UK Game Charts: November 12-18

By Emma Boyes, GameSpot UKPosted Nov 21, 2006 11:57 am PT

Gears of War raids the top spot, becoming the fastest-selling Xbox 360 game ever.

This week Gears of War ousted Halo 2 as both the top title on Xbox Live and the fastest-selling Microsoft game ever in the UK. It's now not only the third fastest-selling game of 2006 (behind Pro Evolution Soccer 6 and FIFA 07)--but also the week's top seller, edging aside Need for Speed Carbon on the UK all-formats chart. It easily beat out the week's other two new entries--Activision's Tony Hawk's Project 8 (18th place) and Final Fantasy VII: Dirge of Cerberus (28th).

The highest climber of the week is THQ's Bratz: Forever Diamondz, which after the release of a Nintendo DS version, climbs 28 places to nine. The title taking the biggest tumble of the week is Vivendi's F.E.A.R., freefalling 18 spots to 38.

It was a good week for Nintendo, with all four DS-only titles in the top 20 enjoying strong sales. Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Blue Rescue is up two spaces to 12, the irrepressible Dr. Kawashima's Brain Training is up three spaces to 14, Nintendogs: Dalmatian and Friends is up four to 17, and New Super Mario Brothers is up two to 20.

Next week sees the release of controversial horror game Rule of Rose, which the mayor of Rome is trying to ban, as well as Guitar Hero II, both for the PlayStation 2. Other releases set for Friday include multiplatform game Eragon, based on the Twentieth Century Fox film, World War II shooter Call of Duty 3 (Xbox, Xbox 360, PS2), Sonic the Hedgehog (Xbox 360), Cricket 07 (PS2, PC), Justice League Heroes (PS2, Xbox, DS), and the expansions Warhammer: Mark of Chaos (PC) and Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion - Knights of the Nine (PC, Xbox 360).

60 Comments

  • _Sam_

    Posted Nov 26, 2006 1:56 pm PT

    I had a feeling that GOW would be #1

  • bobreturns

    Posted Nov 25, 2006 3:44 am PT

    F U _screamsoftly_ ppl buy games for there little kids you know games are for everyone

  • _screamsoftly_

    Posted Nov 24, 2006 8:52 pm PT

    Bratz: Forever Diamondz?

    Dirty Europeans

  • RaiKageRyu

    Posted Nov 24, 2006 1:12 pm PT

    Well, it's about time a next-gen title ousted Halo 2.

  • StarFoxCOM

    Posted Nov 23, 2006 7:38 pm PT

    LOL bratz

  • TorugotoShinsan

    Posted Nov 23, 2006 6:18 pm PT

    The UK has a HUGE market of casual gamers and so games that appeal to casuals will do a hell of a lot bette rthan good games. Look at that chart, I can't name a single game on it that isn't targeted at a casual audience. Shame Nintendo only go for niche markets with thier consoles. The DS appealed to casuals and sold well here yet they haven't even considered bringing out a Wii game that appeals to casuals that isnt' called Wii Sports.

  • GsR_lives

    Posted Nov 23, 2006 8:32 am PT

    The Europeans are known for their love of sports games & ecletic fare (hence: Bratz: DF being on the list) while shunning console RPGs & niche games. I wonder if Xenosaga or .hack//G.U. will ever see a release there?

  • GrimBee

    Posted Nov 22, 2006 11:16 am PT

    WOAH! gta vice city stories is 10?! This surely cant happen! last year gta liberty city stories was at the top for a long time...
    Must be alot more 360 owners now.. two 360 games are on the chart... and alot of the ps2 games there are on the 360 aswell... infact ALL of the ps2 games are on the 360...

    Its great that gears of war get the number 1 spot. Games of this genre don't typically get the #1 spot very often... I wonder whats going to get the christmas #1?

    Guys, what do you think the Christmas #1 game will be? I have a guess that it's going to be Gears OF war still.. with some Wii games popping in to say hello at number 2 (possibly zelda).

  • faizali86

    Posted Nov 22, 2006 9:00 am PT

    lol @ bratz!

  • Irve

    Posted Nov 22, 2006 5:46 am PT

    Zelda , the UK doesn't like nintendo games .. no matter how good they are .. the launch of the Wii will put Zelda up there for a week but after that the UK public will go "oh that's a naff kids game" and get right on back to buying their 4th version of Need for speed in as many years to sit on a shelf next to their 5 versions of fifa. If the gamecube version of Zelda actually comes out over here it's going to be my one and only crimbo game !

  • diablobasher

    Posted Nov 22, 2006 5:45 am PT

    Chavs buy all the PsP crud here, so yeah, it's not surprising to see that sorta thing in the charts here, in fact, im always seeing freaking PsP top ten charts in stores, where in the same stores the DS is a freakin side attraction barely habiting it's own shelf. Rediculous.

  • Irve

    Posted Nov 22, 2006 5:42 am PT

    Well GoW is top for a week at least .. hopefully for 2 weeks till NFS carbon comes back to number 1 for the next 10 weeks !! I would be interested to see how well the 360 version is selling compared to the PS2 ... the same goes for smack down .. there are no PS2 exclusives in the top ten. I would like to see people abandoning their rust PS2's for 360's and Wii If only gamespot would sort out their links for the UK top ten so we didn't have lots of posts saying PS2 roolz without knowing that these are multiformat charts where all sales for a title combine irrespective of format.

  • flamingskullz

    Posted Nov 22, 2006 2:40 am PT

    LE-FISH
    Just you wait till Wii is launched, Zelda TP will be no.1 for quite some time ^-^ you obviously dont know the UK mate. It wont reach 1. And if it did, it wont be for long.

  • Pastehunter

    Posted Nov 22, 2006 1:33 am PT

    Wow , GTA : VCS is still holding Hurray for the PSP

  • anamnawshad

    Posted Nov 22, 2006 1:32 am PT

    Great job Epic & MS !

  • daqua_99

    Posted Nov 21, 2006 10:04 pm PT

    When the Wii will be released, there will be a large move imo ...

  • helluvagood

    Posted Nov 21, 2006 7:31 pm PT

    Interesting indeed

  • helluvagood

    Posted Nov 21, 2006 7:31 pm PT

    Interesting indeed

  • taino1128

    Posted Nov 21, 2006 6:38 pm PT

    im surprised that the current gen need for speed carbon is selling better

  • wenbin09

    Posted Nov 21, 2006 6:19 pm PT

    sweet!

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