This week's top rental charts from U.S. game rental company GameFly, representing the most requested games for the week ending October 6, highlights the popularity surrounding video game titles that have been already released, as well as those that are yet to debut.
The week's most popular titles across all platforms were led by Ubisoft's upcoming
Splinter Cell: Double Agent, which will be released later in October for the Xbox 360, Xbox, PlayStation 2, GameCube and PC. The game will ship in November for the Wii as well. The second most requested game for the week was last week's top requested title, Eidos' multiplatform
Just Cause. The top three titles on the all platform chart for the week were rounded out by Vivendi's recently shipped
Scarface: The World Is Yours.
Looking to the Xbox 360, while the aforementioned
Splinter Cell: Double Agent and
Just Cause topped requests for the platform, it was Activision's upcoming action RPG
Marvel: Ultimate Alliance that rounded out the chart. On the original Xbox,
Scarface was the most requested title, followed by Take-Two's
Family Guy and Eidos'
Just Cause.
Scarface and
Family Guy were also popular titles for the PlayStation 2 as well, as these also ranked as the top two requests for the the platform. Take-Two and Rockstar's upcoming controversial title
Bully rounded out the top three PlayStation 2 requests for the week. Turning to the GameCube, D3P's
Naruto: Clash of Ninja 2 was once again the most requested title for the week, followed by Vivendi's
Legend of Spyro: A New Beginning and THQ's
Avatar: The Last Airbender.
Looking to the Game Boy Advance, Nintendo's
Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Red Rescue Team and
Pokemon Emerald were the top two requested releases for the week, followed by D3P's
Naruto: Ninja Council 2. On the Nintendo DS, it was
Mario vs. Donkey Kong 2: March of the Minis that earned the most requests for the week, followed by
Star Fox: Command and
Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Blue Rescue Team.
Vivendi's
Scarface: Money. Power. Respect. took in the most requests for the PSP for the week, while Activision's upcoming
GUN Showdown ranked second on the chart. Sony's
Gangs of London, which last week served as the most requested title for the PSP, fell two spots on the chart to become the third most requested PSP title for the week.
GameFly requests for titles for the PlayStation 3 this week again saw Ubisoft's
Assassin's Creed as the most popular title for the upcoming platform, followed by Sony's
Resistance: Fall of Man and Activision's
Call of Duty 3. Wii requests were topped by Ubisoft's Wii-exclusive
Red Steel. Nintendo's The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess was the second most requested Wii title for the week, followed by
Super Smash Bros. Brawl.
