UK top 40: Crysis 2 leads 3DS pack

By Robert Purchese Published 28 March, 2011

3DS launch titles fare well.

The UK all-formats chart is rocked by a raft of new arrivals this week, the best selling being EA's blockbuster shooter Crysis 2, which tops the list.

A chunky 57 per cent of Crysis 2 sales go to Xbox 360, with 29 per cent on PS3 and 14 per cent on PC (excluding digital sales).

Fellow newcomer LEGO Star Wars III: The Clone Wars is second.

Last week's leader Homefront falls to third.

3DS launch title Super Street Fighter IV finishes fourth.

The other 3DS newcomers making the top flight this week are Pilotwings Resort in sixth, The Sims: Medieval in eighth and Rayman 3D in ninth.

Super Monkey Ball 3D and Ridge Racer 3D just miss the top 10, placing 14th and 15th respectively.

Other 3DS launch titles making the top 40 are: Pro Evolution Soccer 2011 in 18th (multi-format), Nintendogs + Cats: Golden Retriever in 20th, Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Shadow Wars in 34th and Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell 3D in 39th.

How well the 3DS hardware sold we're yet to find out.

This Week Last Week Title Platform(s)
1 New entry Crysis 2 PC, PS3, Xbox 360
2 New entry LEGO Star Wars III: The Clone Wars 3DS, DS, PC, PS3, PSP, Wii, Xbox 360
3 1 Homefront PC, PS3, Xbox 360
4 New entry Super Street Fighter IV 3D Edition 3DS
5 3 Pokemon White DS
6 New entry Pilotwings Resort 3DS
7 5 Pokemon Black DS
8 New entry The Sims: Medieval PC
9 New entry Rayman 3D 3DS
10 8 FIFA 11 DS, PC, PS2, PS3, PSP, Wii, Xbox 360
11 6 Fight Night Champion PS3, Xbox 360
12 7 Just Dance 2 Wii
13 2 Dragon Age II PC, PS3, Xbox 360
14 New entry Super Monkey Ball 3D 3DS
15 New entry Ridger Racer 3DS 3DS
16 9 Killzone 3 PS3
17 34 The Sims 3 DS, PC, PS3, Xbox 360
18 Re-entry PES 2011 3DS, PC, PS3, PSP, Wii, Xbox 360
19 13 Top Spin 4 PS3, Wii, Xbox 360
20 New entry Nintendogs + Cats: Golden Retriever 3DS
21 10 Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood PC, PS3, Xbox 360
22 12 Call of Duty: Black Ops DS, PC, PS3, Wii, Xbox 360
23 14 uDraw Studio Wii
24 Re-entry Dissida 012: Final Fantasy PSP
25 Re-entry Assassin's Creed II PC
26 11 Bulletstorm PC, PS3, Xbox 360
27 18 Wii Party Wii
28 22 Wii Sports Resort Wii
29 37 Michael Jackson: The Experience DS, PS3, PSP, Wii, Xbox 360
30 19 Just Dance Wii
31 23 Wii Fit Plus Wii
32 16 Test Drive Unlimited 2 PC, PS3, Xbox 360
33 24 Art Academy DS
34 New entry Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Shadow Wars 3DS
35 21 Dance Juniors Wii
36 4 Shogun 2: Total War PC
37 17 Kirby's Epic Yarn Wii
38 Re-entry Dead Space 2 PC, PS3, Xbox 360
39 New entry Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell 3D 3DS
40 29 F1 2010 PC, PS3, Xbox 360

UKIE Games Charts compiled by GfK Chart-Track.

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About Robert Purchese

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Comments (26) Latest comment 1 year ago

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  • MojoDex #1 1 year ago

    Crysis 2 deserves the top spot, Amazing game. Those figures also prove why it was released on consoles as well.

  • riceNpea #2 1 year ago

    who's still buying homefront?? boy are they in for a nasty shock when it doesn't work

  • jag10 #3 1 year ago

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTp9ZlK_K...

  • Bradach #4 1 year ago

    I was considering Crysis2 but decided to wait for BRINK next month. that looks incredible.

  • grubbstar #5 1 year ago

    The Sims Medieval is PC only isn't it? The 3DS version is in with the other formats of The Sims 3 at #17

  • Darren #6 1 year ago

    Crysis 2 is the best FPS I've played in a long, long time... since BioShock actually and that's high praise coming from someone who finds FPSs generally boring and very samey these days (oh, Killzone 3, why did you have be so generic and plodding as a single player game?). A well deserved top spot.

  • Goodfella #7 1 year ago

    Spambots are up early today, ffs.

    Anyway, no surprises re the charts.

  • Ignatius_Cheese #8 1 year ago

    Sandals for 32$!!? Outrage!!

  • CaptainQuint #9 1 year ago

    Go Crysis 2!

    Amazing game, both online and off.

  • Killerbee #10 1 year ago

    @Darren:

    I'd seriously recommend playing Killzone 3 through again on Elite difficulty. The AI really comes alive and it turns the game from a fairly generic run and gun shooter to something much more tactical. Good use of cover and the lean&peek mechanic is essential if you want to get through it. I'm actually enjoying my second play through the game more than my first.

    As for Crysis 2, I'll probably pick up the PC version once they patch DX11 in and fix the SLI problem I've read about on a few forums. I stuck Warhead on over the weekend to remind myself what Crysis is like and it really is a very good game indeed.

