UK charts: MW2 untouchable on top

By Robert Purchese Published 30 November, 2009

LEGO Rock Band off to a blocky start.

Activision's Modern Warfare 2 has topped the UK All-Formats chart for a third week and, as December threatens to freeze releases, marches hopefully towards a possible Christmas number one.

The top three are unchanged this week, in fact, as Assassin's Creed II and New Super Mario Bros. Wii stay settled in second and third positions.

FIFA 10 leapt to fourth ahead of a fifth-place Wii Fit Plus, whilst Wii Sports Resort, Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games and Left 4 Dead 2 followed in sixth, seventh and eighth. Speedy drivers Forza Motorsport 3 and F1 2009 rounded out the top 10.

Newcomers were not only absent from the top 10, then, but missing from the entire top 40. Debutants like LEGO Rock Band (22nd in the Xbox 360 chart) have not performed that well.

This Week Last Week Title Platform(s)
1 1 Modern Warfare 2 PC, PS3, Xbox 360
2 2 Assassin's Creed II PC, PS3, Xbox 360
3 3 New Super Mario Bros. Wii Wii
4 6 FIFA 10 PC, PS2, PS3, PSP, Wii, Xbox 360
5 5 Wii Fit Plus Wii
6 4 Wii Sports Resort Wii
7 8 Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games DS, Wii
8 7 Left 4 Dead 2 PC, Xbox 360
9 9 Forza Motorsport 3 Xbox 360
10 11 F1 2009 PSP, Wii
11 12 Mario Kart Wii Wii
12 16 LEGO Indiana Jones 2: The Adventure Continues DS, PC, PS3, PSP, Wii, Xbox 360
13 15 Professor Layton and Pandora's Box DS
14 10 LEGO Batman DS, PC, PS2, PS3, PSP, Wii, Xbox 360
15 18 Need for Speed: Shift PC, PS3, PSP, Xbox 360
16 14 Pro Evolution Soccer 2010 PC, PS3, Xbox 360
17 20 WWE SmackDown vs. RAW 2010 PS3, PS2, PSP, Xbox 360
18 26 Dr. Kawashima's Brain Training DS
19 13 Pure PC, PS3, Xbox 360
20 17 Dragon Age: Origins PC, PS3, Xbox 360
21 35 DJ Hero PS3, Wii, Xbox 360
22 21 Grand Theft Auto: Episodes From Liberty City Xbox 360
23 40 Rabbids Go Home Wii, DS
24 27 LEGO Star Wars: The Complete Saga DS, PS3, Wii, Xbox 360
25 28 Wii Play Wii
26 33 Tekken 6 PS3, Xbox 360
27 23 Football Manager 2010 PC, PSP
28 24 Wii Fit Wii
29 Re-entry Invizimals PSP
30 Re-entry Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games DS, Wii
31 38 LittleBigPlanet PS3, PSP
32 22 Professor Layton and the Curious Village DS
33 19 SingStar: Take That PS2, PS3
34 30 Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare PC, PS3, Wii, Xbox 360
35 37 LEGO Indiana Jones DS, PC, PS2, PS3, Wii, Xbox 360
36 29 Uncharted 2: Among Thieves PS3
37 Re-entry Cooking Mama 3 DS
38 31 Borderlands PS3, Xbox 360
39 25 Style Boutique DS
40 34 Halo 3: ODST Xbox 360

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

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About Robert Purchese

Bertie is Eurogamer's Senior Staff Writer. When he's not hunting down news stories he's often found playing with his kids or gabbling about fantasy games and strange online worlds.

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  • cianchristopher #1 2 years ago

    LEGO Star Wars was cool (I just bought the newly released Complete Saga on PC, a full 2 years after it came out on everything else)...

    But it seems the other LEGO games are a bit pointless, no?

  • Madafunkola #2 2 years ago

    After Beatles RB, GH5, Band Hero, DJ Hero, GH Metallica, Greatest Hits etc... I'm not surprised the LEGO Rock Band is a bit ignored. Oversaturated market!

  • RobotRocker #3 2 years ago

    Market is well too over saturated and some stores didnt even stock Lego RB (My local Asda doesnt have it).

    At the same time. MTV Games always said that they see the RB games as "Long Term" investments rather than panicking looking for revenue on Day 1 like other publishers so I doubt they are that bothered abut it.
    Edited by 1 at 30/11/09 @ 11:35

  • Toothball #4 2 years ago

    I bought Lego Rock Band even though I don't like Lego games. Spent Friday evening playing it with my band. The removal of failure has been amusing as we all just play on Expert and have a laugh when we reach the parts that would bring the song to an early end before. I mostly bought it to be able to export all the songs to the rest of my Rock Band collection though.

    Perhaps it'll a bit better in the next few weeks. Some kind of cheap instrument bundle might have gone well under a number of Christmas trees.
    Edited by 1 at 30/11/09 @ 12:59

  • Teamallstar #5 2 years ago

    This proves that there are still a lot of six year olds and 40 somethings who are buying crappy wii games!

    I'm so happy I sold my wii...

  • Incarta #6 2 years ago

    It's nice to see the top 3 occupied by traditional video games.

  • secombe #7 2 years ago

    Great to see NSMB doing so well, even with the Mario effect I was worried that a good ol' 2D platformer would struggle.

    My Dad even bought it, the last platformer he played was on my Atari 7800. As traditional games go it's about as pure as you can get at the moment.

  • Santino #8 2 years ago

    i agree secombe, great to see NSMB doing well.

    For me its up there with the nes/snes games.

