UK Charts: Fight Night 4 the champ

By Robert Purchese Published 29 June, 2009

But fellow newcomers disappoint.

Fight Night Round 4 has become the first boxing game to top the UK All-Formats chart upon release. Perhaps it will now go to America and never be heard of again.

The EA Sports game leads a long list of newcomers this week, although few fare anywhere near as well - the only other top 10 débutante being Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen at six.

Overlord II spends its first week at 17, while siblings Overlord: Dark Legend on Wii and Overlord: Minions on DS miss both All-Formats and platform-specific charts.

Guitar Hero: Greatest Hits enters the All-Formats top 40 at 18, and Monster Hunter Freedom Unite - despite the concerted marketing efforts of Capcom and Sony - opens at only 25.

Even further down is newcomer Dynasty Warriors 6: Empires at 31, which has Spore: Galactic Adventures and Tales of Vesperia following at 37 and 38 respectively.

Other newcomers missing the All-Formats top 40 are Another Code R, which takes 18 in the Wii chart, Anno 1404 at 14 in the PC chart, and Guitar Hero On Tour: Modern Hits at 29 in the DS chart.

Those missing all lists whatsoever are Resident Evil: Archives on Wii, Prinny: Can I Really be the Hero? on PSP and Superstars V8 Racing on PC, PS3 and Xbox 360. Diabolik's performance is just that, as the DS, PC, PS2 and Wii title also misses out.

This Week Last Week Title Platform(s)
1 New entry Fight Night Round 4 PS3, Xbox 360
2 1 Prototype PC, PS3, Xbox 360
3 2 The Sims 3 PC
4 3 Wii Fit Wii
5 7 UFC 2009: Undisputed PS3, Xbox 360
6 New entry Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen DS, PC, PS2, PS3, PSP, Wii, Xbox 360
7 5 Call of Duty: World at War PC, Xbox 360, PS3, PS2, Wii, DS
8 9 Virtua Tennis 2009 PS3, Xbox 360
9 8 EA Sports Active Wii
10 4 Ghostbusters PS2, PS3
11 10 Grand Slam Tennis Wii
12 11 Professor Layton and the Curious Village DS
13 6 Red Faction: Guerrilla PS3, Xbox 360
14 15 Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare Xbox 360, PS3, PC, DS
15 12 FIFA 09 PC, Xbox 360, PS3, PS2, PSP, Wii, DS
16 14 Mario Kart Wii Wii
17 New entry Overlord II PC, PS3, Xbox 360
18 New entry Guitar Hero: Greatest Hits PS2, PS3, Wii, Xbox 360
19 16 Pokémon Platinum DS
20 21 Wii Play Wii
21 18 inFamous PS3
22 13 Indiana Jones and the Staff of Kings DS, PS2, PSP, Wii
23 22 Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games Wii, DS
24 28 Dr Kawashima's Brain Training DS
25 New entry Monster Hunter Freedom Unite PSP
26 25 My Fitness Coach Wii
27 19 ArmA II PC
28 Re-entry MySims Racing DS, Wii
29 17 Guitar Hero: Metallica PS3, Xbox 360
30 32 SEGA Superstars Tennis DS, PS2, PS3, Wii, Xbox 360
31 New entry Dynasty Warriors 6: Empires PS3, Xbox 360
32 20 Resident Evil 5 PS3, Xbox 360
33 26 Carnival: Funfair Games Wii
34 23 Guitar Hero: World Tour Xbox 360, PS3, PS2, Wii
35 29 Football Manager 2009 PC
36 35 Grand Theft Auto IV Xbox 360, PS3, PC
37 New entry Spore: Galactic Adventures PC
38 New entry Tales of Vesperia Xbox 360
39 34 Mystery Stories DS
40 30 Star Ocean: The Last Hope Xbox 360

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

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Comments (17) Latest comment 3 years ago

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  • BabyJesus #1 3 years ago

    Wow, COD4 got some legs on it.

  • asphaltcowboy #2 3 years ago

    Picked up Fight Night 4 yesterday. Crackin' stuff!

  • jaxon58 #3 3 years ago

    Three Guitar Hero games in the charts.
    Sheesh!

  • Gnort #4 3 years ago

    What would really be useful are unit sales, not just a position in the charts, but I believe Chart-Track does not disclose that.

