"What I like to do is get in the car and drive around and do drive-by shootings. You can haul someone out of their car and beat on them and steal their money and their car. It's kind of amusing that you have that ability."

"The drive-by shootings of innocent pedestrians are always fun. It really does bring out the quote-unquote evil in you."

... Fans are hardly a collection of weirdos and social misfits. An awful lot are professionals with successful careers, wives or girlfriends and, in many cases, children. And to hear a lot of them tell it, well, Grand Theft Auto 3 is just too much fun.

The game's allure comes down to "just going on killing sprees."

... Retail sales of video games totaled $9.4B last year, a 42 percent increase over the $6.6B in sales in 2000, and even more than Hollywood took in at the box office last year.