  • Moribundman #9 2 years ago

    @Toothball Aaaaaah. I was going to say it's pretty mental marketing a game presumably for kids ("and the young at heart";) with a tracklist containing 80s and 90s pop and light/glam rock rather than the sort of sugary Girls Aloud crap that they'd probably be in to... Queen, Bowie, Iggy and Lennon for "da kidz?" most bizarre. But the fact that you can export the tracks to "normal Rock Band" and you also have a total piss about version (and the achievements are presumably relatively easy) may just make me pick it up when the price comes down a bit.

    Not that the price ever seems to come down on guitar games (GH2 for £30?!)

  • M_of_the_sys #10 2 years ago

    COD4 crept back in there?! Wow.

  • Toothball #11 2 years ago

    @Moribundman:

    Yeah, the track list definitely seems to have been constructed to appeal to many older games even though the mechanics are clearly designed to allow for a younger crowd. Tracks like The Final Countdown are definitely in there to give the parents something to sing along to. Achievements are pretty easy aside from a couple of the guitar ones. I was trying to use the removal of failure to encourage my band to try playing other instruments more often, but they're not quite sold on that idea yet.

    It does cost an extra 800 points to export all the tracks, but since I paid £30 for the disc this works out as £36 or so for 45 tracks, which isn't all that bad a deal. And I have several friends prepared to pay that much just to get their hands on Ghostbusters.

  • Runcle #12 2 years ago

    Sweet Im going to buy Lego Rock Band for my nephew and nieces for xmas, so hopefully these shit sales will make it cheap in no time.

  • DadsDinner #13 2 years ago

    Weirdly, my primary age kids all know The Final Countdown from exercise sessions in their morning assembly at school. They know all kinds of other stuff from the same era, too, 'cos it's what their teachers have dug out from when they were young.

  • Runcle #14 2 years ago

    Actually all version of Lego Rock Band are 25 quid on the Zavvi website. Im tempted to get it now, but I'm also fancy a gamble to see if it will get cheaper.

  • varsas #15 2 years ago

    The Wii version of LRB is only £18 online.

  • Bravestinsane #16 2 years ago

    @20charactersmax

    +1

    I would like to see individual performance charts as well no bias that way and we can really see what is the best at the moment.

  • CallousB #17 2 years ago

    Sad that RE- Darkside Chronicles didn't chart..but I'm not surprised. No in-store marketing, no tv ads. If not for the Eurogamer banner I would have had no idea it even launched. Compare that to the media blitz RE5 had.

  • jambo74 #18 2 years ago

    Where pray tell is OFDR?

  • des #19 2 years ago

    "I would like to see individual performance charts as well no bias that way and we can really see what is the best at the moment. "

    Don't be lazy just click Chart-Track .
    You have everything there,including weekly archives.

  • Law07 #20 2 years ago

    Why on earth is COD4 still in the charts!? WTF

  • Caspar_Esq. #21 2 years ago

    DJ Hero not doing badly

  • Machiavellian #22 2 years ago

    Why on earth is COD4 still in the charts!? WTF

    Because no matter how much nerd hardcore rage there is on forums, the mass market appeal of MW2 is much greater. Another reason is that MW2 is a excellent game. I know COD has reach the level where it must be hated because a lot of people love it but remember haters are always a majority for games like this even though they are the most vocal.

  • twilight72 #23 2 years ago

    Modern Warfare has sold a truckload of copies. I guess people can't get enough of first person shooters.

  • smelly #24 2 years ago

    "This proves that there are still a lot of six year olds and 40 somethings who are buying crappy wii games! "

    Spoken like a real "mature" teenager...

  • smelly #25 2 years ago

    >i agree secombe, great to see NSMB doing well.

    After finishing it yesterday (well not quite - i still have to get all the coins to open up the star road) - i totally have to agree. Its nice to see a game with CHALLENGE in it as opposed to all these hand holding fps games we see nowadays which can be beaten without even remotely raising your heart rate. It's taken me 16 hours of game time to finish all the worlds, and probably double that (at least) to get all the coins - that's value for money right there!

    Its made me realise how "mainstream" and "casual" a lot of games are nowadays - especially fps games. I cant remember a time where i felt as challenged by a "proper" hardcore game like this.. Anyone who calls themselves a "hardcore" gamer needs to play this to discover what "hardcore" really means.

    My ONLY complaint about NSMB is that i'd have preferred to have had lots of hidden worlds/levels on the map as was seen in mario world.

  • KillerMonkey #26 2 years ago

    "Because no matter how much nerd hardcore rage there is on forums, the mass market appeal of MW2 is much greater. Another reason is that MW2 is a excellent game. I know COD has reach the level where it must be hated because a lot of people love it but remember haters are always a majority for games like this even though they are the most vocal."

    He said COD4, silly. That's MW number 1. Not MW2.

  • Machiavellian #27 2 years ago

    @KillerMonkey

    Opps, my bag, I guess I need that reading comprehension class.

  • ogryn #28 2 years ago

    When I went into Game on Friday to buy Lego Rock Band they didn't even have it out on the shelves. The only sign of it was a poster behind the counter saying it was released today (27th).

    When I asked the assistant said "Oh, is it out today?" and went out the back to get me a copy. I'm surprised it didn't come out in a brown paper bag for me to take home.

    Shame it hasn't sold that well here as it seems the most British-centric music game to date.

  • Xerx3s #29 2 years ago

    "I know COD has reach the level where it must be hated because a lot of people love it but remember haters are always a majority for games like this even though they are the most vocal."

    Yes because people must either love it or hate it because it is popular. Seriously.

  • gradevole75 #30 2 years ago

    MW2..the best game ever!!

  • james-mw3-mw3 #31 7 months ago

    It's funny that Modern Warfare 3 had a major amount of leaked information revealed by the press. I'm thinking that Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 leak was intentional; There wasn't any leak for this Call of Duty game, nor MW3!