Dead Island Riptide is a blast. Pure zombie mayhem at its finest. Don't listen to the reviews if you liked the first one.
UK Chart: Dead Island: Riptide claims second week at the top
By
Martin Gaston, News Editor
DC Comics fighter Injustice stays second, while Star Trek falls to 10th.
Deep Silver's zombie-mulching sequel Dead Island: Riptide has secured a second week at the top of the UK charts.
Injustice: Gods Among Us spent a second week at number two, followed by Tomb Raider in third, FIFA 13 in fourth, and Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen in fifth.
Call of Duty: Black Ops II climbed back up to sixth, BioShock Infinite seventh, LEGO City Undercover: The Chase Begins in eighth, and Luigi's Mansion 2 in ninth.
Movie tie-in Star Trek, which debuted last week in fourth, dropped to tenth place.
The only new entry in the charts this week was PlayStation Vita RPG Soul Sacrifice, which debuted at 26.
The Top 20 UK chart for the week ending May 4:
1. Dead Island: Riptide
2. Injustice: Gods Among Us
3. Tomb Raider
4. FIFA 13
5. Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen
6. Call of Duty: Black Ops II
7. BioShock Infinite
8. LEGO City Undercover: The Chase Begins
9. Luigi's Mansion 2
10. Star Trek
11. Assassin's Creed III
12. Far Cry 3
13. Defiance
14. The Elder Scrolls V: Skryim
15. LEGO Batman 2: DC Super Heroes
16. God of War: Ascension
17. Need for Speed: Most Wanted
18. Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed
19. Grand Theft Auto: Episodes From Liberty City
20. Grand Theft Auto IV
By
Martin Gaston, News Editor
Martin Gaston has absolutely never at all had the song from Beauty and the Beast sung to him at any point during his life, ever.
78 comments
Just more proof that GameSpot is full of shit. With Riptide getting a rating of 4, they're trying to tell us that it's the worst game of the year? Seriously GameSpot get a grip, your reviews and opinions are fine but your rating system is beginning to be completely bias. (I could of believed a 6 or 7, but now I won't trust any of the ratings on here)
Good to see Injustice in second. I don't really care for fighting games, but that game is really good. Cannot get enough of it.
@grnsuperman4 Like I said 100 times, you don't pay - you get around a rating of around 4.
This is why GameSpot will go down the crapper soon.
It's interesting how quality doesn't always equate with sales and vice versa. Dead Island was an interesting new IP but it would seem that the developers have become a bit lazy.
It's an awesome game and perfect to play co-op. It's not too late to change your 4.0 rating, what were you thinking giving it 4.0?
@Sefrix Dead Island Riptide is a very solid game. It's cheesy and fun. If you weren't a fan of the original, steer clear of this one.
@Sefrix That's why you market your game to the masses for The Ultimate Profit Margin. Bonus if the game didn't require that much work or Q&A.
1 Like people will support the absolute bottom rung of the industry because it lets them shoot shit and kill zombies. So predictable. So Lame.
1 Like holly shitt gta iv steel in the top 10, when gta v release it will be on the top for 10 years!!!!!!
GTA4 wasn't in the last top 20 on the last list. Its just popped its head back into this one. lol
2 Like I got the game for $22 and thought they fixed bugs from the first game... They did not. It still has all the bugs from the first.
I only played about 2 hours of the game and stopped. Can't stand all the bugs. I'll have to wait many months before some of them are fixed.
So if you think this game is an improvement over the last... It's not.
Stay away!
5 Like People will buy garbage.. and so long as gamers keep Dead Island series as their #1 bestseller, Techland will continue to push out garbage out of their studios.
@Elann2008 Enjoyed their first CALL OF JUAREZ series (not The Cartel) much more. Hope GUNSLINGER does well in a few weeks. Techland rivals Rockstar with Old West storytelling. Would much rather see them put more energy into the Wild West over Zombies on an island. Oh well, that's just me...
@Elann2008 Dead Island "isn't" garbage
the multiplayer is amazing, try it yourself
but if you were talking about the graphic, yes it is not that good
im only on the tanker still but im enjoying dead island -- i love how you never know what's gonna happen next & the open world environment should be applauded
@Elann2008 yes..that's what everything is though..everything is a go here and do this..in every game, ever though to be fair.
gta
infamous
fallout
borderlands
dead island
the amazing spider-man
batman: arkham city
red dead redemption
shenmue
anything remotely "open-world" is really just a never-ending barrage of point a-c episodes..even our so called "reality"
@LoganWesker true, but its how its implemented. They dont even try they jus chuck all the "fetch" quests at u and its poorly done
2 Like @Dead Island ..... Completed this game.........realy enjoy it............I dont no why this game Low Rated
1 Like @chocolate1325 Because the co-op is fun, I completed 100% achievements and all. They didn't improve on the first one, but it was still fun. I only ran into a few bugs and had the game crash a couple times. Much less than Skyrim or Borderlands 2 which are rated much higher.
1 Like glad to see DD:DA in the list...but seriously dead island being first is another proof how mindless the population is.
@OuTLaWzGamer"Other people have a different opinion on a game i've never played, therefore they are mindless." Good logic. Ever think that maybe some people just had fun playing Dead Island?
Enjoying something does not make one mindless. I loved playing co-op with my friends in Dead Island. It was a blast and gave me a good opportunity to play with people I haven't played with in a while.
While I do feel it's a shame that they didn't fix the problems of the first game for the sequel, calling someone mindless for purchasing something they enjoy is unjustified. I wish as much as the next person that the games I loved sold more and games like Call of Duty didn't affect the mindset of the businessmen in the industry. However, I will not insult the people who play those games because they have different tastes than I do. The attitude of many people on this board is not right.
@OuTLaWzGamer considering the epidemic of horrid gaming journalism... mindless would be not buying the game because of a piss poor review like Gamespots. Thankfully, gamers knew what they wanted and what they were getting and it's showing.
Stop listening to the "professional" reviews... very little professional about them anymore.
@ArataWata I'm British and I can tell the difference.
Unfortunately I'm in the minority. :(
@ArataWata In the Swedish weekly charts, Battlefield 3 is still in the top ten (no. 7) for PC games and SimCity is number one both for PC and multiformat. Different tastes in different countries, but I seldom like that taste.
GTA IV creeping in! i will say one thing if R* don't release GTA V on the PS4 & 720 it will never sell as good as it predecessor! 2 years after its release it will stop selling where as IV has been selling for 5
Riptide is abysmal, only reason it's still on top is due to the lack of any big releases this week.
I'm curious to see how Metro does next week. The game looks great, but I don't have much faith that a barley advertised, single-player only game will sell decently.
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