Ass Creed fights off ProStreet

By Games Industry.biz Published 27 November, 2007

UK Charts: COD4 at three.

Ubisoft's Assassin's Creed has managed to hold on to the number one position in the UK all formats charts, despite a 32 per cent drop in sales, GamesIndustry.biz reports.

EA's annual update of its key racing franchise - Need for Speed: Pro Street - debuts at number two in the chart, while Activision's Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare slips to three with a 46 per cent drop in sales.

The Simpsons Game is at four, with Nintendo's DS title Dr Kawashima's Brain Training seeing a 30 per cent sales boost as it climbs to number five.

Konami's Pro Evolution Soccer 2008 also fights its way back up the charts from nine to six, while Super Mario Galaxy for the Wii falls to seven.

THQ's WWE Smackdown Vs RAW falls to eight, EA's FIFA 08 is at nine and Activision's Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock makes its debut at ten.

There are four other new entries in the top 40 this week, all of which have been heavily marketed by their respective publishers.

Microsoft's Xbox 360 exclusive Mass Effect charts at 12, while Sega's Mario and Sonic and the Olympic Games is at 14.

Eidos' new IP Kane & Lynch: Dead Men is at 16 and Midway's PC shooter Unreal Tournament III just scrapes into the charts at number 40.

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Comments (31) Latest comment 4 years ago

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  • dr_swin #1 4 years ago

    please dont let prostreet be christmas number one. not with so much goodness out there!

  • asphaltcowboy #2 4 years ago

    STOP CALLING IT ASS CREED!

  • Steroyd #3 4 years ago

    YES!

    NFS Pro Streets sales haven't taken the top spot on week one, the omens are good, that the public AREN'T idiots.... that much.

  • tinodz #4 4 years ago

    ARSE

  • Artemis_Matsas #5 4 years ago

    @ dr_swin + asphaltcowboy

    +1

  • Aphex666 #6 4 years ago

    My god Mass Effect so low down!!!! I guess they should have spent more on advertising as Ubisoft has done with Ass Creed, which i've seen more often on TV than something that has been on TV a lot.

  • Dizzy #7 4 years ago

    >My god Mass Effect so low down

    They had only 2 days of sales....

    Also on the *real* chart of individual titles it is a 4.
    Edited by 2 at 27/11/07 @ 11:13

  • sd99 #8 4 years ago

    How is PES2008 still selling? It's completely broken online - even after the patch!

  • Hog-lumps #9 4 years ago

    Ass Creed sounds like some kind of horrible medical infliction.....

  • Steroyd #10 4 years ago

    They had only 2 days of sales....

    That's a crap excuse EVERY new release has had 2 days of sales, COD 4, Bioshock, Halo 3, Assassin's Creed, fifa, Pro Evo ALL OF THEM.

  • BadBoyBonner #11 4 years ago

    Unreal Tournament III at number 40 - Oh dear - seems everyone has seen the UE3 tech demo (Gears of War) and couldn’t give a monkeys about UT3 on the PC.

    Well done to which ever guy at MS selected GoW over UT3 so far out from release.

    And after seeing what Crysis can do on the PC, and CoD 4 and A Creed on 360 & PS3 - seems the UE3 just isn't what everyone was hoping it would be.

    *shudders at thinking how the lack of antialiasing and crapola frame rate would have made ACreed look & play on the 360 had it used UE3.

  • Darren #12 4 years ago

    I'm shocked that a game as supposedly mediocre as NFS: ProStreet (the demo was as dull as dishwater IMO) has beaten a quality if technically under par game like the wonderful Mass Effect. There's just no justice, is there? :(

  • BadBoyBonner #13 4 years ago

    Steroyd

    Didn't Halo 3 come out at midnight on a Tuesday (well start of wednesday I guess but most would reffer to it as Tuesday night).

  • BadBoyBonner #14 4 years ago

    Darren

    “There's just no justice, is there? :(“

    Of course there is justice, of a sort - people are still making high quality games where you need a triple figure I.Q. to do well at it – unfortunately this has the knock on effect of shrinking it’s own market.

    Need for Speed - has gone from it’s pinnacle as a classy driving game (3DO version) to this lowest common denominator drivel – which gives it mass appeal – style over content.

    Seems to revolve around the argument of :- gamers who want to make the best game they possibly can and would like to play themselves (BioWare) to a company (EA) who simply wants to make the most money out of the industry and knows that that is not by making the best gamers game as this would close out a lot of potential purchasers.

