Halo 3: ODST tops UK charts

By Tom Bramwell Published 28 September, 2009

Professor Layton in at two.

Halo 3: ODST is top of the All-Formats Top 40 chart this week following its 22nd September launch on Xbox 360.

Tuesday was an unusual slot, but apparently that didn't put off shoppers, with 64 per cent of the game's first-week sales going through in its first 24 hours.

According to data compilers Chart-Track, however, the Rookie hasn't quite got the beating of the Master Chief, whose last outing in Halo 3 enjoyed the fourth-best first-week sales for a single-format release in recorded history. ODST managed 12th.

Elsewhere, Professor Layton and Pandora's Box puzzled nobody by taking second spot ahead of last week's number one, Need for Speed: Shift. Layton's last game, The Curious Village, saw its sales go up by 36 per cent, too - enough to bump it to 18th.

Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2 was another new arrival at seven, while NCsoft's ambitious MMORPG Aion swept in at 11, making it the highest-placed PC exclusive.

Further down there was a new entry for MySims Agents at 16, and re-entries for Madden (32), the immutable LEGO Star Wars: The Complete Saga (33) and Guitar Hero: On Tour Decades (36).

With apologies to games like Risen and Beatorator, next week's number one will be FIFA 10. See this week's top 40 below.

This Week Last Week Title Platform(s)
1 New entry Halo 3: ODST Xbox 360
2 New entry Professor Layton and Pandora's Box DS
3 1 Need for Speed: Shift PC, PS3, PSP, Xbox 360
4 2 Guitar Hero 5 PS2, PS3, Wii, Xbox 360
5 5 Wii Sports Resort Wii
6 4 Batman: Arkham Asylum PS3, Xbox 360
7 New entry Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2 PS3, Xbox 360
8 3 Colin McRae: DiRT 2 DS, PC, PS3, PSP, Wii, Xbox 360
9 6 WET PS3, Xbox 360
10 9 Wii Fit Wii
11 New entry Aion PC
12 13 Mario Kart Wii Wii
13 7 The Beatles: Rock Band PS2, PS3, Wii, Xbox 360
14 16 Quantum of Solace DS, PC, PS2, PS3, Wii, Xbox 360
15 18 Call of Duty: World at War PC, Xbox 360, PS3, PS2, Wii, DS
16 New entry MySims Agents Wii
17 38 Wii Play Wii
18 23 Professor Layton and the Curious Village DS
19 15 Mini Ninjas DS, PC, PS3, Wii, Xbox 360
20 11 IL-2 Sturmovik: Birds of Prey DS, PS3, PSP, Xbox 360
21 22 Grand Theft Auto IV Xbox 360, PS3, PC
22 17 Ashes Cricket 2009 PC, PS3, Wii, Xbox 360
23 10 Tiger Woods PGA Tour 10 PS2, PS3, Wii, Xbox 360
24 8 Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare Xbox 360, PS3, PC, DS
25 19 Far Cry 2 PC, PS3, Xbox 360
26 12 Fight Night Round 4 PS3, Xbox 360
27 14 Championship Manager 2010 PC
28 20 LEGO Batman DS, PC, PS2, PS3, PSP, Wii, Xbox 360
29 21 Dr. Kawashima's Brain Training DS
30 25 Guitar Hero: World Tour Xbox 360, PS3, PS2, Wii
31 24 Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince DS, PC, PS2, PS3, PSP, Wii, Xbox 360
32 Re-entry Madden NFL 10 PS2, PS3, PSP, Wii, Xbox 360
33 Re-entry LEGO Star Wars: The Complete Saga DS, PS3, Wii, Xbox 360
34 36 SingStar: Motown PS2, PS3
35 30 Mario Kart DS DS
36 Re-entry Guitar Hero: On Tour Decades DS
37 33 Sonic Unleashed PS2, PS3, Wii, Xbox 360
38 26 SEGA Superstars Tennis DS, PS2, PS3, Wii, Xbox 360
39 29 FIFA 09 PC, Xbox 360, PS3, PS2, PSP, Wii, DS
40 31 The Sims 3 PC
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  • uglygamer #1 2 years ago

    Considering its a Halo 3 spin off the sales are pretty good.

  • Zoro #2 2 years ago

    Nice knowing Layton's doing good. Now there's a game that deserves all the love it gets.

  • muscleblade #3 2 years ago

    Not at all surprising that ODST took the top spot. And deservedly so.

  • deadmonkeyuk #4 2 years ago

    Mario Kart Wii seems to have been in the chart forever

  • Dizzy #5 2 years ago

    Both Layton and ODST are ace games. Well deserved.

