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UK game charts: August 20-26

By Phil Elliott, GameSpot UKPosted Aug 30, 2006 5:39 am PT

Summer stagnation continues with no change in the top six; slow start for Ninety-Nine Nights.

There was very little change in the UK all-formats release chart last week, with the top six staying exactly as they were. That means that Cars remains top of the pile, Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories is second, and New Super Mario Bros. is third for the fifth consecutive week.

This lack of activity points to a generally slow summer in terms of high-profile title releases, although this should change in the coming weeks as new games creep onto the shelves--Saints Row (Xbox 360), Gangs of London (PlayStation Portable), and Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Vegas (Xbox, PlayStation 2) are all out this week.

The Sims 2, Pro Evolution Soccer 5, and Dr. Kawashima's Brain Training stay in fourth, fifth, and sixth respectively, while Animal Crossing: Wild World and Star Wars: Battlefront II both move up two places to seventh and ninth.

New releases Ninety-Nine Nights and Reservoir Dogs made relatively slow starts, coming in at number eight and number 14, with the next highest new entry being Madden NFL 07 at number 37. Need for Speed Most Wanted rounded off the top 10, having dropped three places from the previous week.

77 Comments

  • quain-chi

    Posted Sep 3, 2006 2:12 pm PT

    The only reason cars is number 1 is that its multi format and availble on everything, hell i wouldnt have been suprised if it was on the snes too. GTA:LS is more down to the ps2 than the psp, for weeks the psp version was out of the top ten till the ps2 version came along and knocked it to the top.

  • Retro_Guru

    Posted Sep 3, 2006 8:55 am PT

    It still amazes me (and raises my mood) at how well the DS is still doing. Bring on Lego Star Wars!

  • Kholdstare_fire

    Posted Sep 2, 2006 11:41 am PT

    Wow, wtf @ UK

  • lgoldberg

    Posted Sep 2, 2006 10:40 am PT

    There's a lot of PS2 games on the list.

  • cantlooseu

    Posted Sep 2, 2006 9:37 am PT

    yuck...why do peope here have some **** taste...

  • Miami_4_Ever

    Posted Sep 2, 2006 7:37 am PT

    liberty city stories has been in the charts for ages but it has deserved its place thoroughly.

  • Humorguy_basic

    Posted Sep 1, 2006 9:02 pm PT

    It's not just about no games, it's about no good games, and pc games are not selling because of just FPS games, and Fantasy rpgs only. Just two genres to support a whole market - imagine consoles doing that - just platform and fighting games, say. Wouldn't you agree that would hurt console game sales?!

  • Fyernix

    Posted Sep 1, 2006 12:09 pm PT

    Just wait til Kingdom Hearts 2, Disgaea 2 and FFXII get released here! guranteed to be on top for weeks!

  • -thr33

    Posted Sep 1, 2006 10:26 am PT

    I agree With Regnier and pete on this.

  • Lord_Regnier

    Posted Sep 1, 2006 9:22 am PT

    just wait for Lego star Wars 2, Dead Rising, Enchanted Arms etc then the chart will look good and not make me feel ashamed.

  • peter_l1993

    Posted Sep 1, 2006 8:45 am PT

    why do people buy film merchendise??????CARS???????

  • peter_l1993

    Posted Sep 1, 2006 8:43 am PT

    cars??? CARS!!!!!????? WTF????????

  • bingbashbosh

    Posted Sep 1, 2006 5:34 am PT

    I know!
    That is a way better game than cars will ever be....

  • tjharwin

    Posted Sep 1, 2006 5:11 am PT

    Cars still sucks, althought I loved the film. Why isnt NSMB 1st???

  • Thorpe89 Site moderator

    Posted Sep 1, 2006 4:38 am PT

    Cars is first because of the kids and probably low price it is in some stores.

  • DS-man

    Posted Sep 1, 2006 4:32 am PT

    im suprise Cars is first, it looks lame

  • DefChaz

    Posted Sep 1, 2006 3:32 am PT

    Go Sims!!! Even two years after its release!

    Cars will stay in the charts until the next animated Disney film comes out...or when they stop doing the characters in Happy Meals. Its only been in the chart for 2 months to be fair. Kudos to all the games who've lasted more than a year!

  • nsoufiani

    Posted Sep 1, 2006 2:31 am PT

    and another thing, there are too many people here in the UK that will buy anything thats related to the movie. Im doing my part and staying away from tehm games so they dont bring garbage like that but unfortunatly not many others do...for example, i prevented my friend from getting fifa street 2 for the DS because its rubbish! he desperatly wanted it but i kept on saying no, no, no and showed him gamespots review and he still wanted it. I kept reassuring him that its garbage until he finally gave up.

  • nsoufiani

    Posted Sep 1, 2006 2:24 am PT

    iv always been ashamed to live in casual land (UK). Even if a good game gets released, these casuals will go for their football crap any day of the week. No matter how much you try and persuade them, they wont listen

  • king-akt

    Posted Sep 1, 2006 2:01 am PT

    why is cars still there? im ashamed to live in the uk now.

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