    Clearly the holly grail is making a gamers game with mass appeal – hence the rise of sandbox games where everyone can get something out of it – even though most of the people only able to enjoy the sandbox element of say the GTA games, shouldn’t actually be playing them at all according to the BBFC.

  • mkreku #15 4 years ago

    Jade. Jade! Jade?

  • hula hoops #16 4 years ago

    That kinda proves that most gamers take certain game reviews with a pinch of salt.

  • Darren #17 4 years ago

    @BadBoyBonner - So the sequel to Mass Effect will be called Mass Effect 2: Mass Appeal then, it'll be dumbed down, full of adverts and it'll be released by EA? ;)

  • Olemak #18 4 years ago

    I give most games rear end-related nicknames. Ass Cred is a given, Ass Effect ditto. Call of Booty 4 is perhaps more obscure.

  • JayPee #19 4 years ago

    Hmm, UTIII at 40.

    That says something about console gaming methinks.

  • BadBoyBonner #20 4 years ago

    Darren - your probably on the money with the Mass Effect 2: Mass Appeal.

    Unfortunately - as the popularity of games increases - the complexity and skill required seems to nose dive in equal measure.

    Maybe it will just happen in waves, as their base skill increase's so will mainstream games, until the cycle starts again.

    Hard to say - but I am happy for all comers.

    I see games like Draughts(checkers) and Chess.

    I started on draughts and now love the complexity of chess - and I am happy to teach anyone who likes the idea of having a game of chess even though they do not yet posses any skill and very little knowledge - and the interest has been borne of playing draughts.

    EA are very good at making a variety of games based on draughts - which they sell alot of to the wider public.

    Chess - is much more for the discerning or refined gamer who is seeking to be challenged as well as entertained.

    **IMO** The real distinction between the two sets really comes down to this - some people can have fun gaming without being challenged - and for some people overcoming the challenge is the fun.

    P.S. Obviously there are the sandbox games that straddle the two where even those seeking to be challenged still enjoy the simple fun of playing in the environment – like I did in Crackdown (just wish I hadn’t played the demo so many bloody times as it took the edge off the game for me).

    p.p.s. that is the first time I have even written the word Draughts in my life and would say that my first Draughts set was a ZX81 lol.
    Edited by 1 at 27/11/07 @ 13:25

  • Steroyd #21 4 years ago

    Steroyd

    Didn't Halo 3 come out at midnight on a Tuesday (well start of wednesday I guess but most would reffer to it as Tuesday night).

    I was debating to put a star next to Halo and explain it as a special case because I wasn't so sure if it had officially launched on Tuesday/Wednesday.

    I thought it leaked on Wednessday but it's official release date was Friday.

  • BadBoyBonner #22 4 years ago

    No it (Halo 3) leaked a week early - mainly though the Argos reserve and pick-up system.

    The official Launch was Tuesday Night/ Wednesday morning in the UK.

  • Gurgeh #23 4 years ago

    Individual titles:

    1) Assassin's Creed (360)
    2) Brain Training
    3) Mario Galaxy
    4) Mass Effect
    5) More Brain Training
    6) Call of Duty 4 (360)
    7) Mario & Sonic At The Olympics
    8) Assassin's Creed (PS3)
    9) High School Musical (PS2)
    10) Need for Speed: Prostreet (PS2)

  • glo #24 4 years ago

    My god, will people ever stop buying Brain Training?

    It's been in the chart forever. It must have one of the highest Returns on Investment of all games ever made since it cost about £25 to make.

  • gmmonkey #25 4 years ago

    Ass creed. Lol.

  • db3 #26 4 years ago

    "How is PES2008 still selling? It's completely broken online - even after the patch!"
    Probably buying chart position....its been £24.99 for PS3 @ Amazon.co.uk for quite a while.



    Oh yeah and Pro Street is a steaming pile of shite

  • zozart #27 4 years ago

    God damn Brain Training AGAIN?

  • crozon #28 4 years ago

    depressing that crysis is now at 39 (debut at 14). however good news in germany and sweeden where it hit postions 1 and 4, in the overall charts. UTIII should sell well there as well.
    Plus with UTIII god knows how many people bought a digital copy

  • Apologie #29 4 years ago

    COD 4 is the best FPS ever... Modern Warfare on-line makes Halo 3 multiplayer look like shit.

  • Kostabi #30 4 years ago

    Brain Training is the new Simpsons: Hit and Run me thinks.

  • L42yB #31 4 years ago

    @BadBoyBonner - Hey! Don't be so unfair on draughts! It's a pretty complex game if you play it well... ;)