  • GamerG #6 2 years ago

    I'm loving ODST, it has reminded that the Halo mechanics are overall better than COD's. I just wish my mates saw it the same way as all they ever want to do is play Gears or COD!

  • HiddenAway #7 2 years ago

    Essentially, anything releasing on the same week as FIFA is guaranteed to not make the summit...

  • SlackMaster #8 2 years ago

    It's good ODST took the top spot after all the talk of it not being value for money. IMO it's the best Halo game since the original, having a better story than 2 and 3 combined even if it is a shorter game overall. Not had chance to play firefight yet as not many on my friends list ahve the game yet and not that keen playing with strangers.

  • mcmonkeyplc #9 2 years ago

    Finally a great game tops the chart. The drought is over.

  • IronGiant #10 2 years ago

    So nowhere near the numbers for Halo3 then, gamers are getting bored with the Halo universe, Bungie please make something new!!

  • Zomoniac #11 2 years ago

    Essentially, anything releasing on the same week as FIFA is guaranteed to not make the summit...

    And with very good reason. FIFA thoroughly deserves every sale it gets, and then some.

  • Collymilad #12 2 years ago

    "So nowhere near the numbers for Halo3 then, gamers are getting bored with the Halo universe, Bungie please make something new!! "

    So it trounces most games sales in a day, and just because it sold less than Halo 3, which sold bazillions, that means gamers are bored with Halo? Ok.... :|

  • Spanky #13 2 years ago

    I'm kinda pissed off at people having swept this off the shelves, a 5 hour campaign for (mostly) £35?! For shame. Having had a little sniff around the bricks and mortar shops at the weekend i've also noticed a hike in quite a lot of shelf prices, the creep back to £45 is back on, well done.

    /golf clap.

  • captainrentboy #14 2 years ago

    Irongiant, it's top of the charts and supposedly sold 2 million copies in one day, that isn't going to make Bungie want to move onto anything else, if it had sold like 6 copies then you'd have a point.
    Like a few of the posters above me I actually enjoyed ODST more than Halo 3, there was very little level backtracking and it let you play, in quick succession, each of the best type of action set piece you would expect in any Halo title. And played on Heroic it wasn't particularly short either :/

  • miiiguel #15 2 years ago

    Two of the best games (imo) this year were expansions, Lost and Damned and ODST. Refined GTA and Halo, respectively.

  • Stifler #16 2 years ago

    Iron giant, may I introduce you to fail....oh I see you two have already met..........

    ODST so far has taken the best of Halo and Halo 2 and combined them into a greatest hits type package, the inclusion of Firefight rounds of the title and tbh for £30 i think it also represents good value for money.

    Heroic was about an 8 hr play through for me (took my time exploring) and legendary on co-op with my buddies will be fun, not to mention the hours i will sink into firefight.

    Bungie have at last recaptured that wining formula of 30 seconds of fun over and over, they lost their way with 3 with too many grand set pieces and only one way t odo things. They should have concentrated on the tight short battles with multiple ways to complete the scenario which they have done in ODST and which make it a great game.

    WIN.

  • doragor #17 2 years ago

    Good stuff, it's a fantastic game. I wasn't expecting it be this good. Great story, the pacing is tremendous and it's steeped in atmosphere. Love the music. Voice acting is top notch as well. As fans of the game seem to agree, it's all the good things about Halo distilled into a pretty compelling campaign. And no Flood.

    5 hours to finish it? wtf? Where's the joy is racing through this? Took me 3 evenings on Heroic, easily 12 hours or more as I was exploring at my lesiure and playing cautiously. Firefight's the icing on the cake, so much fun. GOTY for me.

  • doragor #18 2 years ago

    @ Stilfer

    "they lost their way with 3 with too many grand set pieces and only one way t odo things. They should have concentrated on the tight short battles with multiple ways to complete the scenario which they have done in ODST and which make it a great game. "

    qftw

  • ps3owner #19 2 years ago

    GOTY?! some ppl are easy to please

  • doragor #20 2 years ago

    @ ps3owner

    I presume you've played it then?

  • Petulant_Radish #21 2 years ago

    It thoroughly deserves top spot, it’s a brilliant game for many of the reasons above so I won’t repeat them, though I will repeat a love in for Firefight, it’s awesome, that security level is a bitch though! I loved horde mode, but this has quickly overtaken it in my estimation.

  • ps3owner #22 2 years ago

    of course I haven't. just trying to piss everyone off :).

  • mcmonkeyplc #23 2 years ago

    I see the Halo trolls have arrived.

  • Dizzy #24 2 years ago

    "Saying that, millions have been happy to shell out for 'more of the same' for years. Take Half-Life - you might as well charge my credit card for the next ten years because I'm buying regardless. "

    In the case of Halo and HL all of them have been worth the money. When a game is good, you don't always have to change a lot especially if the game is thick on gameplay.

