UK charts: MW2 untouchable on top News

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?

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!

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.

Glad Lego Rock Band is dying on it's arse.
Stupid idea. Publisher's should learn we are not going to rush out and buy 3 of the same thing in the space of a couple of months

EG should really consider to post the individual formats charts instead, as it's a bit pointless to compare a game released on one system with a game released on several systems.

TOP 40 ENTERTAINMENT SOFTWARE - INDIVIDUAL FORMATS (UNITS)

1 (4) New Super Mario Bros. Wii - Wii - Nintendo
2 (1) Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 - XB360 - Activision
3 (7) Wii Fit Plus - Wii - Nintendo
4 (6) Wii Sports Resort - Wii - Nintendo
5 (2) Assassin's Creed II - XB360 - Ubisoft
6 (3) Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 - PS3 - Activision
7 (5) Assassin's Creed II - PS3 - Ubisoft
8 (10) Mario & Sonic At Olympic Winter Games - Wii - Sega
9 (17) FIFA 10 - XB360 - EA Sports
10 (16) FIFA 10 - PS3 - EA Sports
11 (9) Forza Motorsport 3 - XB360 - Microsoft
12 (11) Mario Kart Wii - Wii - Nintendo
13 (8) Left 4 Dead 2 - XB360 - EA Games
14 (14) Professor Layton And Pandora's Box - DS - Nintendo
15 (15) F1 2009 - Wii - Codemasters
16 (25) Dr Kawashima's Brain Training - DS - Nintendo
17 (18) Mario & Sonic At Olympic Winter Games - DS - Sega
18 (12) Lego Batman: The Videogame - XB360 - Warner Bros. Interactive
19 (13) Pure - XB360 - Disney Interactive Studios
20 (19) Grand Theft Auto Episodes - Liberty City - XB360 - Rockstar
21 (26) Wii Play - Wii - Nintendo
22 (28) Need For Speed: Shift - PS3 - EA Games
23 (23) Wii Fit - Wii - Nintendo
24 (40) Invizimals - PSP - Sony Computer Ent.
25 (34) Littlebigplanet - PSP - Sony Computer Ent.
26 (21) Professor Layton And The Curious Village - DS - Nintendo
27 (27) Uncharted 2: Among Thieves - PS3 - Sony Computer Ent.
28 (36) Cooking Mama 3 - DS - 505 Games
29 (-) Rabbids Go Home - Wii - Ubisoft
30 (24) Style Boutique - DS - Nintendo
31 (29) Football Manager 2010 - PC - Sega
32 (30) Halo 3: ODST - XB360 - Microsoft
33 (-) Mario Kart Ds - DS - Nintendo
34 (-) Lego Indiana Jones 2:Adventure Continues - DS - Lucasarts
35 (-) Gran Turismo - PSP - Sony Computer Ent.
36 (-) Tekken 6 - PS3 - Namco Bandai Games
37 (-) Dj Hero - XB360 - Activision
38 (35) Eyepet - PS3 - Sony Computer Ent.
39 (20) Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 - PC - Activision
40 (-) Wwe Smackdown Vs Raw 2010 - XB360 - THQ

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.

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

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.

i agree secombe, great to see NSMB doing well.

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

@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?!)

COD4 crept back in there?! Wow.

@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.

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.

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.

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.

The Wii version of LRB is only £18 online.

@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.

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.

Where pray tell is OFDR?

"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.

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

DJ Hero not doing badly

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.

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

"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...

>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.

"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.

@KillerMonkey

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

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.

"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.

MW2..the best game ever!!