GTA IV will track your stats online

With the likes of Bungie doing it to such great success with Halo 3, it seem Rockstar Games are jumping on the stat bandwagon with GTA IV, and has just announced the Rockstar Games Social Club. They describe it as “a new website that will extend your experience of Grand Theft Auto IV and all future Rockstar Games titles.” Apparently the site will be ready for registration on April 15th, and once that has happened you can mosey on over there with your Xbox Live gamertag or a PSN ID, enter it, and then the site will be all ready to churn out stats for you when once you finally get to play the game

Apparently site sites main focus will be to keep records of multiplayer matches, offering multiplayer leaderboards, labelling the city’s most dangerous areas and citing the most commonly used weapons. More so, Rockstar boast it will be using the “aggregated data of millions of connected players.” to catalogue “the amount of miles walked, driven, or swam — to the number of bullets fired and stunt-jumps jumped.” Single player data will also be given it own section, which is sure to be more in-depth that the normal GTA in-game stats screen of old.

The full list of details that will be on the site according to Rockstar is:

• 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.