  • Lebowski #25 2 years ago

    Call of Duty 4 plummets to #24. Everyone on the planet must have their copy now.

  • skillian #26 2 years ago

    I don't know how you can say Half-Life 2 is more of the same.

    There were massive changes and innovations between HL1 and HL2.

  • Zomoniac #27 2 years ago

    Take Half-Life - you might as well charge my credit card for the next ten years because I'm buying regardless.

    You make that sound like there's even the slightest chance of even Ep 3, let alone HL3, turning up the next ten years.

  • Walshicus #28 2 years ago

    You mad Semitope?

  • Petulant_Radish #29 2 years ago

    Why would anyone from Britain pay $60 for a game? I must have missed the exchange rate bouncing back to make that worthwhile, I usually shop around and pay in sterling, that seems mostly appropriate what with me living in the UK and all that.
    Edited by 1 at 28/09/09 @ 13:48

  • MeBrains #30 2 years ago

    donnie:oDST is a great package and shows what powerful exclusives msoft have this gen, which although they may not get the critical plaudits like LBP,etc.. they do sell in their millions and have the popular vote among most gamers. I expect L4 D2,FORZA3 and odst to outsell every single sony exclusive worldwide this xmas. After all the GT5 hype,the only exclusive the ps3 has that i will bother with is the excellent uncharted, while the 360 has 3 must buys.disappointing

    Not disputing the fact that ODST is a great package - given by the comments on its release, it seems to be something good. Yet, deducting that 360 has better exclusives because of ODST selling millions, is pushing it. I think it sells millions because a very large part of 360 owners precisely have that console, because of allegiance to the Halo-brand. That group will buy any Halo being Metacritic'd above 60 - this one seems to be quite special, so a even larger portions buys into it.

    You mention L4D2 - I hardly know the game, except that it is about Zombies and apparently quite good. I do not believe sells a system. You mention Forza 3, while undoubtedly a great game, it will not necessarily convert potential buyers to 360, since GT has the bigger name and will come to PS3. And you mention Halo which I discussed.

    You might be right that this Christmas the three you mention will have higher sales than any of Sony's exclusives. I believe the reason to be that 360 owners really have not a lot more AAA to buy this year. PS3 owners have a lot to look forward to though and I believe that will be reflected in end-of-year sales of the platform...

  • El-Dev #31 2 years ago

    Donnies inability to come up with an original post has really shown itself here as he has posted the same thing twice. Obsession is a terrible mental illness.

    Good idea by MS, starve the customers of exclusives all year and then release three a month apart. It's good that there is something to salvage 2009 for 360 only gamers.

  • Dr.Haggard #32 2 years ago

    Best description of ODST I've heard so far was that it's "Halo with a System Shock atmosphere".

    The flashbacks are classic Halo and the New Mombasa hub with its thick atmosphere, log-hunting, and slightly-sinister-yet-chirpy AI are where Halo meets System Shock/Bioshock. Great atmosphere and the most consistently good Halo game since... well ever really.

  • GamerG #33 2 years ago

    @ semitope

    what you going on about?!! ODST is a fantastic game, for example although it may not look as good as Killzone 2 it out classes it in the gameplay department.

    The game is well worth anyones money and can be bought for £29.99 online and £34.99 is stores which makes it cheaper than most titles latley.

  • miiiguel #34 2 years ago

    It would be nice to know, from the fellow video-gamers who whine about Halo ODST actually bought/played it. Halo has this strange aura - atracting people who don't like sci-fi; FPS's; online gaming; Master Chiefs..., though they all need to say it..., twice, in every Halo thread. Sometimes is funny, sometimes is not.
    I just hope my fun with the game doesn't bother anyones bad vibe.
    Edited by 1 at 28/09/09 @ 14:24

  • Dizzy #35 2 years ago

    >Having 'Halo' in a topic title is a traditional way to lure and weed out the stupids.

    It is also a great way of updating your ignore list. TBH I have not seen one troll here... but it looks like 7 messages are "missing" ;)

  • miiiguel #36 2 years ago

    The typical douches who come online and act as if anyone commenting on a topic falls under some stereotype. Think for yourself and stop commenting on other peoples comments... so stupid.

    And 10 minutes ago:

    halo fans are idiots so what do you expect. All this tells M$ is that they OWN YOU!

    Coming from a person who says he hates stereotypes, and just "expressed a honest opinion".
    Bah... whatever.
    Edited by 1 at 28/09/09 @ 15:27

  • metalangel #37 2 years ago

    This seems as good a place as any to ask:

    Why, when reading the 360 section, do I have a massive fucking banner ad for the new PSP?

