Force Unleashed dominates UK charts

By Robert Purchese Published 30 September, 2008

Hell's Highway, Pure feature. Top 40 inside.

Star Wars: The Force Unleashed is sitting pretty at the top of the UK all-formats chart for a second week running.

The game swatted away familiar attacks to leave the top three unchanged: Wii Fit at two and Mario Kart Wii at three.

Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway, at four, was the highest of the new entries this week. Pure also made a top 10 debut at eight.

Fleshing out the top flight were Tiger Woods PGA Tour 09 at five, Wii Play at six, Carnival: Funfair Games at seven, Big Beach Sports at nine and Guitar Hero III at 10.

Mercenaries just missed out and tumbled to 11, followed by Warhammer Online, which spends its second week down at 13.

Elsewhere, there were new entries for Family Trainer at 20, as well as a reappearance from Halo 3 at 30 - buoyed by, we like to think, the controversial teaser trailer for the new Bungie add-on.

Here's that top 40 in full:

  1. Star Wars: The Force Unleashed (Xbox 360, PS3, PS2, PSP, Wii, DS)
  2. Wii Fit (Wii)
  3. Mario Kart Wii (Wii)
  4. Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway (PC, Xbox 360, PS3)
  5. Tiger Woods PGA Tour '09 (Xbox 360, PS3, PS2, PSP, Wii)
  6. Wii Play (Wii)
  7. Carnival: Funfair Games (Wii)
  8. Pure (PC, Xbox 360, PS3)
  9. Big Beach Sports (Wii)
  10. Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock (Xbox 360, PS3, Wii, PS2, PC, DS)
  11. Mercenaries 2 (PC, Xbox 360, PS3, PS2)
  12. LEGO Indiana Jones (PC, Xbox 360, PS3, PS2, PSP, Wii, DS)
  13. Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning (PC)
  14. Spore (PC)
  15. Dr Kawashima's Brain Training (DS)
  16. Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games (Wii, DS)
  17. Mario Kart DS (DS)
  18. WALL-E (PC, Xbox 360, PS3, PS2, PSP, Wii, DS)
  19. Ben 10: Protector of Earth (Wii, DS, PS2, PSP)
  20. Family Trainer (Wii)
  21. Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (Xbox 360, PS3, PC, DS)
  22. Sports Island (Wii)
  23. TNA iMPACT (Xbox 360, PS3, PS2)
  24. Rock Band (Xbox 360, PS3, PS2, Wii)
  25. Crysis Warhead (PC)
  26. The Simpsons Game (Xbox 360, PS3, PS2, PSP, Wii, DS)
  27. Pro Evolution Soccer 2008 (PC, Xbox 360, PS3, PS2, PSP, Wii, DS)
  28. Grand Theft Auto IV (PS3, Xbox 360)
  29. Too Human (Xbox 360)
  30. Halo 3 (Xbox 360)
  31. Guitar Hero: On Tour (DS)
  32. LEGO Star Wars: The Complete Saga (Xbox 360, PS3, Wii, DS)
  33. Battlefield: Bad Company (Xbox 360, PS3)
  34. Puzzler Collection (PSP, DS)
  35. Imagine: Teacher (DS)
  36. FIFA 08 (Xbox 360, PS3, PC, Wii, PS2, DS, PSP)
  37. Super Smash Bros. Brawl (Wii)
  38. Sports Party (Wii)
  39. Beijing 2008 (PC, Xbox 360, PS3)
  40. Need For Speed ProStreet (PC, Xbox 360, PS3, PS2, PS2, PSP, Wii, DS)

Leisure software charts compiled by Chart Track, ©2008 ELSPA (UK) Ltd.

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Comments (7) Latest comment 3 years ago

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  • bad09 #1 3 years ago

    When FU is dominating the bargain bin or 2nd shelf I'll bite. This is not the SW game I'm looking for.....

  • rudedudejude #2 3 years ago

    Wii review?

  • Lagto_Soa #3 3 years ago

    7. Carnival: Funfair Games (Wii)
    9. Big Beach Sports (Wii)
    20. Family Trainer (Wii)
    22. Sports Island (Wii)
    38. Sports Party (Wii)

    /am cry

  • septimus #4 3 years ago

    Quite enjoying Pure, picked up the 360 version for £30 and it seems worth it so far. Little shallow and repetitive though. Thinking Motorstorm 2 will play better, but not look much better. Pure is a pretty game.

  • RandomTerrain #5 3 years ago

    I wonder how Wipeout did.

  • Triggerhappytel #6 3 years ago

    Good point RandomTerrain; unfortunately there's probably no way of knowing unless Sony release some download figures.

  • Darren #7 3 years ago

    Pure is an awesome little game but sadly it's so addictive that you can pretty much complete 90% of the Pure World Tour, the main single mode, in a weekend as I have and then there's only the allure of beating time and score records. And online if that's your thing. While you might not always come first in the races, you can go back to them later on with fully upgraded quad-bikes and win the events relatively easily. Only the later races prove mildy taxing (and sometimes frustrating due to the accurate collision detection - you think you'll clear that tree on a jump and pass through it like lesser games? Think again... LOL ). It's a hugely enjoyable game though with multiple routes and shortcuts on each of the tracks, which makes replaying them rewarding, especially in the Trial mode.

    In many ways this reminds me a lot of the wonderful Race Driver GRID, which was also so compulsive to play that you could finish 95% of the game within a few days. Perhaps a few more modes and tracks for Pure would have been welcome - there are only six environments with two areas each and sadly there's no icy or wet tracks except for a short section of the former on one of the New Zealand tracks. As it is Pure is one of the most memorable and enjoyable racing games I've had the pleasure of playing this generation... it's just so damn F.U.N.!!! Nice to see it in the top ten... I was afraid it would get overlooked... :)