Mercs 2 conquers UK chart

By Luke Anderson, GameSpot UKPosted Sep 9, 2008 5:10 am PT

EA's open-world shooter blasts into the charts at first place; Too Human slips out of top 10 after one week.

Mercenaries 2 proves it likes a challenge. Despite receiving mixed reviews from critics, the open-world action game has debuted at the top of this week's UK sales chart. EA's latest destructive offering beat out last week's numero uno, Tiger Woods PGA Tour 09, and sim-everything Spore, which find themselves in second and third places respectively. It's not all bad news for Will Wright's evolutionary epic, though; according to Chart-Track, Spore accounted for 53 percent of full-price PC games sales last week.

Following EA's top-three hat-trick is the usual Nintendo fare including Wii Fit, Carnival Games, Mario Kart Wii, Wii Play, Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games, and Big Beach Sports, with WALL-E rounding off the top 10.

After spending one week in the top 10 at eighth, Too Human has dropped out of the top 10, to 16th. Other new entrants that have failed to make much of an impression on the sales records to date include Viva Pinata: Trouble in Paradise, which debuted at 23, and Stalker: Clear Sky which entered the chart at 25.

There'll be new competition this week from the likes of Crysis Warhead, Warhammer: Battle March for Xbox 360, and a price-slashed Rock Band finally competing across multiple platforms.

77 Comments

  • benny32

    Posted Sep 14, 2008 7:02 pm PT

    itll just be cos its mentioned in the message, i got mercs 2 other day, despite having some frankly hilarious balance issues and having to worst designed motor bikes ive ever riddden in game its a funny and entertaining game to play. tho tad short

  • syneris

    Posted Sep 13, 2008 7:25 am PT

    This has nothing to do with spore or mario kart wii. Why does gamespot insist on spamming me with updates unrelated to the game it's posted for?

  • Stabby

    Posted Sep 11, 2008 1:51 pm PT

    For crying out loud GameSpot! "Mixed reviews from CRITICS"? You mean you right? It has a 75% at Game Rankings, thats roughly considered generally favourable... I haven't played Mercs 2 but it doesn't matter if it deserved 5 or not, its that GS seems to think they really do know all. If they said CRITIC instead of CRITICS on the other hand...

  • Lukaex

    Posted Sep 11, 2008 12:53 pm PT

    Oh i get it by "Mixed Reviews" they mean the retard who reviewed it on gamespot.

  • ColdGen

    Posted Sep 10, 2008 11:37 pm PT

    Can't be as shabby as the GS review proposes than can it?

  • soulja_gam3r

    Posted Sep 10, 2008 5:51 pm PT

    now i know to wait till too human gets cheaper!

  • kbaily

    Posted Sep 10, 2008 3:55 pm PT

    It's just a shame that people shell out money for any crappy action game with guns instead of buying truly unique and original games.

  • thekey

    Posted Sep 10, 2008 9:53 am PT

    No. What the problem(The fact of the matter)is, that this whole Videogame generation has changed.The generation is way different than the hardcore Genesis vs Super nes generation. We are living in a world of games where they look better, sound better, and have a much larger budget. But when it all comes down to it, they don't PLAY better. In my opinion Mercs 2 sux,it's bland and shallow just like the first one, and so does the Wii and 90% of it's games. Thats just my opinion. How ever it goes to show that this is a different generation indeed. Who would have ever thought that the Wii would be #1!?! Who would have thought that a $600 console would sell 14 million units world wide!?! Who would have ever though the MS would have several games that sell over a million copies and yet have so many hardware issues!?! It's funny because Nintendo, and Sony are in oposite positions(1 and 3), and MS is in the same position.(2) LOL!!!! This is indeed a DIFERENT generation of gamers...

  • deadeye75

    Posted Sep 10, 2008 6:40 am PT

    bassbomber20, did you even played mercs 2? That game is crazy fun, Gamespot's review was terrible. The glitches, though numerous, are not game breaking in any way. Some even enhance the fun with the total randomness.

  • karloss99

    Posted Sep 10, 2008 6:01 am PT

    Well Spore has not been out for one but 3 days in UK, as Europe release was at 5th. So in 3 days, yes that is a nice result.

  • jknight5422

    Posted Sep 10, 2008 5:48 am PT

    Viva Pinata had higher review scores than Mercs & it only made it to #23. I guess consumers aren't following the review scores.

  • houtx1836

    Posted Sep 10, 2008 5:41 am PT

    It amazing the games people buy - especially when a controller is included

  • bassbomber20 posted Sep 10, 2008 3:37 am PT (does not meet display criteria. sign in to show)

    bassbomber20

    Posted Sep 10, 2008 3:37 am PT (hide)

    Wow, thanks for the good laugh, I needed that this morining! "Merc 2's in the #1 spot"... A game that is 5/10 and it's #1... what does that say about our quality standards these days....

  • delcidanddarth

    Posted Sep 10, 2008 2:57 am PT

    Sorry to burst your bubble, gamespot, but Mercs 2 was actually a lot of fun. Maybe you wanted the international version of GTA, but blowing up buildings and cities is fun on its own.

  • ukillwegrill

    Posted Sep 9, 2008 11:58 pm PT

    EA and Nintendo, own that chart.

  • Darkreaper_1 posted Sep 9, 2008 11:28 pm PT (does not meet display criteria. sign in to show)

    Darkreaper_1

    Posted Sep 9, 2008 11:28 pm PT (hide)

    Wow! I can't believe this chart. So many crap games. I think the only decent one of there is Mario Kart Wii!

  • warlockkkk

    Posted Sep 9, 2008 11:07 pm PT

    Wow nice chart wheres the real games........oh sad face

  • warlockkkk

    Posted Sep 9, 2008 11:06 pm PT

    !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • Pete5506

    Posted Sep 9, 2008 7:25 pm PT

    Mercs 2 was a alright game

  • smithers43

    Posted Sep 9, 2008 4:45 pm PT

    mercs 2 is not that good it LOOKED that good but it was only fun to destroy stuff the AI was bad and just not that fun SPORE will soon be #1 it was only out for 1 day and still reached the #3 slot

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