  • metalangel #38 2 years ago

    I think it's mostly that stupid Sackboy throwing gangsta shapes with his tongue sticking out - that makes me want to put my fist through the screen.

    (oh noes, teh Snoy fanbois in ere are voting me dowen! Wooods it helps if I r complane abt teh Perfessar Leyton 2?)

  • Calgon #39 2 years ago

    Semitope maybe we just dont like fuckwits who feign a sense of objectivity("oooh I own a 360 though, everyone else must be a single console owner, if they prefer that to my beloved PS3, I'm just trying to show them the light... PS3 ftw!";) and who's post history is full of thinly veiled troll posts. Sometimes you dont even try to hide it...

    "ODST doesnt look amazing and neither does halo 3. Both look like shite"

    You still wonder why nobody seems to want a discussion with you? Or don't quite buy that you're not a PS3 fanboy? *understatement*

    There's nothing worse than a self important PS3 troll who beleives people actually want to listen to their bullshit, maybe, just maybe they want decent discusions without a horde of fuckwits trying to derail them every time.

    It certainly looks to be the case that some of you see a healthy discussion, with people saying how much they are enjoying a 360 game or maturely weighing up the good and the bad and you think "oh shit... best just balance it out with a RROD comment or tell them I think its shit"... I know which fanbase looks to be the most satisfied to me because that kind of behaviour suggests they aren't, infact it seems pretty bitter indeed.
    Edited by 2 at 28/09/09 @ 19:17

  • GamerG #40 2 years ago

    @ metalangel

    because 360 owners might want to buy the PSP? What with them liking games n'all?
    Edited by 1 at 28/09/09 @ 15:44

  • Calgon #41 2 years ago

    @semitope: Was that your idea of a good retort? You failed, you seem to think anyone wants to listen to you... you dont get it do you? You are still being self important and self rightious("its my right to troll";).

    BTW - reading your post history is a big laugh with the high and mighty attitude you are putting on here, not only are you a hypocrite, but some of your posts are earily Tin-foil hat like too, this one gave me a chuckle because it shows both of these traits in one:

    Regarding Richards article/opinnions on GT5s damage model:
    "Another irresponsible article i say. Is M$ getting their dirty hands involved?!?!"

    If you dont like "M$" thats your choice, if you dont like 360 or it's games, everyone is fine with that too!... but why bother pretending you can discuss things in a mature manner when you clearly can't?

    Now kindly stop whining that everybody is being unfair or maybe find somewhere else?
    Edited by 1 at 28/09/09 @ 16:09

  • TopKatt #42 2 years ago

    *Sigh* Why does every thread on here end up like this! As a Sony fan, not fanboi, I'm pleased that my Xbox owning cousins have a quality title to enjoy.

  • Spanky #43 2 years ago

    Ooooh -25 niiiice.

    BREAKING NEWS
    Halo3: Engineers Saga
    Prepare to finish the fight: Steer a covenant engineer through a car park, find the burst balloon innards of your old pals and replay their final moments, adding an amazing 45 mins of gameplay. Also comes with a couple of maps that are a year old, and a halo pen. Preorder now for £100.
    Edited by 1 at 28/09/09 @ 16:35

  • MeBrains #44 2 years ago

    this thread is kind of sad indeed. only the (majority of the) comments which are overly positive towards ODST get plus points. Even one sided rants, which can easily be debunked, and as long as they are positive towards MS are plussed. Balanced ones, like I would call mine stand at -10. The reason I suppose is that it is not blindly positive towards MS. Or am I mistaking?

  • MeBrains #45 2 years ago

    donnie: hmmm, PLAYSTAION3 OWNERS(LIKE MYSELF) have been looking fward to sony release dates that never seem to come. msoft announce l4d2,forza3 at this years E3 and we have them before xmas the same year, thats why people have stuck with the 360 and why most dual system owners prefer it,not because of the HALO brand.

    why do you say that first part? How long ago has MS announced Alan Wake?!? It is exactly the same, yet you complain about Sony? Why donnie?

    MS announced L4D2, Forza 3, ODST at this years E3 (I think some have been known before E3), I'll give you that, but you do need to take into account that these are sequels from IP's already having had a predecessor on current gen HW. So they are inherently easier to develop than original IP's like Alan Wake, The Last Guardian and Heavy Rain, no? I prefer to wait for all of these to be great, instead of "within a certain amount of time for some not to complain about them".

    so, I do not agree with your second part either.

  • Nephirion #46 2 years ago

    ODST is good but I don't think it will get GOTY

  • miiiguel #47 2 years ago

    "360 exclusives dont compel me "

    Dude, WTF?! You made 10 posts (more than anyone else) on a 360 exclusive thread? Why? What drives you?