UK charts: World at War still raging Comments by Robert Purchese

Despite the reviews (saying it's the same game), I'm surprised AC:LGTTC hasn't done better. Pleased, but also surprised.

The more I play L4D the better it gets.

I'm pleased too, because such a lazy game shouldn't be rewarded. However, the model for Nintendo's software sales is totally different to that of Sony and Microsoft. Its games have absurdly long legs, so it's far from over for AC. A few telly adverts, and it'll probably jump into the Top Ten and stay there for months! So I wouldn't write its prospects off just yet.

Im also pleased that the advert for it from the front page has gone, automatically loading sound = big no no. Incredibly annoying.

Every 360 owner in hes/her right mind should get L4D.

I hope Animal Crossing plummets to the bottom of a dark abyss and that all responsible for its PR are fired. Those fucking ads that have been plastered on various sites (including this one :\) were obnoxious to the point that it wouldn't surprise me if they're breaching some kind of privacy law.

I bought L4D on PC at retail (gasp! was far cheaper than Steam...) and am loving it! There are games going on at work during lunchtimes so right now it's the game I want to play :)

So does this mean WW2 is the more popular FPS genre, regardless of quality?

Animal Crossing didn't do too bad on the individual format charts -

01 (01) WII Mario Kart Wii (Nintendo)
02 (03) NDS Dr Kawashima's Brain Training (Nintendo)
03 (02) 360 Call of Duty: World at War (Activision Blizzard)
04 (08) WII Wii Fit (Nintendo)
05 (04) WII Wii Play (Nintendo)
06 (05) PS3 Call of Duty: World at War (Activision Blizzard)
07 (11) 360 Gears of War 2 (Microsoft)
08 (29) 360 Fallout 3 (Bethesda Softworks)
09 (31) 360 Fable 2 (Microsoft)
10 (06) PS3 Resistance 2 (SCEE)
11 (07) WII Wii Music (Nintendo)
12 (22) NDS Nintendogs: Lab & Friends (Nintendo)
13 (__) WII Animal Crossing: Let's go to the City (Nintendo)
14 (17) NDS More Brain Training from Dr. Kawashima (Nintendo)
15 (09) 360 Need for Speed: Undercover (Electronic Arts)
16 (27) WII Guinness World Records: The Videogame (Warner Bros. Interactive)
17 (25) 360 Tomb Raider: Underworld (Eidos)
18 (21) WII Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games (Sega)
19 (16) 360 Kung Fu Panda (Activision Blizzard)
20 (15) 360 Lego Indiana Jones: Original Adventures (LucasArts)
21 (28) PS3 LittleBigPlanet (SCEE)
22 (12) NDS Big Brain Academy (Nintendo)
23 (13) 360 Fifa 09 (Electronic Arts)
24 (23) PS3 Fifa 09 (Electronic Arts)
25 (10) PS3 Need for Speed: Undercover (Electronic Arts)
26 (30) NDS High School Musical 3: Senior Year (Disney Interactive Studios)
27 (19) WII Carnival: Funfair Games (Take 2)
28 (20) 360 Project Gotham Racing 4 (Microsoft)
29 (__) 360 Far Cry 2 (Ubisoft)
30 (26) PS3 Tomb Raider: Underworld (Eidos)
31 (__) NDS Cooking Guide: Can't Decide What To Eat? (Nintendo)
32 (14) PC Football Manager 2009 (Sega)
33 (24) 360 Sega Superstars Tennis (Sega)
34 (34) WII Rayman Raving Rabbids TV Party (Ubisoft)
35 (__) NDS Imagine: Teacher (Ubisoft)
36 (__) WII Shaun White Snowboarding (Ubisoft)
37 (__) 360 Lips (Microsoft)
38 (__) PS3 Fallout 3 (Bethesda Softworks)
39 (35) NDS Mario Kart DS (Nintendo)
40 (__) PS2 Singstar ABBA (SCEE)

Those Animal Crossing adverts on the TV are truly cringe worthy.