  • andywilkie35 #5 3 years ago

    I bought two new releases on Friday - Fight Night and Tales of Vesperia. Whilst its great to see Fight Night do really well, its a shame that a game of the quality of Tales of Vesperia could only get as high as 38. Still, at least now its coming out on PS3 so more people can get to play it.

  • XdarXideX #6 3 years ago

    Cod 4 dropped into the sale in Blockbuster.. maybe that has something to do with it.

    I really want to like FNR4... but I just dont get on with it after UFC!

  • midnight_walker #7 3 years ago

    I went to find Another Code: R, but could only find it for £39.99 in shops! What the fuck? No wonder it's way down in the charts. I'll get it online I think.

  • JahB #8 3 years ago

    Guarantee wii fit has more innovation than the load of toss they put out.

    you're dead wrong. guitar hero is by far more innovative and fun than wii fit (which is just a crappy collection of mini-games and a scale)

    edit: typo
    Edited by 1 at 29/06/09 @ 12:34

  • secombe #9 3 years ago

    Shame that Lets Tap isn't lighting up the charts, it's got it all going for it...party game, cheap, funky accessory (ok, two boxes), massive potential audience.

    Needs some TV ads to explain the concept, in my opinion.

    Very odd, and a great shame considering it's easily the best party game outside of the obvious Nintendo stuff. I bought mine in Gamestation a few days ago, they said it was the first copy they sold.
    Edited by 1 at 29/06/09 @ 12:38

  • cyacomini #10 3 years ago

    PatAU - I played on Wii Fit for about a week before getting very (very!) bored. It was the last 'game' I bought for my Wii before I sold it - absolute bunch of crap, unless you are less than 10 years old - more than 50 years old or have never owned a proper games console before.

    Guitar Hero on the other hand has hardly been out of my 360 since GH2 arrived - yes, I've been playing GH games for almost 4 years.

    Wii Fit innovative? not really.

  • SirDespard #11 3 years ago

    Wandering around Worcester yesterday, HMV, Game, Gamestation, no Tales of Vesperia to be found anywhere, so no wonder it's languishing

  • rhubarbandcustard #12 3 years ago

    Downloaded Fight Night 4 demo when it was released a couple of weeks ago. Compared to the excellent Fight Night 3 I thought it was too fast, too arcadey, too cartoony. I hated it, so deleted it straight off the hard drive.

    After seeing all the rave reviews for it, I downloaded it again over the weekend out of curiosity. And played it again, and again, and again...

    How could I have been so wrong. Once you adjust to the new style it stands head and shoulders above Fight Night 3. It really is quite brilliant.

  • BillyBrush #13 3 years ago

    Damn when Bobbie (Mr activision boss man) let's a verbal slap enter the internet arena, it reverberates for weeks..

  • lavalant #14 3 years ago

    I'm sure Ghostbusters would have been no1 had it been released on 360/Wii/DS/PC, it's still selling strong for PS3/PSP in UK and was no1 last week in US on 360. Sony have kinda ruined the party with the exclusive deal, sure it will get a PAL release in October but will have to compete with the usual surge of quality games we get around then,sales are unlikely to be as strong.

    An All format release in Europe during the summer drought would have surged sales, combined with the good sales in the USA it might have prompted Atari to make a sequel. As it is the PAL release has been sort of muted, I haven't even seen one advert or poster.

  • miiiguel #15 3 years ago

    Spot the stealth "still bitter with Activision" posts...
    Edited by 1 at 29/06/09 @ 13:17

  • des #16 3 years ago

    Ah Vesperia...at least it charted... awesome game

  • DrBeard23 #17 3 years ago

    I am really dissapointed about this game. I was really looking forward to it and it is ruined.

    I use buttons, i downloaded the demo and found out you could not change it and so i have gave it a good go and i have adapted. I can now fight with the analogue sticks but i can honestly say there is no enjoyment at all.

    I really want to like this game, it looks really awesome but the controls make it feel crap when playing.

    All you do now is smash the stick around throwing punches left right and centre with no skill. For some reason people fail to see that you could not button mash as your stamina would fuck right to hell in FNR3. Now you just stick mash and your stamina hardly goes anywhere and the fact that you control every punch with the one stick it makes it really easy to stick mash. + for everyone who has played the game, do i really need to mentions the haymakers? i mean wtf is with them.

    Anywho sorry for the rant but it kinda pisses me off that i wont be getting this game as i want to like it so much.