Airborne lands on top of charts

By Robert Purchese Published 11 September, 2007

EA dislodges BioShock.

Medal of Honor has made a triumphant return to the UK charts by parachuting into the number one spot, GamesIndustry.biz reports.

Airbone takes the elusive top spot on its first week of release, backed-up in second place by EA's other big recent release, Tiger Woods PGA Tour 08.

Sales for BioShock genetically sagged by 59 per cent, leaving it in third, while Southpeak's free-roaming RPG Two Worlds adventured into the foray at number four.

Dr Kawashima flashed his familiar brainy face on DS at five, followed by Stuntman: Ignition, which jumped up from number nine to six.

More Brain Training trailed its predecessor in seventh place this week, and EA enjoyed further chart success at eight with the Bon Voyage expansion pack for The Sims 2.

Transformers tumbled further down the list to ninth, while Big Brain Academy on Wii rounded off this week's best in tenth.

The only other new entry in the top 40 is PSP title Monster Hunter: Freedom 2 at number 39.

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  • woodnotes #1 4 years ago

    360mination

  • souljacker2000 #2 4 years ago

    my thoughts exaclty, well done

  • asphaltcowboy #3 4 years ago

    Playing Airborne at the moment... takes a bit of getting used to the controls, but it is a good game, every so often, there are shining examples of pure brilliance (normally related to some gung-ho, crazy stunt you've tried and pulled off)!

  • Cloudane #4 4 years ago

    Well deserved if you ask me but for those who go to the cinema often, during the past two weeks I have ALWAYS seen a rather great MoH: Airborne advert when the adverts reel is being shown and that advert alone nearly sold me the game but I don't have a Xbox 360 so...

    Well deserved indeed.

  • menage #5 4 years ago

    Damn, Why do WO2 shooters sell so well. Doesn't everybody own a couple already (not me).

    Ah forget it, it's like soccer games as well. The same game with a couple of new features.
    Edited by 1 at 11/09/07 @ 11:37

  • Mr-Brett #6 4 years ago

    Airborne is better than the recent MoH games but still not even as good as Call of Duty 2 but then who actually expects the charts to reflect quality?

  • Dizzy #7 4 years ago

    Two Worlds at 4? Impressive. 360 owners are buying like mad... don't they know that it going to get worse soon? Too many games!!!

  • kiroquai #8 4 years ago

    I'm beginning to wonder if I'm playing the same Airborne everyone else is. My copy has awful hit detection which makes the shooting awfully hit-and-miss, the enemy AI run like lemmings to the same spot you've just sniped one of their friends in and Nazi soldiers literally spawn out of thin air in front of you at various points (happened to me a few times on the second level). Oh, that and the fact that I had to sit behind cover killing a cluster of 8 Nazi soldiers, and upon killing the last one a gaggle of half a dozen or so allied troops suddenly appeared from behind a bush were all the action had been taking place. Fun? Nah.

    The multiplayer is alright, but for me the single player is a bit todge.

  • Killerbee #9 4 years ago

    Meh.

    Super Paper Mario to top the charts next week or no?

    Much as I'd like it to, I reckon it'll end up 2nd or 3rd.

  • rashes #10 4 years ago

    I'm loving the combat in Airborne at the moment. Its really intense on normal difficulty. AI seems pretty good and very agressive and some of the battles are more intense than anything I've seen in call of duty.

    The last level is pure class!

    Multiplayed is good but the ranked matchmaking keeps throwing me into games with just 3 other people?
    And most of the bloody MP achievements are in ranked only which is totally stupid when so many people don't play ranked.
    Edited by 1 at 11/09/07 @ 11:55

  • menage #11 4 years ago

    "Multiplayed is good but the ranked matchmaking keeps throwing me into games with just 3 other people?
    And most of the bloody MP achievements are in ranked only which is totally stupid when so many people don't play ranked. "

    MP achievements should be banned. It's unfair, uneven and illogical. Take the crap Darkness MP for example.

  • Rirekon #12 4 years ago

    My favourite AI moment in the demo was watching Axis soldiers try to duck in front of cover to avoid me shooting at them.
    That's right, I said in front.

  • TruWari3r #13 4 years ago

    "seriously"

  • kiroquai #14 4 years ago

    "My favourite AI moment in the demo was watching Axis soldiers try to duck in front of cover to avoid me shooting at them.

    That's right, I said in front."

    Aye. My favourite bit of the first level was when one of the allied troops ducked for cover in an open doorway.

  • captainrentboy #15 4 years ago

    Thank you Kiroquai, I was getting fed up of my work colleagues saying that I was just shite at FPS games, the hit detection in this game is occasionally fooking terrible, ''Yep, that'll do it, the guy's out from cover, a perfect head shot..*Bang*...Nope, scratch that, he's fine, even though I'm pretty darned sure I hit the cunt right inbetween the eyes''
    Then I get angry and weep, hard!

  • bioreit #16 4 years ago

    Just finished Call of Duty 3 last night (twas a recent purchase for me, on account of being dirt cheap off Play). That has the WORST hit detection I've ever seen.

    I'm all for games being challenging and for me dying because I haven't cracked the right way to do summat, but when a soldier can shoot me but my bullets just seem to hit an impenetrable wall of invisible matter two feet in front of his head, then I start to get annoyed.

    I swear to God, I almost snapped my 360 controller several times last night. From what I've heard about Lair, I'm glad I haven't played that game, as PS3 controllers feel a lot less sturdy than 360 ones (odd to think of a MS product as ever being more resistant to breaking....) and my temper would not last the course!

    I realise COD3 ain't MOH:A, but just wanted to say that from what I played of the demo, Airborne has by far less annoyingness than COD3. Plus running over the rooftops of a house my AI buddies are storming through ranks quite highly as a cool moment.

  • Skooch #17 4 years ago

    MoH (IMO, as always) is turd. The controls are odd, to say the least. I cannot strafe and shoot at the same time, instead you just lean, Collision detection and hit detection is way off and the AI is some of the most stupid AI I have ever seen. COD3 is not very good (lame story, lame voice acting and buggy as hell) but the AI is far superior.

  • Darren #18 4 years ago

    Nice to see Two Worlds doing well. I was having a love-hate relationship with that game until last night when everything just "clicked" and now I'm loving it despite it's shonky production values.

  • Darren #19 4 years ago

    @Rirekon - "My favourite AI moment in the demo was watching Axis soldiers try to duck in front of cover to avoid me shooting at them.
    That's right, I said in front."

    That reminds of the equally moronic A.I. in the overrated Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter, which had my teammates taking cover in front of scenery rather than behind. That and the fact that you and your teammates could walk through each other just killed the game for me and I really couldn't see why everyone was hailing it as the second coming. Apart from some reasonably nice visuals (and horrid tearing) was a pretty mediocre third-person shooter with tons of bugs and glitches. Next-gen, my arse! LOL

  • Darren #20 4 years ago

    Where's the Two Worlds review, EG? I'm itching to find out what you think of it...

  • ronuds #21 4 years ago

    Pathetic...