
Beaterator
- Community - Allows users to find tracks created by the community. Once a user finds a track they like, they can mark it as a favourite, rate it and download it.
- Studio - Allows users to listen their songs, view their favourites, see who's following them, follow other users, check their download queue and set their songs to public.
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