  • M_of_the_sys #11 1 year ago

    Sandals for 32$!!? Outrage!!

    Enchantment?

  • Cjail #12 1 year ago

    I am so happy to see that Lego Star Wars is the second one!

  • abigsmurf #13 1 year ago

    Rayman 3D is such a huge dissapointment, really doesn't deserve to beat other 3DS titles.

    Ghosting issues, poor quality sound that randomly cuts in and cuts out, a frame rate that drops well below 30fps a lot of the time (which adds hugely to the eye strain from the 3D and ghosting), frequent, low quality loading screens... It's a very shoddy port of a decent platformer.

  • bad09 #14 1 year ago

    Whatever us PC owners think of the sequel compared to 1, Crysis 2 without doubt deserves the top spot. Really enjoying it and the detail is wicked, I realised this last night when I was hiding behind a truck which caught on fire and it's leaking fuel ignited and spread across the floor surrounding me in flames!

    Still miss grabing and punching Koreans though, the masked CELL guys have no personality and not one of them has called me a milky bar :(
    Edited by bad09 at 28/03/11 @ 10:40

  • TRUTH #15 1 year ago

    Killerbee

    Done that the AI is mostly the same - it's only you go down quicker, they shoot you with better accuracy at distance and they take a few shots more to take down.

  • davisorle #16 1 year ago

    Post deleted at 15:13:14 09-05-2012

  • Killerbee #17 1 year ago

    @TRUTH

    "Done that the AI is mostly the same "

    Really? Maybe it's the way I've played it, but I've seen far more intelligent behaviour from the AI on Elite - more flanking movements, cleverer use of grenades to flush you out of cover, better AI use of cover (such as rolling on the ground to shoot at you from a prone position) - all things that didn't happen on my "Normal" playthrough as far as I could tell.

    @Negs:

    (Apologies in advance for the rant)

    I really, really hate this system of letting people rate each others' posts.

    Why have I been marked down for that post? Because I spoke up for a PS3 exclusive? Because I said I will get the PC version of Crysis 2 some time in the future when (most likely) all versions of the game will have been patched up a bit to improve the experience? Do me a favour.

    I've been reading Eurogamer for the best part of a decade (hence my user id) and although the editorial, reviews and articles are every bit as good as they always were (if not better), the standard of the community comments has really gone to the dogs and it's not helped by the fanboy bullshit that many of the news stories seem designed to attract.

    Come on Eurogamer and the EG community. You used to be better than this.

  • randompanda #18 1 year ago

    I may have read that as being Crysis 2 for 3ds :/

  • patootik #19 1 year ago

    This week I bought Yakuza 4 and Deadly Premonition, and boy am I happy, so sick of shooters, it's just too much, KZ3 then Bulletstorm, Homefront, Crysis 2, next up Brink, then Rage, new COD, Battlefield 3. Who the fuck has the time for all these!? Especially the time sink that is online!

    That said I will buy Battlefield 3, and possibly Rage. But seriously, it's games like Yakuza and Deadly Premonition that remind why I love gaming.

  • AgentCool #20 1 year ago

    @abigsmurf - Can't say I've encountered any ghosting or sound issues and I've played right through the game. The occasionally dodgy frame rate is a bit of a disappointment but nowhere near game-breaking. Despite being a port, for me, it's one of the better 3DS launch titles.

  • abigsmurf #21 1 year ago

    @AgentCool

    The sound issues are pretty major. Sounds sometimes cancel each other out (most noticable when the sound that's cancelled out is an ambient sound effect) music starts and stops abruptly rather than fading in and out. There's a huge amount of distortion in the music (that doesn't go away when the volume's lowered).

    The ghosting happens mostly on the cut scenes.

    The frame rate to me was hugely detrimental because it compounds the strain of the 3D. Rayman has been the only game so far to give me a headache.

  • king26 #22 1 year ago

    Killzone 3 and Bad Company 2 will keep me satisfied on the fps front until Battlefield 3. I don't want to overload on a single genre

  • MattyD #23 1 year ago

    14%? PC gaming really is dead.

    For the record I don't count Farmville and flash games as PC gaming :(

  • Sharzam #24 1 year ago

    Remember that 14% is not including digital distrubtion just including retail, where as the ALL the console copies would of been sold via retail.

    To be honest i am actually surprised retail is that high at all for PC. My local independent retailer actually said to me just the other day it will not be restocking any PC games as in last couple years its practically gone down to 0, which i am not surprised about as i do all my buying via steam (and sometimes EA store) these days and imagine quite a few PC gamers are simlier.

  • loopy #25 1 year ago

    @Sharzam That's exactly it. I don't personally know any PC gamers who buy from retail these days (not bricks and mortar anyway), most of them buy digitally via Steam/ GoG and so on, or may go the online e-tail route if the savings are worth it.

    That 14% figure is slightly misleading in that sense.

  • bad09 #26 1 year ago

    Yeah Bricks and mortar PC is dead, I'm surprised at 14% as well.

    I got Crysis 2 from my local indie as he stocks a couple of the new releases (the only place for miles I can buy new PC games in a shop) as I had an old PSP and a few old console games to trade in but it cost nearly a tenner more than most online retailers and even a fiver more than Steam at 35 notes!