UK game chart: February 26 - March 3

By Laura Jenner, GameSpot UKPosted Mar 6, 2007 3:55 am PT

Square Enix celebrates another week at the top with Final Fantasy XII; Sonic returns to the top five.

Final Fantasy XII, the PlayStation 2-exclusive title from Square Enix, has held onto the top slot in the UK all-formats game chart for a second week. The only time a Final Fantasy game has been number one for a longer period was Final Fantasy IX for the PlayStation, which kept the top position for three weeks.

The success of Final Fantasy has kept Microsoft's Crackdown at number two for another week--the latest expansion in Electronic Arts' massively successful Sim series, The Sims 2 Seasons, arrived in the chart at number three.

The all-formats top 10 featured six platform-exclusive games last week, with Sonic and the Secret Rings for the Wii making its debut at five. Nintendo DS exclusives Dr. Kawashima's Brain Training (Brain Age in the US) moved up three places to take it back into the top 10 at number eight, and New Super Mario Bros. held on to 10th place.

The remaining titles in the top 10 all lost places--FIFA 07 went down from three to four, Pro Evolution Soccer 6 slipped from four to six, Need for Speed Carbon lost two places at seven, and The Sims 2 dropped from eight to nine.

There was only one new entry in the wider top 40--following the release of the movie, Take 2's Ghost Rider arrived at 24. A number of DS titles reentered the chart and helped to make Nintendo the most-represented publisher within the top 40--overall, games by Japanese publishers made up half the titles in the chart.

This week sees the release of Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2 for the Xbox 360, along with another sequel in the shape of Mario vs. Donkey Kong 2: March of the Minis. Murder-mystery fans will also have a chance to sharpen their skills with the release of CSI: 3 Dimensions of Murder and Agatha Christie: Murder on the Orient Express, both for the PC.

56 Comments

  • TTDog

    Posted Mar 7, 2007 4:10 pm PT

    "Seabra:
    Lol TTdog lot's of games sell cos of their music from Rez to singstar"

    Very brave to select two music based games (I'm suprised you neglected Guitar Hero) and what with Rez being only 4 or 5 years old, show me someone who bought a mainstream title on music alone and I'll show you a retard or you can just look in the mirror.

    If you think people buy games for music then I'll ask you 1 question... what colour is the sky on your planet?

  • interpolred

    Posted Mar 7, 2007 1:27 pm PT

    Interesting!

  • GTCzeero

    Posted Mar 7, 2007 11:48 am PT

    Well done to FFXII, that game deserves the top spot, and is so far game of the year in my mind, but it's a shame that Okami isn't in there, 12 and Okami shouldn't have been released so close to each other, they're dividing my attention.

  • Tenjikuronin

    Posted Mar 7, 2007 11:45 am PT

    Its good to see Sonic back on the top charts.....

  • LosDaddie

    Posted Mar 7, 2007 5:48 am PT

    Another great showing for the Wii60!! Crackdown is a fun game.

    Go, Wii60!!

  • Bourbons3

    Posted Mar 7, 2007 4:29 am PT

    This expansion pack seems to be selling well like all of the Sims 2 expansions.

  • Raiko101

    Posted Mar 7, 2007 3:45 am PT

    Where can I get hold of the top 40 chart? I'm sure ELSPA only shows the top 10...

  • Seabra

    Posted Mar 7, 2007 2:35 am PT

    Lol TTdog lot's of games sell cos of their music from Rez to singstar.

  • Dante565

    Posted Mar 6, 2007 7:00 pm PT

    Yea im tired of the Sims 2 all the time lol. Nice job for them keeping FFXII on top its a great game. And I just realized I forgot about gow2. I feel dumb, but that should be on the list.

  • RaiKageRyu

    Posted Mar 6, 2007 6:49 pm PT

    FFXII's reign continues.

  • CraigB1234

    Posted Mar 6, 2007 5:44 pm PT

    I'm going to use my powers of prediction to say next week GTA:VCS will be back in the charts

  • sciss0rz

    Posted Mar 6, 2007 4:29 pm PT

    Sims 2.....sad

  • ajy2

    Posted Mar 6, 2007 2:32 pm PT

    Nothing stops Mario Bros.

    Super Mario Galaxy is going to sell a boat load.

  • Pete5506

    Posted Mar 6, 2007 1:13 pm PT

    wow nothing up there that I like but fifa 07

  • trophylocoste

    Posted Mar 6, 2007 11:42 am PT

    Yup is selling good but wait until gow2 on sunday comes out.

  • lzorro

    Posted Mar 6, 2007 11:42 am PT

    The Sonic Wii game has performed better than the PSP sonic game and 360 version which if I recall correctly failed to make it into the top 40. Revival? Maybe............

  • ragrdoll21

    Posted Mar 6, 2007 11:27 am PT

    Damn..FFXII is selling like hot cakes!

  • onlineps2player

    Posted Mar 6, 2007 10:58 am PT

    PS2 is still up there...

  • bossjimbob

    Posted Mar 6, 2007 10:56 am PT

    @ Thorpe89

    I totally agree. Crackdown rocks.

  • Thorpe89 Site moderator

    Posted Mar 6, 2007 10:41 am PT

    Go Crackdown! Loving that game and will continue to do so.

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