UK Charts: Top ten receives Preys

By Paul Loughrey Published 18 July, 2006

But GTA remains the UK's best-selling game

Take-Two secures its fourth week at the top with GTA: Liberty City Stories, the publisher's long awaited FPS Prey marking this week's highest new entry at number 2.

Despite claiming the top spot on both the PC and Xbox 360 sales charts and originating some ten years ago as a PC concept, an astonishing 77 per cent of the sales were for the Xbox 360 version.

Nintendo's New Super Mario Bros. slips a single place into third this week, though continued strong sales of the DS Lite and a relatively high attachment rate thanks to retail promotion could see the title climb again next week.

Fourth place belongs to the handheld versions of Disney's Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, which has enjoyed a four place leap and marks the highest entry for the numerous summer movie tie-ins, filling the charts in the wake of the World Cup fever.

Activision's Over The Hedge slips a couple of places from three to five, followed by Dr. Kawashima's Brain Training and Konami's Pro Evolution Soccer 5 - both of which slide a single position to rest in sixth and seventh place respectively.

EA clings to football glory with FIFA World Cup Germany 2006 down four places to number eight, and the bottom of the chart is taken up by more movie-related games with EA's Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle Earth II on Xbox 360 in at nine, Ubisoft's Pirates of the Caribbean: Jack Sparrow making its debut at number ten.

Elsewhere in the charts, THQ stops to refuel, entering the all formats chart with Cars at number 16, although as we've seen with the other summer film franchises, the theatrical release is likely to give the game a significant boost in the coming weeks.

The remainder of the charts is as fickle as ever, a few climbers and all too many sliders making up the top forty as the summer kicks in, promotions help retailers shift some of the older titles and consumers await with bated breath the arrival of Sony and Nintendo's consoles and that "killer" game for Microsoft's machine.

This week the release schedule is all about sharp suits and sharper teeth, as Vivendi launches Miami Vice on PSP, and Majesco opens the gates to Jaws Unleashed on PC, PS2 and Xbox.

There's also Valkyrie Profile: Lenneth from Square Enix, the sequel for which has just taken Japan by storm, and GameCube owners can experience SEGA's latest iteration of its primate puzzler with Super Monkey Ball Adventure.

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Comments (14) Latest comment 6 years ago

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  • dbeamish #1 6 years ago

    how come you always post all that guff but never post the actual chart and then one of your readers copies and pastes it from some other site?

  • Xerx3s #2 6 years ago

    ...and that "killer" game for Microsoft's machine.

    What? Like the game that takes up the No. 2 position?

  • Kostabi #3 6 years ago

    "Because just presenting a list is boring?"

    It wouldn't be much more effort to just tack the list on the end of the article for those who want to see what's selling well at a quick glance. I like these indepth looks at the chart but it's annoying I have to go to the sister site or another one entirely just to get a list.

  • EmiliasHorse #4 6 years ago

    Are people still buying GTA:Liberty city stories? Its more of the same but not as good. I guess stealing cars and murder never goes out of fashion.

  • itamae #5 6 years ago

    Valkyrie Profile: Lenneth?

    Released this week?


    It has been released in the States today, and since the PSP is region free... my copy should be on its way now \o/

  • rauper Verified Managing Director, Eurogamer Network #6 6 years ago

    We're not allowed to republish the charts as they are exclusively licensed to another magazine.

  • jack_klugman #7 6 years ago

    Will we never see this in a list format?

  • NegativeZero #8 6 years ago

    Whoa, Valkyrie Profile got a PSP release? I guess it makes sense for them to do that with the sequel just around the corner.

    As for Prey's success on the 360, wouldn't that be because they had the demo in the Live marketplace? It sure seems to indicate that marketplace is a great way to promote your game...

  • Netfreak #9 6 years ago

    Eurogamer can't afford to pay their staff to make a proper chart.

  • v3rtigo #10 6 years ago

    Not really suprising about Prey on the 360 - the demo on Marketplace was hands down the best demo yet available on there. Also what else has there been to buy on the 360 recently? I don't think Chromehounds counts personally.

  • Skooch #11 6 years ago

    "Also what else has there been to buy on the 360 recently?"

    Couldn't agree more, usual summer drought hits again! Still, we can all look forward to Dead Rising and Gears of War in the coming months...(if they're your thing)

  • Mordum #12 6 years ago

    Haven't picked up Prey yet, but it certainly scored well on the web... looked up 6 or 7 review sites and it ranged from 7.5/10 up to 9/10, so widely considered a decent game then. Well, apart from Eurogamer that is, but if I take an average score from all the sites I've visited so far, then its definately worth picking up. Eurogamer is just in a minority with their opinion on this one it seems.
    I'll probably pick it up at the weekend.

  • geek-chic #13 6 years ago

    Even Mario Kart DS, released at the end of last year, is selling better than LocoRoco. I think it's sad that the only gaame capable of big sales on Sony's console is GTA..........

  • amorpheus #14 6 years ago

    i'm happy to not have considered at all the quite tight 7/10 sentence by EG
    i'm actually enjoing (really much) each minute of my 6th hours worth of Prey
    and all this beauty for just 36Euros
    hard to remember other money spent as worth as for prey for a game, surely not recently...