Whereas the LBP adverts are quite fun and suit the programme they are shown in.

Its a pity the the Prince of Persia has done so badly in its first week.

Prince of persia is a beautiful joke of a game.With no consequences for anything, it's just not rewarding to play. The story isn't a patch on sands of time so you quickly get bored trying to save Elika's kingdom and start to wish you could just find your donkey and leave. Less than half way through the game, the light seeds become meaningless as you will already have all of the powers.

The quicktimes during combat get old real quick. Especially when, if you miss one, then Elika saves you and seems to systematically heal the enemy at the same time!

"So LBP is going back up the chart eh?
Hear that sony? ADVERTISING WORKS!"

Perhaps...although cutting the price from £45 to £25 probably helped more.

Agreed on the Animal Crossing advert from the frontpage, that made me want to strangle things everytime I came on the site last week.

Interesting to see where POP is and it's idea to 'dumb down'.

It's the kind of game that would not appeal to the 'casual masses' (that's what the Wii is for). So even though the reviews have been mostly good (if not great) all have highlighted it's easiness. Which seems to have alienated the hardcore too.

Tend to trust EG reviews more than others. Did think they got it wrong with both of Rare's Banjo outings but only because I got to play the demo.

Every 360 owner in hes/her right mind should get L4D.

Never has a truer word been spoken.

At least with the majority of people buying the same game they did last year with WW2 clothes on most of the unpleasant people on Live are kept there and the L4D community is a joy to play with (In my personal experience anyway).

Good old Fallout 3, or GOTY as it's sometimes known. I'm glad to see Edge's 7/10 hasn't killed it off totally. :-D

Edge's 7/10 should be shot.

Really, all those critims where really negligible in a game that does so much right.

GOTY by far.

I still haven't played Fallout 3 yet, which is a bit of a crime baring in mind it's like £20 in Gamestation, everyone in work has it has their GOTY too.
But I've still got to finish GOW2, and I was also given a promo copy of Tomb Raider in work, as it was free I feel compelled to give it a bash. Anyone know if it's better than Legends? I've hated every other TR game, but for some reason I didn't mind Legends.
And I'm not sure why someone above said Animal Crossing might do better if it had more TV adverts, I've seen bloody loads of 'em :/ Not as many as Raving Rabbids mind.

Great to see PGR4 shifting more units, awesome game.

Brain Training at number 4? we must be stupid here in the UK :/

Thanks CallousB for the all format charts, I prefer to see them in that method.

Nice to see Fallout 3 going back up :)

so you're one of the survivors at Eidos are you CaptainRentBoy?

I'm hoping TRU keeps on selling all the way to Xmas - I dont work for them (although I might have one stage) - but want to see the company survive. The heavy discounting they are doing can't be good for margins though.

Who would buy a game in the first 2 weeks of release these days? In nearly every case you can get it at least a tenner cheaper very shortly after release.

Who will be the music chart companion, we wonder. Will it be Britney or Leona or Take That or Katy Perry? Or maybe Paul McCartney, who still manages to look like a cheeky boy even though he has jowls.

The winner of X-Factor, obviously. Which sadly won't be the glorious Danny E.

Good old Fallout 3, or GOTY as it's sometimes known. I'm glad to see Edge's 7/10 hasn't killed it off totally. :-D

That boost is most likely because of Gamestation and other shops slashing it's price. I took full advantage of it and my mum's pleased that she doesn't have to put any effort into Christmas shopping now.

"Ubisoft hopeful Prince of Persia spent its first week way down at 30."

Pleased to hear it.

Man, the poms really do love their Need for Speed, no matter how crap it has become.

nice to see Fable 2 coming back up the charts... i bet the fact that it was under £20 at Gamestation was the main reason

Great to see Wii Music still in the top 30; I suspect this will be another long time seller.

"Great to see Wii Music still in the top 30"

Yeah, especially if you hate games and want to see the industry slide into a pit of stupidity.