'Grand Theft Auto V' generates $800 million in first-day sales

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"Grand Theft Auto V," the latest installment in Rockstar Games' hit video game series, reaped an eye-popping $800 million in worldwide retail sales on its first day of release Tuesday.

"All of us at Take-Two are thrilled with the initial response to 'Grand Theft Auto V,'" said Strauss Zelnick, chairman and chief executive of Take-Two, parent company of Rockstar Games. Some media analysts projected that "Grand Theft Auto V" would cross the $1-billion retail sales threshold soon, selling roughly 18 million copies of the game.

"Grand Theft Auto V" is set in modern day Southern California, where players can explore the fictional city of Los Santos, as well as the countryside of Blaine County, plan and execute heists, and engage in a range of activities, from golf to arms trafficking.

The Guardian reports that teachers in Britain criticized the game for a brutal interrogation scene, in which one character torture another by choosing among coercion methods that include pulling out the victim's teeth, waterboarding and electrocution.

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1. dang thats a lot of moolah

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2. Not to mention its a really really Violent game